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All the Ingredients for a Great BBQ
2008-05-30 06:16:00
The third part of our art of char grilling series is all about the perfect ingredients to a triumphant BBQ. The recipe for a successful BBQ is as follows: Ingredients Suitable BBQ accessories such as long-handled tongs, a fork, a spatula, a sharp knife, a basting brush, serving platters, a grill brush, good quality protective gloves for ...
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Top 12 BBQ Tips from the Experts
2008-05-22 03:13:00
Part two of our art of char grilling series is all about those fantastic BBQ tips from the experts in the industry that may just turn your next BBQ into the best you?ve ever had! 1. According to Steven Raichlen, storing your Heat Beads® BBQ Briquettes in a metal can with a tight fitting lid prevents them ...
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How not to get burnt while playing with fire?
2008-05-15 08:15:00
This week is the first of a four part series of blogs on the art of char grilling. We will begin with an adaption from the eNewsletter of the master himself ? Steven Raichlen, on grilling safety. You will all hopefully learn a lot more about char grilling over the next four weeks so that ...
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Heat Beads® BBQ Briquettes Guest Appearance at Steven Raichlen?s BBQU
2008-05-08 02:34:00
Coming up! Heat Beads® will be represented at Steven Raichlen?s BBQ University (June 1 to 4 and June 4 -7) in Colorado Springs, by Lee Gilmour, Managing Director of Australian Char, who will spend two days with the famous grill master, learning the secret art of char grilling, the American way. What?s more, Steven was ...
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Win with this year’s annual BBQ Lovers Survey
2008-05-02 07:27:00
Terrific Winter Warmers to be won! Have you all received our eNewsletter this month and participated in our annual Heat Beads® BBQ Lovers Survey ? If not, you can become a subscriber by clicking here and be in the draw to win one of ten Winter Warmer packs of the latest DVD’s and CD’s. Get cosy warm while you watch four of the latest blockbuster movies on DVD - Atonement, Southland Tales, American Gangster and Golden Age, and four of the latest CDs from popular artists such as Brian McFadden, Vanessa Amorosi, Mika and Rihanna! To be in the running, subscribe to our newsletter and complete our quick Heat Beads® BBQ Lovers Survey click here. When you complete the survey, you will automatically enter the draw. Winners will be notified by email by 10th May 2008. * Remember: you must be a subscriber to our eNewsletter to be in the draw Information collated to date shows that 51.5% of respondents are BBQ’ing more than this time last year, and 59.3% are using Heat Beads® BBQ Br...
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Anzac Day ? A great time to bring everyone together around the Heat Beads®
2008-04-24 08:56:00
There will be thousands of BBQ?s fired up across the country this weekend. What could be better after an early start at the dawn service or watching the Anzac Parade on TV? Our Anzac Day weekend kicked off a day early, with a feast of succulent BBQ delights cooked on an innovative little unit we discovered ...
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Women In BBQ?.A Winning Recipe
2008-04-18 05:45:00
Think BBQing is purely a man?s domain? Think again. 67% of respondents to our 2007 Heat Beads® BBQ Lovers Survey were female. More and more women are not just stuck in the kitchen making the salads but lighting up the Heat Beads® BBQ Briquettes and getting involved in all the action! And here?s living proof, ...
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Nothing like it? goat, lamb and beef BBQ recipes for a master of the char g
2008-04-11 05:39:00
John Ryan and his family will soon be off to hit the huge BBQ circuit, in where else but Kansas City, US of A of course! Although John will be working in IT part-time, his main passion will be learning to be a certified judge for the Kansas City Barbeque Sanctioned Events Circuit. If you ...
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Cooking up a BBQ Recipe Storm
2008-04-03 07:38:00
It is an ill wind that blows no good? or so they say! After a false start to this year?s Melbourne International Flower and Garden Show when gale force winds lasted five hours and forced closure on the first day, it was business as usual on day two at the Royal Exhibition Buildings and Carlton ...
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Winners are grillers
2008-03-27 03:17:00
The response to our Steven Raichlen Book Competition was searing. Thank you to all those passionate, apron clad, tong wielding folk who took the time to tell us why they love to BBQ with Heat Beads® BBQ Briquettes. This was our winning entry: Couldn’t stand the heat… So I exited the kitchen, Fired up the Heat Beads, And char-grilled ...
