Garden barbecue – the showpiece of your landscaping

The trend of getting back to nature also dictates some shifts in your daily habits. The concept of eating outdoor fits perfectly with these trends, yet preparing meals indoor and transporting them on terraces / gardens is uncomfortable and an exra source of stress for a modern man. Hence, garden barbecu comes as an elegant and required solution for this issue.

1. How to choose a Garden Barbecue

2. Benefits of a fixed Garden Barbecue

3. Types of Garden Barbecues

4. Accessories for Garden Barbecues

5. Barbecue Oven

1. How to choose a Garden Barbecue

As part of your landscaping, it is recommended that your barbecue matches the setting. Taking this into account, you have more options:  

• portable barbecue is the first one that comes to mind, with many types, in terms of structure  and style. The main benefit is that by being portable, it can be moved around and besides it can be packed after use, for not altering the look of your garden. Depending on how large is your family and how many people are going to use it, you can buy a smaller barbecue with less features, for occupying a smaller space, facilitating the transport and easy storage, or you can purchase a larger barbecue with many features. You can heat it with charcoal, wood, gas or electricity. Price range is subjected to all these factors, including the material and you have a wide offer to choose from. As a result, you have more expensive options than a fixed barbecue, but you have also cheaper options.

• fixed barbecue is the traditional type of barbecue. This is a structure, usually from concrete, located in a specific area of your garden, for allowing food preparation to that specific area only. Since this is a massive structure, you can forget about move it around, so select the location based on a careful analysis for the conditions of use.  Price should not be restrictive since concrete garden barbecue are not more expensive compared to the portable ones. There are more types of structure available:  fixed garden barbecues from concrete or built-in barbecues, shaped from a portable barbecue embedded in a perfectly landscaped stone block. 

2. Benefits of a fixed Garden Barbecue

Finding a location in your garden for the barbecue is not simple and you might need to work with a landscaper or an architect for a perfect result. Once it is chosen, the place requires a specific landscaping, with preparation being an important element of construction. Considering all these preparations, you have some obvious advantages that highlight your garden barbecue. Here are a couple of these:

• compact structure – you have a barbecue from reinforced concrete, cladded with different types of stone, especially refractory brick or polygonal stone, with no mobile elements that might require assembly throughout certain stages of operation

• durability – concrete is a rigid and hard material, durable against exterior use and specific factors

• fireproofing – concrete is a non-flammable material, without known risk in usage

• durability in freeze-thaw cycles – these are the main stress elements for landscaping. Freeze-thaw cycles might influence your cladding. Concrete is not sensitive in temperature variations, nore claddings are influenced by using specific adhesives.

• moisture durability – its fixed position in your garden involves durability against acidic rains and the specific exterior humidity in the installation area. Your garden barbecue withstands perfectly these conditions and the acidic rains will not modify its appearance.

• UV radiation resistance – no changes were reported within the structure of barbecue garden claddings

• durability against abrasive factors – the effect of wind increases the chance of scratching surfaces, yet without being influenced. Strong winds and wind gusts might have an influence of your barbecue structure, bu only for very strong winds, otherwise barbecue structure is steady and can not be torn down easily.

• lifetime – a garden barbecue can last for decades, compared to portable barbecues, without expensive care  

• wide range of sizes – you have more types of garden barbecues and different sizes, to satisfy any requirement

• size of storage spaces – large and protected against the influence of environmental factors

• price – garden barbecue is a lot cheaper than you would expect, since many of the portable garden barbecues are more expensive than garden barbecues with natural stone

• accessories – furniture for the barbecue, used in the preparation / dining area.

3. Types of Garden Barbecues

• small garden barbecue, size of 100 x 60 x 210 cm – is recommended for small gardens / for limited use. It is cladded with 1.7 cm thickness decorative stone, available in many colors. Usually, slate and limestone are used for claddings.

• small garden barbecue with rack – similar with the small grill, yet with a stone rack for storage

• medium garden barbecue, size of 120 x 70 x 210 cm – an ideal solution for medium / large gardens or with medium use coefficient. Cladding tiles have 1.7 cm thickness, with focus on slate and limestone.

• medium garden Harmony, size of 120 x 85 x 200 cm – medium size barbecue cladded with refractory brick

• medium garden barbecue Harmony Chocolate, size of 120 x 85 x 200 cm – same family as Harmony Barbecue, also cladded with refractory brick and differentiated by size and cladding color

• large size garden barbecue, size of 153 x 70 x 217 cm – for multiple users, usually cladded with slate / limestone, 1.7 cm thickness.

• large garden barbecue Harmony Chocolate, size of 163 x 85 x 215 cm, cladded with refractory brick

• garden barbecue “Easy”, size of 80 x 54 x 78 cm, cladded with refractory brick, basket and roof not included.

4. Accessories for Garden Barbecues

• garden table with 2 benches – furniture associated with garden barbecues, made from concrete cladded with slate; size of 71 x 80 x 130 cm (table) and 86 x 55 x 140 cm (benches)

• worktop - made from concrete and cladded with slate / limestone, size of 120 x 60 x 115 cm

• barbecue table & washbasin – a working table with size 135 x 60 x 120 cm, equipped with washbasin and watertap. Facilitates food preparation outdoor and dish washing after dinner. Washbasin is made of composite stone and needs to be connected to water supply. Washbasin is cladded with limestone. There is also an alternative with 120 x 60 cm size, with sink faucet installed on the wall and polygonal slate used for cladding.

• barbecue table with washbasin (stainless steel) – size of 120 x 85 x 120 cm, embedding a stainless steel sink, 46 x 43 cm size. Sink faucet is installed on the sink and decorative brick was used for cladding. Plating is made with apparent brick. For using this sink, water connection with the supply is mandatory.

• worktop cladded with refractory brick – available with 2 options and same size of 98 x 85 x 94 cm.

• garden set – includes a medium size barbecue, sink table and a standard table, designed for landscaping lavish dinings within nature

5. Barbecue Oven

Barbecue ovens were imagined for preparing food, without using a barbecue. Barbecue ovens include many parts, while baking area is cladded with refractory brick. Oven operates based on baking principle by heat stored during the heating process and you have a lid for preventing heat spreading. It is cladded with slate polygonal stone and is available in 120 x 145 x 170 cm size. Full option garden barbecue and oven represents everything you can wish for in terms of cooking outdoors.

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