Why not try our recipe for Glazed Christmas Ham, that will make a fantastic centre piece at your Christmas lunch or dinner?

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!

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!

The Heat Beads® team likes do our bit for the community. So, when the Latrobe Regional Hospital recently hosted its Platinum Ball at the Premiere function centre in Traralgon, we jumped at the opportunity to donate a prize for its fund raising auction. This fantastic and entertaining evening raised a total of $133,000 to be directed to the Gippsland Cancer Care Centre! This is a whopping $59,000 up on the funds raised at last year’s event.

The silent auction was a highlight, raising a grand total of $34, 600! Heat Beads® donated its brand new Entertainer BBQ and coordinated with local businesses to create the ultimate BBQ package that would light any char grill enthusiast’s fire! The package contained the below items and sold for a bargain $1,900 to Wight’s Motor World.

* Heat Beads® Solid Fuel Entertainer BBQ
* 8 X 4kg bags of Heat Beads(r) BBQ Briquettes
* 6 piece Elwood Patio Setting
* Gasmate Outdoor Patio Heater
* Qualified Chef from Neilsons Restaurant: for one perfect BBQ!
* Salads for 6: Courtesy of Neilsons Restaurant
* $50 meat voucher: Courtesy of Hyland Street Butchers

Apparently there is more than one way to build a BBQ, as heard on Sunday night on the Cooda Beens on ABC Radio. One listener who spent a lot of time in New Caledonia where BBQ’s are scarce says truck rims make an excellent BBQ base. When filled with Heat Beads^® BBQ Briquettes and topped with a grill plate, they provide a cost effective option. They are said to last up to two years due to the thickness of the steel.

This brilliant flash of inspiration got us at the Heat Beads^® Headquarters thinking what other pre-loved items we knew of, that are used to produce a make-shift BBQ. To name just a few:

- A VW Golf Trailer as featured in our blog a few weeks ago, click here to find out more.
- An old washing machine drum
- An old wood fire oven

What do you think? Why not leave a comment with your flash of BBQ brilliance?

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.

Heat Beads® TV has just been added to the Heat Beads® website with four instructional videos showing how easy it is to set up for various BBQ cooking scenarios.

With one click, Heat Beads® TV demonstrates how to light your Heat Beads® BBQ Briquettes, the set up for direct and indirect cooking and how easy it is to start the BBQ using a Quickstart Chimney or Heat Beads® Easy-Lite® BBQ Briquettes.

Just another way the Heat Beads® website, helps make barbecuing easier.

In recognition for taking an Aussie icon to the rest of the world Heat Beads^® Team was presented with the 2006 Governor of Victoria Export Award - Minerals & Energy, for its successful export activity of the famous BBQ briquettes.