Welcome to Australia's longest-established and most popular site devoted to outdoor cooking. This site has three major aims - to help you choose the right barbecue for your needs, explain how it can be used to turn out the best meals you've ever tasted and to assist you with your quest to find your own place in the cosmology that is modern barbecue.

Blue on Fuel and Blue Clues will give you all the information you need to find YOUR perfect barby - not the salesperson's perfect barby.

Cordon Blue gives advice about grilling, roasting and slow smoking in different types of barbecues and provides recipes featuring all five food groups - beef, pork, poultry, lamb and seafood.

Blue Smoke shows how to add a unique flavour to food by using smoke from Australian-grown hardwood chips.

And don't miss Blue and the history of the Australian barby and Blue Words. These will lead you towards discovering where you stand in the parallel universe that is barbecue.

Blue Books and Blue Links have been included for the more serious students of the barbecue arts.

If you have any questions that are not answered by the information in this site or simply wish to embark on a life-changing philosophical discourse then click on Talk to Blue.

Enjoy,

BBQ Blue
Brisbane
Australia

PS. Sprinkled throughout this site you will find comments attributed to Mrs Blue - my devoted companion of more than 25 years. Ignore them.

A WORD OF WARNING

In our brave new globalised *sanitised* world it has become necessary to spell out what should be bleeding obvious. Consequently, visitors to this site need to be aware that just about anything associated with barbecuing can be dangerous. Red hot metal, compressed gas, flaming coals and meat sitting at room temperature all have the potential to become lethal.

Properly maintained equipment and a reasonable attention span are prerequisites. Don't attempt to barbecue if you regularly lose arguments with your Ken and Barbie dolls, if you're drunk or exploring recreational pharmaceuticals.

Never barbecue during a fire ban, indoors or near anything flammable and don't leave children alone for a split second with a barbecue. The temptation to try to burn anything at hand (twigs, leaves, pets, siblings) is overwhelming.