How to make a barbecue for home and summer cottages?

To cook meat over a fire, many people use ready-made metal barbecues. But such a product can deteriorate rather quickly. It is easy to prevent this, it is enough to make a kebab maker yourself.

This concept came to us from the Caucasus. If you delve into the history of the device, you will notice that the invention of the barbecue is attributed to the United States. However, there are a lot of archaeological sources from the time of the Ancient East indicating that this is an oriental term. Its approximate value is a rounded copper brazier. They usually had covers and carry handles. When making a barbecue with your own hands, you should remember a number of features related to safety and other important aspects.

To begin with, consider the features and benefits of a barbecue with a roof. It makes it possible to apply it in any weather, which is very important for areas with unpredictable and changeable conditions. Such a product can be both stationary and portable.

Near such a large barbecue with protection from the weather, you can always keep warm, which is a very important factor. It should not be forgotten that it is necessary to locate the shashlik maker away from a residential building, plants and easily flammable materials. To do this, the area in the area where the barbecue is installed is cleared of plants, the ground around can be laid out with paving slabs and surrounded by a small metal fence.

It should be said that cooking meat on an open fire is much tastier and healthier than on a regular stove.

To begin with, let's figure out the general classification of various barbecue makers and draw up a brief description of them.

• Brazier - this is a metal box with high walls, on which skewers or a grill are installed. Under the latter, there is usually a heating stand, into which charcoal and ash are poured. The product is mounted on metal legs and can be easily disassembled.
• Grill - differs from the first in a round shape and a stationary grill with a lid. Products are baked in it. Sometimes electric.
• B-B-Q - a complicated version of the previous model. In addition to the grill and skewers, it also uses a skewer. It is usually placed on the site.

• Kebab maker - convenient utensils for cooking meat. It can be electric and used indoors.
• Smokehouse - a metal box with a lid, the bottom of which is covered with sawdust. When they are heated, smoke is formed, which gives the products a specific aroma.

It should be noted that barbecue makers for summer cottages and at home are both professional and amateur, whipped up. Among the home-made options, one can note designs from a metal tin can, from a barrel, or even from a garden wheelbarrow.

One of the varieties of barbecue is an electric BBQ grill. An electric shashlik maker is a device used for heat treatment of meat. Due to the rotating mechanism, the meat is cooked evenly.According to the method of arrangement of skewers, such barbecues are horizontal and vertical.

One of the criteria for choosing a kebab maker is her mobility. This device for cooking meat can be either stationary, or portable or portable.

The stationary barbecue is popular in suburban areas. In this case, you can make a real work of art with forged elements from an ordinary barbecue grill.

The portable grill is often used on outdoor trips. This folding design is very mobile, but at the same time it has its own drawbacks. Namely, it is impossible to cook a large amount of food in a short time.

If you need a barbecue for an apartment, and you are going to cook meat on the balcony, then in this case a small and foldable option is well suited.

As for the barbecue, they are also divided into mobile and stationary. There are also gas barbecues, which are mostly used in public catering places.

The dimensions and design of a kebab maker can vary greatly depending on why and where it is needed. It can be mini, medium or large in size. It all depends on the destination and location. The main shape of the grill for cooking meat is rectangular. But you can always think of something more interesting. From a variety of materials at hand, be it an old cart or a metal barrel, you get a unique-looking creation.

It must be emphasized that, according to customer reviews, an electric vertical shashlik maker is very convenient and quick if you want to cook meat quickly and for a large company at home. However, an ordinary barbecue is best suited for going out into nature.

If we analyze the rating of manufacturers of electric BBQ grills in terms of price and quality ratio, then you can make the following list:

1. Kitfort KT-1405;
2. Maxwell MW-1990 ST;
3. Smile GB 3313;
4. Kitfort KT-1402.

When choosing a kebab maker, you must proceed from the purpose for which you need it and where exactly you will most often use it. You should also decide on the ratio of price and quality criteria. Not always the highest quality and best barbecue grill will cost more than all the others.

When choosing a barbecue, you should understand what metal it is made of. If this model has aluminum legs, then such a grill will be unreliable. After all, an unstable brazier is dangerous.

If you decide to make a brazier yourself, then you should pay attention to a number of aspects: depth, air holes, dimensions of the brazier and recesses for skewers.

The depth of the barbecue allows you to determine the right amount of heat for the meat and position it at the required height. Air vents determine a constant flow of air, which keeps the heat at a given level.

First of all, drawings are prepared. Then you should choose the type of construction. After all of the above, they are determined with the choice of building material.

When making a kebab maker with their own hands, they usually use heat-resistant brick, which is a more common building material. Brick shashlik makers can also be covered with ceramic tiles on top. Also, if necessary, clay mortar can be used, which significantly reduces the consumption of cement.

When building a brick barbecue, you will also need such building bulk materials as cement, sand, clay, medium crushed stone, boards and reinforcing bars.

In the manufacture, you will probably use the following tools: grate, ruler and tape measure, bayonet shovel, spatula and trowel, concrete mixer, sand sieve, building level, shovel, as well as a container for mixing mortar. You will also need a rubber mallet and string.

It should be noted that if you use an electric BBQ grill, then the main component when choosing will be the heating element inside it, which will determine the quality of cooking meat.

At the stage of calculations and building a circuit, you can turn to ready-made options or try to make it yourself. At the same time, do not forget about fire safety standards.

During construction, you should pay attention to the type of brick. Then, step by step, we begin to fulfill all the necessary prescriptions.

The kebab maker is installed on the foundation. To do this, you need to dig a pit two bayonets deep with a shovel, having previously cleared the site. Then pegs are driven in and the rope is pulled. The bottom is covered with sand and gravel, which are then tamped. With the help of boards, it is necessary to build the formwork.

Then they begin to make a brick base for the future kebab maker. It is also necessary to choose a place, taking into account factors: remoteness from various buildings and plants, the presence of a water source nearby.

It is recommended to equip the area around the barbecue for a comfortable pastime. For this, the place around the barbecue can be laid out with tiles, a gazebo, benches and the like can be built.

For convenient operation of the barbecue, retractable refractory sheets are placed in the bottom, on which ash and soot will be poured.

For information on how to make a barbecue with your own hands, see the video below.