How often do you braai?

How often do you braai?

  • Once per week, over weekends

    Votes: 78 24.8%

  • Twice per week

    Votes: 31 9.9%

  • Three times per week

    Votes: 13 4.1%

  • More than three times per week

    Votes: 10 3.2%

  • Every night

    Votes: 6 1.9%

  • Only when I get invited over for a braai

    Votes: 32 10.2%

  • I don't ever braai

    Votes: 21 6.7%

  • I don't eat meat

    Votes: 3 1.0%

  • Less than once a week

    Votes: 100 31.8%

  • Other

    Votes: 20 6.4%
  • Total voters
    314
Thanks to load shedding that is the gift that keeps on giving, we have to braai every night. How else do you cook food? Gas stove is nice until it's not.
 
Hamster said:
You should get yourself a rocket stove, but one of those fancier ones with the clay shell (EcoZoom, Mabula etc).

Fuel efficient, add a cast iron pot or pan and you can cook your regular old Knorr Boloroni on it, boils a camp kettle very quickly. Had to use it a lot when we moved into a phase 1 of a new complex and electricity was a problem (not even loadshedding at the time).

One of those little butane gas stoves are way cheaper and efficient (hamburgers, potjies... one of those gas canisters lasts for a very long time) but the real fire stove is way more fun to use.
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I have a gas hob; and a wonder bag; season food, bring to boil; pop into wonder bag and a few hours later....voila
 
pinball wizard said:
Afford? Beef is still one of the most cost effective sources of dense nutrition available to us. Probably the most cost effective.
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When you are a one income household, and you wish to be frugal; cheap cut's it is. I do buy beef/cuts when on special. You canot braai a cheap beef cut; unless you marinade the #$%^ out of it ;-)
 
WitchyPoo said:
When you are a one income household, and you wish to be frugal; cheap cut's it is. I do buy beef/cuts when on special. You canot braai a cheap beef cut; unless you marinade the #$%^ out of it ;-)
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I don't see much saving between a R99/kg piece of old shoe leather and a R130/kg piece of something edible.

When it comes to beef, don't let the grass fed clowns make you confused. There's little difference in taste and zero difference in nutrition.
 
WitchyPoo said:
When you are a one income household, and you wish to be frugal; cheap cut's it is. I do buy beef/cuts when on special. You canot braai a cheap beef cut; unless you marinade the #$%^ out of it ;-)
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A good marinade, can be made from tomato sauce, worchester sauce, sunflower oil, spice of choice. I like origanum and basil.
 
I use to braai 4 or 5 times a week
Braaid 26 times in February 2023
Gatvol after that
I think since then Ive braaid twice at the dam by my caravan.
 
pinball wizard said:
I don't see much saving between a R99/kg piece of old shoe leather and a R130/kg piece of something edible.

When it comes to beef, don't let the grass fed clowns make you confused. There's little difference in taste and zero difference in nutrition.
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Beef short rib is fantastic to braai. Not the thin little pieces you get at P&P. Ask a butcher to cut a 100mm wide section across the bone. Thickest and fattest he has. Cut chunks between the bones. Should give you 300 - 400g pieces. Make a simple BBQ sauce and cover. Into oven at low heat for a couple hours. Then out and braai over high heat to give a bit of colour. Can usually pick it up for about R90/kg.

Agree about the grass fed. Most beef is grass fed. Grain is just to finish the meat.
 
Maurice Kitching said:
Beef short rib is fantastic to braai. Not the thin little pieces you get at P&P. Ask a butcher to cut a 100mm wide section across the bone. Thickest and fattest he has. Cut chunks between the bones. Should give you 300 - 400g pieces. Make a simple BBQ sauce and cover. Into oven at low heat for a couple hours. Then out and braai over high heat to give a bit of colour. Can usually pick it up for about R90/kg.

Agree about the grass fed. Most beef is grass fed. Grain is just to finish the meat.
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Exactly.
 
pinball wizard said:
That's why I only highlighted your gas escapades. I'll give the two times at the dam as actually braaing.
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Actually, my neighbour at the dam has a Weber Q1000 and we've used that a good few times
I stocked up on 200 pieces of black wattle on Saturday
Its stacked neatly under my bed
Should be bonedry in a few weeks time
 
pinball wizard said:
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Just like red meat is not the cause of high cholesterol and heart disease.

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I like the term "slightly less" in the oil article.
 
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