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Easter BBQ Recipe
2008-03-20 07:33:00
In case you blinked after Christmas, Easter ?s already here. It?s another great time to gather with family and friends around a Heat Beads BBQ® Briquettes fuelled barbecue. A great recipe idea for Good Friday, for the traditionalist in all of us, is Stavros’ (Stavros of Stavros Tavern in Alber Park) very special calamari recipe from the ...
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Grill like a pro ? Kansas City style, of course!
2008-03-14 05:40:00
Have you ever been deep in thought in the midst of smoke rising from your Heat Beads® BBQ Briquettes barbecue and fantasised about becoming a professional griller? The US professional circuit kicks off in Kansas City this weekend (March 14-15) with the North Kansas City Missouri State BBQ Championship. The state championships work on a system ...
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Fine values and dedication brings rewards to the Heat Beads® Company
2008-03-07 05:05:00
Actively involved in supporting the community, Australian Char was publicly recognised when it was awarded the Greater Dandenong Chamber of Commerce Corporate and Social Responsibility Award. Manufacturer of the famous Heat Beads® BBQ Briquettes, the company was also a finalist in the categories of Export, Employment, and Service Excellence. A reputation for longevity, even temperature and ...
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What to do for Dinner on Sunday? - Chicken Brine BBQ Recipe
2008-02-29 07:22:00
This week we have a particularly special blog written by a guest author, Phil Hartcher who has the enviable job of demonstrating BBQs for Weber Australia every Saturday for the 3 months leading up to Christmas. While we were out grocery shopping last Sunday I asked ?Her Indoors? or, more commonly known as ?SWMBO? (She ...
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Lessons from the Master in BBQ
2008-02-22 07:08:00
Have you ever dreamed of having your char-grilling skills perfected by lessons with a master so that you may be King or Queen at your next big BBQ? If you are going to be in the US in June this year, you may very well get that chance. The US has long been considered one ...
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Steven Raichlen does it Aussie style
2008-02-15 05:06:00
Ominous warnings from the weather bureau were prophetic, when world leading BBQ identity Steven Raichlen, joined thirty fellow char-grill enthusiasts for a unique tasting indulgence at the Gasworks Art Park in Albert Park last week. Not even a torrential downpour could mar the ten course Degustation Char Grill BBQ tasting organised on Steven’s behalf by ...
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Win ? BBQ books that will make you an instant expert
2008-02-01 06:59:00
It is a time-honoured tradition in backyards, and at parks and beaches across Australia, to hear the sizzle of a barbecue, the smell of sausages, seafood, steak and other delectable offerings wafting from the char grill. One man eager to learn about this tradition and advancements of cooking over live hot coals and BBQ briquettes ...
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You might like to know about?
2008-01-22 07:44:00
These few fun things we’ve found! For snag lovers: Love putting a sizzle in your sausage, but worried about the fat content and quality of the meat? Then this video on DIY sausage-making is for you! If that’s got you feeling inspired, there are many more sausage recipes for you to try here. For bacon lovers: Two guys with a ...

Test your BBQ IQ
2008-01-15 04:17:00
We stumbled upon this BBQ quiz on The BBQ Guy’s blog. Test your knowledge of American regional BBQ traditions. (They take their BBQ-ing very seriously in America, as you can see from this previous post.) So, where is brisket king? How do they like their ribs in Austin, Texas? In which region is ‘white’ BBQ sauce ...

New troubleshooting section at HeatBeads.com
2008-01-14 23:01:00
Happy 2008 BBQ fans! Sometimes in cooking (as in life), things don’t turn out exactly as planned. Now you can find the answers as to why (well, in relation to cooking, not life!) right away at the Heat Beads® FAQs page. We’ve added fresh troubleshooting content to address problems you might have while BBQ-ing, to help ...
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Cooking in the mountains with Heat Beads® briquettes
2007-12-20 06:54:00
One of our office Head Beads ® briquettes fans recently spent a weekend camping in the Grampians with friends. But there were no canned baked beans in sight for these intrepid travellers! Instead, they whipped up a delicious Lamb and Red Wine Casserole in a camp oven powered by Head Beads® briquettes - and videoed the ...
