Barbecue stoves: types, accommodation and design

At his country site today everyone has the opportunity to organize a corner for cooking in the fresh air. Options for the construction and location of the summer kitchen there is a huge amount. Next will be considered a variety of barbecue stoves, their types, placement and design.

In the warm season, any family wants to conveniently and comfortably cook food in the fresh air. By moving the kitchen from the stuffy house to the street in the summer, you can get not only full-fledged healthy food, but also a lot of positive emotions, especially if you arrange not only a barbecue in the yard, but also a comfortable gazebo with a dining table and benches next to it. Such an oven can be multi-functional: in addition to cooking kebabs, it can be used to make any other hot dish, including soups and pastries.

There is no clear definition of a barbecue, in general it is considered that this is a method of cooking meat and other food on an open fire or ember.

In fact, a similar street oven can be equipped so that food can be prepared in various ways., to combine various national traditions: with the function of tandyr, mangal, cauldron. There may be an oven inside, burners are fitted at the top, as on a conventional gas stove, the design can be equipped with an exhaust hood. And all this in addition, you can arrange around a gazebo with a roof that protects from rain, put a cutting and dining table with benches.

The simplest outdoor barbecue can be made of brick walls with protrusions that will play the role of shelves, they are placed on a griddle, skewers, cauldron for pilaf or baking sheet. Below there will be a hearth for kindling with coals. The design itself will have the shape of the letter P, the height of not more than a meter, and the area for it is minimal, it is suitable even for a tiny plot.Such devices can be found in recreation areas and even in residential yards abroad, they appear in city parks and with us.

This oven is versatile, it can serve as a barbecue and barbecueas it is possible to put both lattice, and skewers on ledges. Before construction, the base is usually prepared, the upper fertile layer is cleaned, then covered with rubble or a flat concrete surface is poured. So it will be more effective kindling. After preparing the base proceed directly to the laying of the walls.

Such a primitive furnace can be expanded by adding other elements to the side. First of all, it is best to make a cutting table so that it is convenient to prepare food next to the brazier. On it, you can put already cooked on a barbecue dishes. Adding new elements to the main oven as far as space and imagination is enough - there are often modular prefabricated structures containing, besides the main roaster, an oven for baking with hotplates above, a smoker room for smoke-cured, a firewood, a section with shelves and even a sink with a sink.

In addition to barbecue, you can build on your country site and other varieties of outdoor stoves.

• Tandoor is the eastern type of mangal. It is popular in many countries of Central Asia, the Caucasus and southern Russia. The furnace has the shape of a cylinder or jug, its upper part is slightly narrowed relative to the bottom. At the bottom is a grill with coals, and fry bread or other food on the inner walls. The stove is usually made of clay, it is quite possible to equip a corner of its summer kitchen in the country. In addition to the cylindrical tandoor, there are other options for execution, the main feature is the cooking on the inner hot walls.

• Russian stove - traditional familiar to all option, suitable for cooking any hot dishes in a closed container: cereal, soups and others, in it you can make pastries. Thanks to the excellent thermal characteristics of the food cooked in it will be simply delicious. Its peculiarity is a cooking chamber recessed deep into it, a small threshold is located in front of it. The Russian stove is able to keep warm for a long time, for which it is appreciated when cooking many dishes.

• Finnish stove in many respects similar to the Russian, it contains a brewhouse that can keep warm for a long time, besides this, usually a brazier is attached to it. Thus, the design will be universal, it is possible to cook not only soups, pies and porridge, but at the same time to fry barbecue and barbecue on an open fire. Often the Finnish stove is equipped with a massive pipe, and it can be made from ordinary refractory bricks. In the lower part is a spacious woodshed, the second tier contains a hearth for coal, the third one is preparing food.

When the furnace complex with all modules is ready, you can take care of the roof. Barbecue, hidden in the gazebo - this is a great option to take shelter in bad weather from the rain and cook food with comfort. And also a good-quality roof will help create a shadow and protect it from the scorching sun. Pavilions with summer kitchen come in a wide variety of designs: with a straight, single or dual roof, closed, Finnish with glazing, brick, wood, stone and with a metal frame, with a hedge.

If a barbecue stove is located in a closed or half-closed gazebo, then it is necessary to equip the chimney hood from above.It will help get rid of the smoke, otherwise cooking and resting in such a building would be uncomfortable. The hood can be steel or aluminum, conical or pyramid, it can be hung from the roof rafters of the gazebo or supported on the brick base of the furnace.

The most common summer brick bbq oven is not surprising: this building material is cheaper than the others, it retains heat well, is durable and unpretentious in weather conditions. Its main advantage is universality, it is possible to create a design of any shape and size, to realize any of the most daring design. For the construction of a Russian or Finnish stove, tandyr, brazier or smokehouse, you should take only refractory clay or silicate brick. Those parts that do not come into contact with an open fire and do not get very hot, for example, a woodshed, a cutting table or a pipe can be constructed from the usual form - inside the rough, outside facing.

