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Food and Cooking

How environmentally friendly are barbecues?

Environmental awareness is at an all-time high, with more and more people making changes to their lifestyle in an effort to cut their energy usage and reduce carbon emissions.

When purchasing your coals, make sure that you buy locally sources charcoal from a supplier who grows wood sustainably. Avoid charcoal imported from distant places like Indonesia: it;s likely to come from endangered forests and bulked out with additives such as sand and clay to make it heavier, more expensive and harder to light!

Avoid lighter fluids or briquettes which are made from oil derivatives. Instead use some scrunched up newspaper, dry twigs and kindling. (source: 1,001 ways to save the Earth; Jonna Yarrow)

The energy used by a gas barbecue is no more than that used by a domestic cooker, so dining al fresco costs no more energy than your usual evening meal. The flame on a gas barbecue is instantaneous and completely controllable, so you only use heat when you actually need it – making sure that no extra energy is wasted before or after cooking. This is in contrast to charcoal barbecues, which expel extra energy in the extensive heating up and cooling down processes. What's more, LPG is known to be extremely clean-burning - unlike charcoal which directly affects the air quality around it. Read the full article on gas gas barbecues by clicking this link: http://www.bbq.co.uk/features/environmental-bbq.aspx

How to have a green barbecue by Eco worrier Anna Shepard on how to have an eco-friendly barbecue: Source: Times Online

Are you destroying the rainforest on your BBQ this weekend?. Archive article from Friends of the Earth, 28 August 2004.

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