GRILLMASTER BARBECUE CLASS

Wanting to grill something more interesting than bangers and drumsticks? Or do them, but better, with total mastery of fire? This is the class for you - it’ll take you from relative novice to confident barbecuer with a range of techniques at your disposal.

This class is all about direct grilling, where we light a fire and cook the food directly above. Relaxed, fun, instructive and delicious, with plenty to eat - it is a great way to learn.

• Choice of barbecue and adapting your cooking to different equipment
• The best fuel and failsafe lighting techniques
• Temperature control and adapting to the British climate
• The key cooking grilling technique: 2-zone cooking
• Use of rubs, marinades, cooking sauces and spritzes
• Barbecue safety - food hygiene and fires

• Grilled fish (catch of the day - the best fish available from our fishmonger on the day of your class)
• Spatchcocked quail with pomegranate molasses cooking sauce
• Turkish-style adana kebab (lamb)
• Grilled skirt or hanger steak
• Grilled seasonal veg
• Barbecued fruit

The ingredients are prepared as a demo, and participants work in pairs to to look after each barbecue, 2 people to a barbecue. Everyone cooks everything. The barbecues we use for this class are a mixture of Kamado Joe's Classic Joe (similar to the Big Green Egg) and Weber kettle barbecues. If you wish to learn using one of these models in particular please contact us before booking the class as the numbers of certain barbecues may be limited on the day of the class.

• Tea, coffee and a bacon roll on arrival
• All the ingredients and fuel for the class (we do not want you to go hungry!)
• A shared barbecue for each pair of participants.
• Notes and recipes for you to keep (electronic format)
• Alcoholic drinks - available to purchase