Barbeques Galore Billabong Instructions Manual - First Time Use
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First Time Use
Lightly coat the cooking surfaces with oil. This will prevent food from sticking. Light the burners
and leave on high for about 3-5 min utes to warm the barbeque up. Once the barbeque is warmed
up, you should set the burners to your desired cooking temperature. You’re now ready to start
cooking up a feast.
Preparing To Cook
During manufacturing, the cooking surfaces (plates and grills) were coated with a non-toxic paint.
This paint will come off completely over time. Its purpose is purely to help protect your barbeque
during transport and storage.
Coat the top of the hotplates and grills with canola oil or something similar. Light the barbeque
as described earlier. Leave the barbeque with all burners on low and the hood open for about 10
minutes. Some paint may come off the cast iron at this time. Now clean the surfaces with water
and a brush. Be careful of steam coming off the cast iron surface while doing this. The hotplates
and grills are now cured and ready for use.
This process only needs to be done the first time you use the barbeque. For ongoing protection
of the cooking surfaces, follow the procedures in the Cleaning, Storage and Maintenance sections.
Curing The Cast Iron
Controlling Flare Up
Flare-ups are caused by juices and oils from the food igniting in sudden bursts of flame that come up over
the grill. A little bit of flare up as well as the resulting smoke is a good thing. It’s what gives barbequed
food that unique outdoor flavour. But if it happens too often, or if the flame lasts more than a couple of
seconds, your food will char, so you need to control it.
First of all, cooking very fatty foods will cause a lot of flare up. You should trim excess fat off your meat.
Also, excess flaring usually means the burners controls are up too high, turning them down before flare-
up occurs will usually prevent it happening in the first place.
Moving the meat away from the flare up will also reduce the problem.
Some very fatty foods can only be cooked on the hotplate or indirectly with the hood closed.
Always remember to switch the barbeque OFF once you are finished cooking.
Don’t ever let the temperature reach into the "very hot"
zone or the barbeque will overheat and burn your food. A
separate probe thermometer is available as an accessory
from all Barbeques Galore stores. This takes the guesswork
out of knowing when your food is cooked.