How often do you braai?

[Hamster]

Geez the Dutch are a funny people. While I'm braai'ing my neighbours are having a fat kuier with their friends, kids are playing hide and seek and stuff, laughing, everybody just having a good time in this reasonably good Saturday weather.

Then I hear something something "eten vanaand" and everybody goes home, everything is quiet, shows over, everybody eats at home.

Stereotypes exist for a reason, fokken sad man.

ANYWAY, the wife poured me a whiskey...



I guess that's me for the evening.

 

[Fulcrum29]

Geez the Dutch are a funny people. While I'm braai'ing my neighbours are having a fat kuier with their friends, kids are playing hide and seek and stuff, laughing, everybody just having a good time in this reasonably good Saturday weather.

Then I hear something something "eten vanaand" and everybody goes home, everything is quiet, shows over, everybody eats at home.

Stereotypes exist for a reason, fokken sad man.

ANYWAY, the wife poured me a whiskey...

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I guess that's me for the evening.

The amount of times neighbours have come over to join a braai in my lifetime is countless, but things have changed here since the pandemic.

 

[Mzezman]

Geez the Dutch are a funny people. While I'm braai'ing my neighbours are having a fat kuier with their friends, kids are playing hide and seek and stuff, laughing, everybody just having a good time in this reasonably good Saturday weather.

Then I hear something something "eten vanaand" and everybody goes home, everything is quiet, shows over, everybody eats at home.

Stereotypes exist for a reason, fokken sad man.

ANYWAY, the wife poured me a whiskey...

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I guess that's me for the evening.

Huuuge whiskey that

 

[Hamster]

Huuuge whiskey that

Bruh...

 

[Harmonic]

Bruh...

I know. That's still peasant level. When you start drinking whiskey out of a win(e) glass...

 

[netstrider]

Often enough. Never less than once and often 3+.

It does depend though. On average probably 3.

 

[netstrider]

I suppose with loadshedding being a constant thing, braaing is a good replacement for cooking these days.

overcome, adapt and survive living in SA.

It is who we are, after all.

 

[netstrider]

Julle mag kak ook braai vir die van julle wat nie vleis eet nie.

 

[RiaX]

paper plates/plastic knives+forks=less work. lazy but effective

How you braai on paper plates ?

I'm talking about the grill

 

[carnagelan]

Twice a week. Depending what meat we feel like.

 

[3WA]

How you braai on paper plates ?

I'm talking about the grill

Weber Smokey Joe, or similar sized braai. It's small, so you can only fit enough meat for two or three people, but the grill fits into a standard dishwasher, which is awesome.

If you have two kids, one of them has to go hungry.

 

[bwana]

How you braai on paper plates ?

I'm talking about the grill

What about the grill?

Weber Smokey Joe, or similar sized braai. It's small, so you can only fit enough meat for two or three people, but the grill fits into a standard dishwasher, which is awesome.

You wash the grid?

That's what fire is for.

 

[Hamster]

grill fits into a standard dishwasher

I dunno if I'm upset or impressed right now

 

[3WA]

You wash the grid?

That's what fire is for.

Damn right, I wash it. Nothing better than slapping your meat on shiny stainless steel.

 

[elf_lord_ZC5]

Damn right, I wash it. Nothing better than slapping your meat on shiny stainless steel.

Nah!

You light a good fire, put the grill on the fire, burn it clean - then lift to the required hieght, dust of and put your meat on it.

Clean shiny grill like you use the meat burns and sticks to it, bad, bad bad.

 

[Hamster]

Clean shiny grill like you use the meat burns and sticks to it, bad, bad bad.

Your meat sticks to your grid because jy fokken peter met die ding terwyl hy nog gaar word.

 

[3WA]

Clean shiny grill like you use the meat burns and sticks to it, bad, bad bad.

This:

Your meat sticks to your grid because jy fokken peter met die ding terwyl hy nog gaar word.

 

[elf_lord_ZC5]

Your meat sticks to your grid because jy fokken peter met die ding terwyl hy nog gaar word.

EKSKUUS!!

 

[Maurice Kitching]

Afford? Beef is still one of the most cost effective sources of dense nutrition available to us. Probably the most cost effective.

Always amazed how few people have figured this out. Along with the fact that ingestion of animal fat is not the cause of heart disease, and red meat does not cause cancer, kidney damage or gout.

 

[Maurice Kitching]

I must say that I am privileged to pay close to cost for lamb, and not any lamb, Hantam lamb, but the farmers up there are now also gaming with beef on a larger scale. I also have easy access to very well-priced venison from the other side of my family, without asking, they will send some meat my way. I get the rest of my meat from a local butcher or sometimes from Food Lover's, where the butcher knows his stuff and the prices are reasonable.

Couple guys were laughing at me the other day when I mentioned I drive via Calvinia to Joburg from Cape Town so I can fill two large cool boxes with lamb. Also a great retailer for Mermeville's butchery in Somerset West. They'll phone me when they have a nice lamb coming in. AB2 or 3. Last time they phoned me when they had a tweetand coming in, the butcher kept it back for a week to fatten a bit more and gave me a discount for the wait.

I buy almost all of my poultry from Lazena or Woolworths, and again, not unreasonably priced given the climate.

Elgin factory shop specials sometimes work out very well too.

Just made contact with a pork producer in Paarl. Incredibly priced and some of the best meat I've braaied in years.

I am very good friends with some wholesale fruit and vegetable wholesalers. Yes, I have Portugeuse friends. Good bartering on this front.

Wood I get from the sawmills, at a good price, but you have to load up. Since I am nested close to the wine lands, when the vineyard is pulled, I am quick to load up on that too. It burns quick and hot, but it gets meat done to perfection.

This is the one thing that makes it slightly expensive. Braai wood has become crazy expensive. My last 1000 pieces was R1,750. Used to be able to buy in Malmesbury for R1,200, but they've run out of wood to cut.