Ok, so my husband is a welder. Means he 'stitches' (welds) metal together...and tends to be quite creative. This gorgeous offering, made up specifically for a party weekend we attended, is recycled from an ex 60 gallon hot water tank. Recycle to the Max!! Old bbq grills make up the internal cooking surface (you know, those old bbq's folks throw out? ya, from them), a lower base inside is set for holding charcoal. This was made as a tailgate/tabletop model (he plans to add legs to it for options). It fills the tailgait of our full size pick up truck.
It's 864 sq inches of cooking surface. We fired it up on his birthday weekend to test run it. Takes and hour to heat up as we expected. Heat was abt 300 on the ends and 600 in the center (we did have the coals mostly in the center). Heat lasted abt 3 hrs (we were still roasting marshmallows on it as it cooled). So we had variable heat cooking surface too.
This shot is from the next party weekend, shows how much food was already on the grill and the room still to go if wanted. Dave was the cook ( thanks much to the chef...you rock in so many more ways too my friend!!!)
And....we fired it back up in the am too, and threw the griddles on the grill's so we could cook pancakes for everyone! that worked like a charm too.
Summer just got a loooooot better!....bring it on baby...!
mmmmmm ya
