Additional Finds On The Bizarre Ways People Find To Tailor Their Favourite Things
Carrying on from my last piece which examined developments in bbq design themed around commercial products, I wondered about people who have made their own Potty creations.
It’s no bombshell that the yanks have used cars to make bbq grills, either static or it looks like still usable as a means of transport. There are some fabulous examples of recycling as we must that in the case of the Pontiac that has had it’s boot converted and the Lancia that has had the same done to the engine bay, something rather significant must have happened to the other end of the car.
There have also been some inventive conversions to engines themselves. There is a magnificent job on a massive V8 which has had a side removed and replaced with a hatch, and the exhaust outlets turned into chimneys out of each cylinder bore.
Another has made a charcoal bbq cooking station on a theme of the General Lee car from the Dukes of Hazzard television series. This one is very good because it has several storeys of bbq grills meaning that you are able to cook for lots of people and because it is on wheels, attaches to a tow-bar and can be taken anywhere.
Another evidently American creation is a huge six-shooter handgun shaped one with the charcoal bbq built into the bullet chamber and the escaping smoke seeps out of the barrel making it look as though it has just been fired.
Something all of these seem to have in common is that they are spotlessly clean, which makes me query whether having done them, the owners can’t quite bring themselves to use them which rather defeats the object more than somewhat.
One that absolutely was used and by far and away the most striking is one constructed in Montevideo which weighed in at 12 tonnes and was used by 1252 cooks to attempt to break the world bbq record by cooking 8 tonnes of meat which required 6 tonnes of coals. It didn’t make clear how much ketchup and mustard was needed but that is a wonderfully impressive effort.
The finest that I’ve found though must be a Ford truck from the 1930′s which has been totally converted to have the freight space changed into a huge mobile bbq with racks over the fire pit, the sides have had compartments built in for storing tools, food, coals and all the bits and bobs needed for combining having a bbq and mass catering. I am assuming that it a business enterprise because it is also usable as a truck, although again it is spotlessly clean so you almost imagine that it would be a shame to use it.
Such things are certainly an indication of the love people have for cooking outside, and the inventiveness for customizing something as simple as bbq grills and the willingness to spend what must frequently be big amounts of money on them, shows us that trying to do something a bit special when it comes to sharing food gives further confirmation that man is a supremely social animal.
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