Some tips on preparing perch and other recipes for the tabletopBBQ on Ed’s wonderful tomato blog

We are delighted that The Essential Ingredient is now selling our tabletopBBQs. I’m sure you know that The Essential Ingredient is a culinary icon and we’d encourage you to check out their stores in the lead up to Christmas.

Necessity may well be the mother of invention but in this case it may have been something else. Dave, my good friend and partner in Vietnam, has invented the “Bike Barbie”. Check out this video.
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The world needs bike barbies and i’m on a mission.

Ok here’s the youtube video i promised Cooking with your tabletopBBQ which shows you what’s in the box, how to light the charcoal, cooking some eyefillet and a banana/chocolate recipe tip for those sweet needs. I hope this takes the mystery out of what to do and if you have any questions please feel free to leave a comment and i’ll be right back to you.

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Great news this week. Our good friends at Essential Ingredient in Prahran will soon be stocking the tabletopBBQ. Also i started the tabletopBBQ twitter so feel free to follow and join in with recipes, ideas, questions and general chat. I’ve posted a bunch of photos too on twitpics and flickr. Many of the photos are the same..there are more on flickr.

Last week i went along to the Cleanskinkitcheware’s TabletopBBQ cooking class held by Susie Riggall in Cowes on Phillip Island. Over twenty people paid to attend and it was a great session. One lady told me she’d bought a tabletop BBQ after seeing it in the Herald Sun, in January, but had no idea what to do when she opened up the box and so hadn’t used it.

So to remedy this i’m going to post an “opening up the box and firing up the tabletopBBQ ” video on youtube using my newly purchased flip video camera which i highly recommend. I’ll let you know when its posted.

There are now three new places to buy Tabletop BBQs. Cleanskin Kitchenware in Lilydale, Cowes and Wonthaggi have them instore. Full details are listed below in “Where can i buy one and what do they cost?” below. John from Cleanskin Kitchenware told me that several people came into his Lilydale store asking for a tabletop bbq. He checked out our site contacted me and hey presto he’s now a stockist. Easy as that.

Cleanskin in Cowes is running a Table top BBQ cooking class on 20th September between 3-5pm. Each class accommodates 30 people and costs $30. If you’d like to sign up please contact either Michele or John on 03 59592 3494

Thanks to Ed from Tomato we are running a recipe competition for the chance to win one of 10 BBQ’s. Check out the many recipes for inspiration.

I was lucky enough to be interviewed by Steve and Jane (pictured above) on 3AW’s Saturday morning gardening show last weekend. Great show, lovely people and a real pleasure. Here’s our chat tabletopbbq-segment-200609 it runs for 5 minutes.

I’ve just been restocking my retailers as the phones have been running hot.

If you would like to stock them please let me know by commenting on this post and i’ll get back to you.

Onwards

The table top BBQ breaks new ground…bringing the blokes and the ladies together, designed to be the centre of attention on the table.

Perfect for unit-dwellers who might be spatially challenged or just for those more intimate BBQ moments.

All the rage, in Viet Nam, one table top BBQ can cook for four people.

Entire restaurants are dedicated to these little beauties. The idea is for each person to cook a few morsels at any one time similar to fondues. The trick is to prepare your strips of chicken, beef, calamari, vegetables etc. ahead of time, to be grilled over charcoal, along with special fried rice and authentic Vietnamese dipping sauces. Enjoy.

Better Homes & Gardens magazine will be featuring them in their February “BBQ-special” issue hitting the street on 9th January.

We would like to use this page for users to share their recipes & experiences with the Table Top BBQ. Here is a few sauce recipes to starts things of. Feel free to add your below in the comments area.