So it's Friday and I want to braai, got tons of wood, reached for the Blitz.... Feck! There be naught!
Checked in the pantry for the reserve box.... Aaaaaagh! Tis also vacated the shelf.... Oh! Whoa betide me, how to ignite the wood on the barbie......
Then I remembered how back in the 70's , in the days before Blitz, me old pappie would use old newspapers..... so I gave it a bash.... a lot harder than it looks..... after much huffin'' unt puffin' I just got tons of smoke billowing into the clean Namibian atmosphere..... I had to resort to a last tactic, I found a bottle of Peach schnapps that a german mate of mine had given me 4 years ago....
Turfed the stuff onto the fire and bob's yer uncle.... Peach flavoured flames....
Sigh! How we lost our way.....
It';s funny how some prat can start an entire bush fire by just turfing his ciggie out his car window.... bet he would'nt have got my fire in flames with that ciggie trick....
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Mike - when I lived in WHK I used strips of inner tube that held the bundle of kameeldoring together. Best wood for a braai. Hard stuff and the heat lasts longer.
Igniting the inner tube was easy. But being in UK I cannot get kameeldoring or the inner tubes.
Now I use a strip of Firesteel to skoot sparks onto some wood shavings or any other suitably dry and inflammable kindling. Check it out here http://tinyurl.com/4yukj4n (http://tinyurl.com/4yukj4n) . It is well worth the investment from Amazon.
It will never run out nor not work in the wet.
Simples.
That's why ye never chuck the kindling sticks with the garden trash, Mr A - ye stuck them where they keep dry & start the fire with 1 sheet a paper & 2 hands o kindle sticks --- no wastin of good juice either !!! (We use trimmings of the haak & steek bush as kindle or even small dead branches of the kameeldoring).
@ Robert - sorry, if I were allowed to send you some kameeldoring I would have - got plenty here and that's all we use for braai.
Rolled up sheets of newspaper also do a good job, no firelighters when we were small...........
Mike I'll show you how to do it nect time we braai 36_1_72
@Mike, You see us Scots, we read the papers, unlike you Engels mense that want to set fire to them.....
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Weet nie hoekom sukkel julle Britte so nie...............of Skotte...............of Irre............ :nono1:
Okay, we have enough kindle sticks, blitz, oil, beer, kameeldoring wood and and and ... to braai the steaks of this big guy that Cobus (the uncle) shot this morning when he went out in search or the jackall that killed a heavy pregnant sheep ...
Look at those antlers ....
OK so who's turn is it to make the potato salad?
It is always my turn to make the potatoe salad !!
OK. good. Please make the potato sald.
Who can make the marinade? Or does it need marinade?
I make that too, but it does not always need marinade. I bake the bread as well. I make the sosaties and the wors .... sit back, hold the tv remote and be quiet - I am doing the braai as well !!!!!
WOW - and the uncle just informed me that the Koedoe weighed in a whopping 175kg (after being slaughtered ~ in Afrikaans Boere term we call uit 'uitslag gewig')
My my Dalene, you are a busy little girl....................
Van Skotte en Engelse gepraat . Ek het skotse familie. daarom mag ek van hulle praat . As ek David wou kwaad maak , dan het ek hom daaraan herinner dat hulle 'n kasteel in Skotland gehad het . Queen Elizabeth wou die eiendom terug gee. Die skotte was so plesierig dat hulle al die pad na London braaivleis gehou het , en skotse Whiskey gedrink het. Toe hulle by die Queen kom , was die Skotte so dronk dat sy hulle weg gejaag het . so is die Macnabs steeds sonder die kasteel ,en toe hulle het na RSA gekom , waar hulle nog steeds braai en whiskey drink !