Heat Beads® Briquettes, as contestants at the Redesdale Tavern Camp Oven Cook-Off recently discovered, are fantastic for use whilst you’re in the wilderness. When you’re camping it can be difficult to serve something for dinner that doesn’t involve a can of baked beans or burnt sausages.

But it doesn’t have to be that way… just because you’re camping doesn’t mean you have to forsake the gourmet.

We recently stumbled across this great little invention from the US, a portable charcoal BBQ - Son of Hibachi. It’s ideal for outdoor use with Heat Beads® BBQ Briquettes and comes with its very own ’snuff out pouch’, a heat proof bag. You don’t have to wait for the BBQ to cool completely before packing up, simply place in the bag and it will extinguish your Heat Beads® BBQ Briquettes so that they can be re-used.

To find out more, check out this video:

…and in other news The Heat Beads® Team got into the spirit of the AFL grand final last Friday with a BBQ of our own. We ate delights char grilled to perfection including a delicious spit roast and saganaki (see pictures below).

These types of meals show just some of the range that can be BBQ’d using Heat Beads® BBQ Briquettes. For your chance to win a Heat Beads® Entertainer BBQ, enter our Spring BBQ Video Competition - to find out more click here.

Great sporting events mean a great excuse for a BBQ! The AFL Grand Final this weekend and the NRL Grand Final and Bathurst 1000 just around the corner. Fire up the barbie and enjoy the fun with family and friends. While you’re at it, why not make a video and enter our spring competition?

To celebrate the launch of the new Heat Beads® Entertainer BBQ, to be released in Australia in November 2008, the Heat Beads® team is giving you a special opportunity to win one of these great units, just in time for Summer!

Simply upload a four minute video of you or your friends BBQ’ing your favourite recipe on Heat Beads® BBQ Briquettes to YouTube - we’ll be looking for the best footage of your delicious recipes actually cooking over the Heat Beads® briquette’s, lots of fun and good humour, and of course your comment about why you love to cook over Heat Beads®! Then you’ll be in the running to be one of three winners of a Heat Beads® Entertainer BBQ valued at $499.

There will also be three Heat Beads® Prize Packs on offer for the close runners up containing Heat Beads® BBQ Briquettes, a Heat Beads® Quickstart Chimney and Heat Beads® Drip Trays!

What you need to do:
Include footage of a bag of Heat Beads® BBQ Briquettes in your video. MAKE SURE you tag your video with these keywords so we can find it on YouTube:
* How to BBQ
* BBQ
* Barbecue
* Barbeque
* Grill
* Heat Beads® briquettes

The deadline for entries is Monday October 13. Winners will be notified via their YouTube profiles and the winning entries will be posted to the Heat Beads® Blog, Sizzle.

To be eligible for this competition, you must be a Heat Beads® BBQ News subscriber. Click here to subscribe.

With winter upon us, the Heat Beads® team reminds the BBQ community that now is as good a time as ever to enjoy Australia’s favourite BBQ Briquettes. Whether it’s basking in the glow of Heat Beads® BBQ Briquettes in a firepit or brazier or preparing a roast or weekend BBQ meal, Heat Beads® BBQ Briquettes deliver a consistent, even heat that lasts for hours.

Win!

To keep you in the BBQ mood, the Heat Beads® team in conjunction with Jim Beam is giving current and new subscribers the chance to win one of 10 Winter Warmers Packs. Each prize consists of a Heat Beads® Quickstart Chimney, two 4kg bags of Heat Beads® BBQ Briquettes, a box of Firelighters, a roasting and drip tray as well as a sensational Jim Beam Party Pack. The Jim Beam Party Pack includes a bottle of gourmet marinade, their award winning BBQ sauce and a bottle of Jim Beam’s famous steak sauce, each with the genuine Jim Beam flavour in every bottle. There are also cut out recipe cards and a branded basting brush included.

To win a Winter Warmer Pack, all you need to do is be one of the first five subscribers to email your favourite winter barbecue recipe.

There’s also a second chance to win through our new subscriber draw. Encourage a friend to subscribe (just use the forward to a friend link below) and both of you will go into the draw to win one of five Winter Warmer Packs on offer until July15th.

As featured recently by Denis Walter and Bob Hart on the ‘Thrill of the Grill’ segment on Radio 3AW, the Heat Beads^® Company has just released its sensational Quickstart Chimney that makes barbecuing even quicker and easier. A great way of firing up your BBQ, (in just 3 simple steps), a Heat Beads^® BBQ Quickstart Chimney ensures your briquettes become hotter faster and ash over more quickly, meaning you’re ready to cook on them so much sooner. It’s another great BBQ innovation from the Heat Beads^® Company. A great way of firing up your BBQ, (in just 3 simple steps), a Heat Beads^® BBQ Quickstart Chimney, ensures your BBQ briquettes become hotter faster and ash over more quickly, meaning you’re ready to cook on them, so much sooner. It’s another great BBQ innovation from the Heat Beads^® Company.

Don’t forget that even though summer may have ended, there’s plenty of other ways of using and enjoying Heat Beads^® BBQ Briquettes. While they provide the ideal cooking temperature and add that delicious unique flavour to meat, fish, chicken, vegetables, desserts and roasts, they’re also the perfect way to stay warm when used in an outdoor brazier or firepit. You can pick up a bag at the supermarket or petrol station on your way home for those chilly, autumn/winter nights.

To make sure you’re ready and have everything you need, here’s an Australia Day barbecue checklist.

To Cook Up A Storm: Heat Beads^® Regular or Easy - Lite BBQ Briquettes, some Heat Beads^® Firelighters, a BBQ brush to clean off and prepare your grill or hot plate, a drip tray to help keep the BBQ clean, some paper towels or hand towels, a pair of tongs and maybe even some olive oil for your hotplate. And don’t forget a clean plate for the food once it’s been cooked.

What Else You’ll Need: To protect against the sun, sunscreen or zinc for your nose and an umbrella or floppy hat, a Heat Beads^® Citronella candle (helps keep the mozzies away), and an ice bucket for your favourite drink whether soft, fruit juice, beer, wine or even champagne (after all it is a celebration!).

New to the Heat Beads^® product range is the Grill Brush, available at Coles for only $9.99. Dust off your Weber, and use this nifty brush to give your cooking grill a thorough clean this BBQ season.