You just found the best solution to our BBQ issue! We did some pretty big work around the house that required us to destroy our garden, so we can't invest on a BBQ this year. This seems like the best option! Thank youuuu
I did it!! Charcoals grey, today I did a pack of pre marinade chilli chicken skewers. This was my first barbecue in my house. I will do it every day till I am better at it. Then I'm going to get my cast iron grate. Thanks Chef John.
I was looking for a DIY stove top grill, using those disposable aluminum baking trays and found this...I just LOVE this idea. My next best option...yeah!
that is a great idea. some folks like gas grills and i do to but sometimes i really crave the charcoal grill taste and that is a quick and easy way to create a 'grill' out of stuff I already have around the house. thank you for the video!!!
Thanks John for your wonderful style. In an insane world, I just relax listening to you like the sun bursting through the clouds. Also definitely going to try this. Maybe with my homegrown sweet corn 😊
Iam from Pakistan. There is lockdown thats why we are close at home looking the Bar B Q ideas for my terrace.. Very simple idea but highly appreciated... Love from Pakistan❤️❤️
Ash from charcoals and from hardwood ash, are a good source of potassium (potash) for your plants (about 3% P). As a very alkaline material, ash can also balance your soil pH if its becoming more acidic. You can also use charcoal / hardwood ash as a soap-making ingredient, or even as a basic soap on its own with water. :)
I love this video, I am returning the metal one i bought yesterday. This is the kind of stuff the Portuguese use and they have one in every house. Thank you chef!
Im brazilian and have a brick one except this one in the video is too low. I make mine way taller so i dont have to bend over so much. Store bought metal grill are for pussies
Chef Jon, you are brilliant!! I never could have imagined something like that could have ever worked. Thank you so much for sharing this fantastic idea. No matter where you are or where you go, you can always enjoy a BBQ. Cheers 😀😀
Hi Chef John. This is such a great idea. One thing I'd like to point out about the ashes. If you use commercial charcoal briquettes, the ashes are BAD for soil because there are additives in the charcoal that are not good for plants. However, natural wood charcoal is a different story. The ashes from natural wood charcoal is great!
totally doing this for our backyard! we have a smoker in need of some TLC and this grill will do the trick while we figure out how to revive it. cheers!
If you want it to be more than "temporary" spend the money for fire rated bricks. They will hold up. General bricks will crack, flake, and eventually fall apart from the heating and cooling. Use general bricks to make it waist high, then use fire bricks to make the BBQ pit.
Thanks chef John! I heat my house with a wood burning stove and have often thought it would be great to simply scoop out some glowing embers for a quick grilling. However I never attempted this because my thinking was to place the embers in my Weber kettle grill which I knew was too big to make the plan efficient. I could only scoop out so many embers and run them outside while still keeping the fire roaring inside. Now seeing this video I know my instant wood fired grill can become a reality very easily! I have an old pot to carry the hot embers, an old grill grate, and old bricks so I can be in business in 5 minutes. I cant believe I did not think of this myself, but then again I did think to watch your video, so I'm not totally stupid after all.
Thanks to you Chef John again! I have been practising using your Brick Hibachi grill, even if I wasn't cooking. I have got the heat distribution physics right by now. Today I followed a recipe how to grill sardines Portuguese style ( with the heads on). I want to thank you from the depths of my heart for making this video. I have enjoyed what I probably wouldn't have enjoyed with an expensive kettle charcoal grill costing in excess of £200.00. Thank you once again.
Not too long ago (a couple of weeks ago), I cleared out my backyard from months of neglect and overgrown weeds. Now, I have space to try and make my own brick grill! Thanks for the inspiration, Chef John! (I admit though that I really would want to put in an outdoor, wood-fired brick oven for making authentic Neapolitan pizzas someday.) Btw, I don't think ash from burning a store-bought brand of charcoal is safe/ideal for your soil (much less for whatever you have growing there), especially when you consider that they can be chock-full of crazy chemicals/synthetic catalysts. However, if it's ash from burning "natural wood charcoal", then yeah, it should be okay.
Wow, my husband and I are so going to have to do this. We haven't wanted to get a grill since it would likely go missing in our neighborhood, but we've missed grilling outdoors. This would be perfect for our needs. Thanks so much for sharing this idea! :D
I *LOVE* this idea! I have an iron table and chairs...I can build this on the table and while we sit on chairs around the table we can grill our own food! What awesomeness!
I could listen to this guy read the phone book for hours. For those that don't know. It was a very thick book that contained phone number listings of phone numbers of people and business that had dumb telephones, not to be confused with smart phones.
My father used to make Bihare Kabab like this ...Ate it since childhood ...its sooper Dooper tasty ...yummy ...mouth waters ...but he made me a Real good expert in cooking...
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I've seen a few TV chefs cut a trough 6 to 12 inches down into the ground layer it with bricks and have it go real long but but only as wide as a little less than the skewers length so you can have a party where everybody puts their own skewers (there's a table with all the ingredients for the skewers people make up their own skewers and cook them themselves) over the coals with the skewers being long enough to go from one brick to the other you don't even need a grate.
Lodge Hibachi Grill runs for $105 on Amazon right now (used to be around $80). With this idea, I can get the same results for much less. And this has a few added benefits; you can increase the height of the grill, it doesn't rust, no spare parts to buy in case you break something. Thanks!
This is so perfect for our new apartment, which has a nice cement slab patio in the back. I have two questions if anyone can please help....1) Are those types of heavy grilltops easy to find? And 2) if you placed the floor of bricks down on the cement patio, do you think it would cause discoloration on the cement because of heat? Thanks!
thank you! this is the best idea i've seen for a quick build diy grill! that said, does anyone have ideas for what i can do to avoid kneeling on the ground to cook a steak? like a way to make legs or set it on top of something without burning that thing?
You would need a lot more bricks, but after the first layer is put down you could keep layering until you have the height that you want and then follow his design.
It's a cool idea but you should really be using kiln-fired bricks. Normal bricks can mess your day up if they explode and sharp chips start flying everywhere.
Oh, and remember to keep the bricks dry, if you use a wet brick for this, they'll either spit super hot shards at you or will just explode, this I say from experience!! :S
@@gilberthurtado1984 Oh good grief, how dangerous is that!!! I was about to recommend this method to a friend whose hibachi got damaged during a move. Now, no way.
@@aninditasaha4610 land is expensive in America and lot many people do not have big backyards unless you are super rich..in India we have large places cuz it’s a part of our home(spacious design) but theirs is designed to be as much space efficient as possible
Made one like this just a little bit longer & it work great on my Jerk Chicken & Jerk Pork & steamed some fish on it to. Great video & easy to do respect sir