Rubble stone or cobblestone is a very good solution for building an outdoor stove with a barbecue, it is possible to create a massive construction from it, and it is quite simple to find this practically free material in the vicinity. It has a stunning natural look, and the finished roaster will look noble and very stylish in any landscape on a country site. In addition, the walls of the buta will be the most durable and will last more than one decade.

But with due diligence, you can bring ideas to life, the main thing is to install the formwork and fasten the stones with cement mortar.

Concrete stoves as monolithic structures are durable and retain heat perfectly. It is possible to create any form from mortar by installing formwork. But concrete, unlike brick, does not look so nice, in the future it will most likely have to be lined. In addition, it can cost more, and over time with temperature loads tends to crack.

It is best to use concrete floors for the foundation of the broiler and spacious gazebos with barbecue and barbecue. Fill will help create a flat surface on which to build a kitchen complex of any complexity.And if you then cover the concrete with any finishing coating, the gazebo can turn into a full-fledged summer dining room.

The roaster and cooking chamber can be cast iron. This material holds the heat well inside, does not let it out. In addition, cast iron fire dampers can prevent sparks from entering the street.

The chimney or hood can be made of various durable metal that is not exposed to moisture, for example, stainless steel. If instead of the chimney pipe is used, then it is usually brick.

When a barbecue is settled with a gazebo of combustible materials: wood or plastic, you need to take care of its fire safety. Wooden structures should be treated with refractory composition, located elements exposed to burning, away from open fire.

The simplest versions of an outdoor barbecue can have a height of 0.7 - 1 m, one section with a brazier has a length and width of 90 cm. A small stove with two compartments for oven and frying on an open fire is constructed with dimensions of 181 by 90 cm. The angular design with Woodshed, hearth and pipe will be in height to the base of the chimney about 2200 mm.

A Finnish or Russian stove has a height from the floor to the base of the pipe 2 - 2.2 m, their width is 2 m. With the addition of additional modules, dimensions may increase. There are no defined standards here, it all depends on the project of the owner and free space on the suburban area.

Even the simplest version of the outdoor one-section barbecue stove for the roaster can be made in a completely original design. For this purpose, facing bricks of various colors are used, arranged in a checkerboard pattern or arranged in a pattern. The lower compartment with a hearth is made with a forged fireplace grate. It is possible to revet such outdoor stoves with natural or artificial stone with any color and texture, use metal, wood, plaster or paint.

Outdoor stoves with a roaster, oven and woodshed can be straight or angled. In the latter case, on the sides of the main part, you can place beautiful shelves made of the same brick or metal. They contain frying grates, skewers, chopping knives, dishes and other kitchen utensils. A good option with a closed vent for the furnace is to provide it with a fireproof glass flap. Then at any time you can watch the beautiful flame inside.

If the barbecue oven is equipped with a canopy or a full-fledged gazebo, then the possibilities are still expanding. You can choose the appropriate design furniture: kitchen table, benches in rural style or chairs, cabinets and much more. Cold and gray concrete floor can be covered with polished boards, a mat or linoleum. Around the kitchen and dining area create a hedge. To do this, it is enough just to install metal or wooden poles, lower down the fertile soil and plant the shoots of dense climbers. In general, it is possible to arrange such street barbecues, as far as the creative intent is enough.

The stove with a barbecue for summer cottage, first of all, should be placed in a place where the prevailing wind direction does not blow the smoke from the coals to the residential building. It is also undesirable for him to go to contiguous areas, where he can make neighbors dissatisfied, or to the roadway. A tall chimney can solve this problem, the smoke will be scattered high above the garden area.

Outdoor kitchens with a barbecue stove should be located on a relatively flat place with flat terrain, without an abundance of floating soil.This will simplify the construction, make the rest area safe. With massive designs of a roaster, stove, oven, and other elements, you should definitely make concrete pouring at a level for the site.

For convenience, you can choose a place for a summer barbecue oven, adjacent to the wall of the house. So, it is not required to build additional structures. If the site already has a finished summerhouse, then it will not be a problem to build a small brazier inside. The main thing is to make sure that the hearth has a reliable concrete base that can withstand high temperatures, and smoke comes out of the enclosed room using an exhaust hood or a chimney.

It is possible to make fire at full capacity, to cook food in barbecue roaster when a concrete solution grabs, that is, several days after construction. The kindling of a closed furnace can be done with any dry wood, coal or peat. But for frying kebabs and barbecue on an open fire, you can only use wood or charcoal. After the end of cooking, you need to wait until all the coals have decayed, then remove the ashes, and the grill and the mouth of the stove must be cleaned each time.

A beautiful stove of light brick with a roaster and stove. Great design, while very functional.

An example of an angular furnace with several modules. This design looks very nice, especially behind a hedge.

Corner barbecue with tandyr. The design of the light stone is simply amazing.

A very unusual example of an outdoor barbecue stove.

Sketch of the original draft street barbecue.

To learn how to make a brick barbecue out of your own hands, see the following video.