The braai guide
The fire decides how dinner goes, and almost nobody is taught it. Four pieces on what to burn, which wood, how to tell when the coals are ready, and how to get it going with nothing but newspaper.
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01 · 6 min
Wood, charcoal or gas
Not three grades of the same thing. What each one gives you, what it costs you in time, and which to pick for the braai you are actually having.
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02 · 7 min
Which woods, and which to avoid
Rooikrans, kameeldoring, sekelbos and wattle, what each tastes like — and the woods that will make you ill, two of which are sold as firewood.
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03 · 6 min
How to read your coals
Grey ash, the hand test, and building a hot end and a cool end so everything comes off the grid at the same time.
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04 · 6 min
Lighting a fire without firelighters
Four ways that need nothing you do not already have — and why petrol is never one of them.