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2007 Triple R Melbourne BBQ Day - your winning recipies!
2007-12-10 02:36:00
Nothing can deter Heat Beads®’s John Higgs from the pursuit of the perfectly-cooked snag… even a broken arm! A scorching summer day was a fitting way to kick off BBQ season at the annual Triple R Melbourne BBQ Day, sponsored by Heat Beads® briquettes. As usual, before the big event we asked you to send in ...
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2007 Triple R Best Char-Grill Recipe WINNER! - Beef BBQ Teriyaki
2007-12-02 02:13:00
Recipe - Eve-Lynne Fairhall Serves 4. Ingredients: · 1 kg chuck steak · 1/2 cup soy sauce · 1-2 tbsp fresh grated ginger · 1/3 cup sake or dry sherry or any dry wine · 1 tbsp brown or white sugar (brown gives richer flavour) · 2-3 cloves smashed garlic Method: · Trim steak and cut into suitable portion size or cubes for kebabs · Marinate in mixture of soy sauce, ginger, wine, sugar ...
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2007 Triple R Best Char-Grill Recipe finalist - Eggplant Dolmades
2007-12-02 01:00:00
Recipe - Brigitte Stone Ok so this is a totally to-die-for light lunch, side dish or could even be developed into a main course it?s that damn good!!! Ingredients: · An eggplant (preferably organic and big ? so you get to eat more) · Olive oil (or one of the new tea/chamomile/rice bran/grape seed type oils ? but I looove the ...
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2007 Triple R Best Char-Grill Recipe finalist - Easy, Tasty, Spicy Chook
2007-12-02 00:07:00
Recipe - Anthony Williams Ingredients: · 500 grams of chicken ribs · 2 tbsp tomato paste · 4 tbsp kecap manis (Indonesian sweet soy sauce) · 4 tbsp apple cider vinegar · 4 tsp chilli sambal (go on, try a little more!) Method: Mix all ingredients and marinate for at least a couple of hours or overnight. Shake off excess marinade and cook for about 7 minutes. Rate this recipe: Note: ...
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Top five BBQ songs as voted by you!
2007-11-27 07:48:00
Well, your verdict is in! We put the call out to our Heat Beads® BBQ e-Newsletter subscribers, asking for all-time favourite BBQ tunes. So, here are the top five BBQ songs as nominated by your BBQ-loving peers. #5: U2, Fire #4: The Rolling Stones, Start Me Up #3: Billy Joel, We Didn’t Start The Fire #2: Johnny Cash, Ring Of ...
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Do you have Australia?s Best Char-grill Recipe?
2007-11-20 00:23:00
Heat Beads® briquettes brings you two sizzling summer BBQ competitions - enter now! Competition #1 - Best Char -grill Reci pe : Win a Weber Kettle BBQ and one year?s supply (24 x 4kg bags) of Heat Beads® briquettes Entries close: Wednesday 28th November, 2007 As part of the 6th annual Triple R Melbourne BBQ Day, sponsored by Heat Beads® briquettes, ...
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Congratulations, ?Summer Entertainment Pack? winners
2007-11-15 08:15:00
Congratulations to the lucky winners of the Heat Beads® company’s latest giveaway (in our October e-Newsletter) - a ‘Summer Entertainment Pack ’ from our friends at Warner Music and Village Roadshow Pictures. The following people will be BBQ-ing to the beat of James Blunt’s new CD ‘All The Lost Souls’, and reclining afterwards to enjoy the ...
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Let them eat Black forest cake - straight from the camp oven!
2007-11-14 00:20:00
Rounding off our recent focus on camp oven cooking, here’s a third recipe from camp oven cook extraordinaire, Derek Bullock. If you need a refresher on Derek’s method for cooking with a camp oven using Heat Beads® briquettes, check his previous Sizzle post first. This recipe is for ‘Black forest cream cheese pound cake’. ...
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Cup Day BBQ - gets us grilling!
2007-11-07 01:58:00
They call it the race that stops a nation? so what better time is there to fire up the BBQ?! A glorious spring day in Melbourne provided an excellent opportunity to try new things on the grill. We found a recipe in the November Issue of Super Food Ideas. It’s a simple and quick pork cutlet ...
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