kamadobbqparadise.co.uk Kamado bbq :The Kamado BBQ grill is a very special and very high-value grill, and itresembles nothing you've seen before, trust me. Ordinary grills look like boxes of black metal or bowls of iron and have no charm whatsoever. Mostly they're used a few times until they're broken and then you throw them out. And other, built grills have the disadvantage of being fixed on the spot so you cannot really protect them from rain and the weather which eventually make them turn ugly and dirty. Kamado has made a really audacious change in the grill market because they redesigned the traditional grill completely. Instead of metal, they use ceramics, and their grills are stunning to say the least. Every one of them is a piece of artwork. Mostly they look like vases, covered in a mosaic of tiny brilliant tiles on the outside so they can be easily cleaned, and smooth ceramics inside which are highly heat-resistant and also easy to clean sine nothing can stick to them, not even coal dust.
Over Christmas I bought a Big Green Egg. I read all the marketing blurb in the brochure and it captured my imagination, I've already written about how good it is and published some kamado barbecue recipes but I was still intrigued to find out more about the origins of such a versatile piece of cooking equipment. I wrote an article about it but since publishing it, I've done more research and found that some of my original findings may have already been creative in their origins. My preliminary research on the internet determined that it's origins lay in clay cooking pots from China that were later adapted by the Japanese a few hundred years ago. The end result was the Mushikamado and looking at photographs on the internet it's pretty clear that this part of the story is clear cut. Where things become a little less clear is in the 1960's when the kamado as we know it today arrived in the USA. There's a lot of published work that refers