Chargrilling last Friday

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Used my converted-to-charcoal gas chargrill last Friday as we had friends round. Couldn't do anythign at all interesting as we're more skint than a very skint person but has Lincolnshire sausages, chicken breast and our local butchers' lamb burgers. Due to my new-found ability to control the temperature of the grill (leaving half of it empty of coals) and closing the lid to let things smoke, the flavour was commented on by all who ate.
I intend to have a few more chargrills this year so's I can practice longer and slower cooking, plus which I'll have finished my stainless steel 'tribute' (can't say copy, I'll get into trouble:-D ) charcoal lighting chimney and will want to test it! It's amazing how leaving the lid down can make such a difference to flavour, even when chargrilling, so I'm more determined than ever to get a smoker built and tested

 

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Just curious... What is the availability of beef and pork across the water? We take them both for granted around here.

A couple of weeks ago I bought a beef chuck roast (Chuckie) for $1.99 per lb

1.99 USD = 0.978853 GBP

And pork butt was $.99 a lb = 0.486991 GBP


1 lb = 0.45359237 kilograms

How do your prices compare?


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^^Bump^^

I really am curious about this I know there are a couple of UK folks reading the forum.

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2.49 a # over THIS ocean!

 

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I'll take the prices to my local butchers and find out for you Fil. Off the top of my (empty) head, more expensive, but I'll double check.:-D
I'm not very clued up on names of cuts of meat, both here and in the US, have a look here, they've some prices listed.

 

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Thanks Browser!!

I really hope I converted that wrong. What I got was aprox $14.50 a lb for Prime English Sirloin :shock: My market has it on sale (top sirloin not sure what the difference is) for $2.99

And about $5.00 for a lb of pork loin steaks. Here I can get uncut pork loin for 4.29 (not on sale and seems high to me).

I totally understand why you had chicken and sausage!!!
BBQing sure would be different for me if I lived over there :biggrin:

Thanks for the info.

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Haven't had a chance to really look at their prices meself but you're probably right, we do pay more for meat. Probably something to do with the fact that our supermarkets (where most people like to get their meat plastic packed ) buy whatever meat's cheapest, driving British farmers out of business and making us import-reliant. On that webpage i linked you to they've just started selling a 'barbecue pack' for £50 (about $100 at current exchange rates), how does that compare for value compared to what you'd pay?
p.s. what the hell has happened to the US$? I looked at currency values not a week ago and it was $1.50-odd to the pound, now it's over $2.00?

 

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And they also do a roast meats pack, again for £50.

 

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Its a shame ya almost have to go to the bank and take out a loan for a BBQ cook.

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