Feeling inspired by the upcoming festive season and the promise of fine summer weather? Well, now is the time to pull out your BBQ from under the carport and try out an American classic, marinated ribs.

The recipe for the ‘Stickiest Tastiest Ribs Marinade’ comes from Brendan Sheedy who says he created this recipe by ‘putting together all the stickiest and tastiest things I ever had in a BBQ marinade’. And whaddya know? This recipe proves to be addictive with Brendan stating, ‘there ain’t enough hogs on this planet to sate my appetite once I get going with this one!’

Click here to view this fantastic BBQ marinade recipe.

Heat Beads® has just launched an online shop so that you can buy Heat Beads® accessories and have them delivered to your door before Christmas. The online store is perfect for your Christmas Shopping!

To celebrate the launch of our new website, we are offering our BBQ News subscribers the chance to win a brand new Heat Beads® Entertainer BBQ!

Get in quick; the first 20 current subscribers and 20 new subscribers to enter will be in the running for the prize. All you have to do is send us your favourite char grill BBQ Recipe* along with a photo of your char grilled creation cooked on Heat Beads® BBQ Briquettes, whether its on a camp oven, BBQ, Spit, Cobb cooker or even a tyre rim!! Email your entry to heatbeads_news@auschar.com.au. (The images must a minimum of 400kb and maximum of 2MB).

We are always looking out for new, original and inventive recipes (come on guys, get creative - no copy and pasting!). This could be your 15 minutes of fame with the winning recipe featured as our recipe of the month.

Please remember, you must be a BBQ News subscriber to enter, click here to subscribe.

* The Heat Beads® Company will retain unlimited use of all recipes entered in the competition and these may be included in the Recipes section of the Heat Beads® website, blog, or for various marketing activities (entrants will be acknowledged).

Only a few weeks and we’re into summer. Time to brush up on your grill skills and clean the BBQ. Here are a few handy articles from our series on the art of char grilling earlier in the year to jog your memories and get the char grilling inspiration flowing!

All the ingredients for a great BBQ

Top 12 BBQ Tips from the experts

How to not get burnt while playing with fire - for an important review
of grilling safety

Top 10 weird and wonderful recipes – for inspiration!

With the launch of the new-look Heat Beads® website also comes the online shopping cart. Click here to stock up on your favourite Heat Beads® products before Christmas and have them delivered to your door.

Any true blue BBQing Australian bloke knows that there are certain things such as health issues and feelings that just aren’t meant to be talked about, right? Well, as they say the times they are a changin’ and many men across the country are doing their bit this month to raise awareness of men’s health issues such as depression and prostate cancer.

Three men from the Heat Beads® Team are doing their best grow a ‘mo’ for Movember. Damien (Sales and Marketing Manager), Malcolm (Finance Manager) and Jason (Systems Administrator) have been brave enough to take part in this fantastic fundraiser that has proved to be quite a bit of fun!

To see their progress so far, take a look at the pics below.

Left to Right: Damien, Jason, Malcolm

In its fifth year, Movember is one of the most successful fundraisers for mens health in the country, having raised over $24 million in total. The money is donated to the Prostate Cancer Foundation of Australia and Beyond Blue, the national depression intiative. These are particularly worthy causes when you consider some of the stats:

* 1 in 6 men are affected by depression and most don’t seek help
* In Australia last year, 18,700 men were diagnosed with prostate cancer and more than 2,900 died of the disease, making it as prevalent in men as breast cancer in women.

To donate, organise your own team or attend the Gala Parté click here.

We are about to enter the BBQ season. Therefore, it is important to refresh your memory on the etiquette of this sublime outdoor cooking activity

When a man volunteers to do the BBQ the following chain of events are put into motion:

Routine…
(1) The woman buys the food.
(2) The woman makes the salad, prepares the vegetables, and makes dessert
(3) The woman prepares the meat for cooking, places it on a tray along with the necessary cooking utensils and sauces and takes it to the man who is lounging beside the BBQ - beer in hand.
(4) The woman remains outside the compulsory 3-metre exclusion zone where the exuberance of testosterone and other manly bonding activities can take place without the interference of the woman.
Here comes the important part:
(5) THE MAN PLACES THE MEAT ON THE BBQ.

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More routine…
(6) The woman goes inside to organise the plates and cutlery.
(7) The woman comes out to tell the man that the meat is looking great. He thanks her and asks if she will bring another beer while he flips the meat.
Important again:
(8) THE MAN TAKES THE MEAT OFF THE BBQ AND HANDS IT TO THE WOMAN.

More routine..
(9) The woman prepares the plates, salad, bread, utensils, napkins, sauces, and brings them to the table.
(10) After eating, the woman clears the table and does the dishes.

And most important of all:
(11) Everyone PRAISES the MAN and THANKS HIM for his cooking efforts.
(12) The man asks the woman how she enjoyed ‘her night off.’ And, upon seeing her annoyed reaction, concludes that there’s just no pleasing some women.

We would love to be able to credit the genius that came up with this. If you know who it is, please leave a comment.