I got a few gift cards for Christmas and birthdays from various friends and family. With gift cards, we've always tried to keep from just using them for routine stuff. You know, like using one to fill up with gas or buy cat food or something. We'd have to buy those things anyway, gift card or not. To us, a gift card given to us by a loved one should be used for something we wouldn't ordinarily buy or something special we've always wanted but any other time it might seem frivolous. So we usually just put them up until the time is right (making sure of exp date).
Well this is one of those "I've been eyeballing this for a year" things and as soon as I remembered it, I knew to use one of the cards on this.
What is this? It's a roasting basket. Not self contained of course, this is the kind you put on a grill. I got this at a local grocery store of all places. They had three of them, then two, and then one. This one in fact, was the one left. It was on the top shelf and dusty but hey, it was meant to be.
I bought it and took it to the farm. It required a small bit of assembly.
Once done, here it is. The legs have steel weights in their bottoms so it's heavy and stable. The basket just sits inside the brackets.
You unlatch and open the basket, put your food inside and close it back. Then you rotate it manually using the handle on the side. There would be a need to wear gloves of course!
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There are all sorts of ideas on the box. Shrimp and other seafood, veggies, etc but of course the main reason we want it...ROASTED PEPPERS!
Hatch chilies we buy at the store would be wonderful or of course the peppers we grow in the garden.
Now we need to get the grills in the ground. We still have our park style grills we got for such a great deal a couple years ago. We haven't put them in yet because we were waiting to see how we are going to use the property and where they would work best as we clear areas. We'll see!
Soon we'll be roasting up some good food!
Looks like something you will get a lot use of. Be great for grilling your garden veggies, roasting peanuts etc.
ReplyDeleteOooh, peanuts. And any nut really I guess. Thanks for that idea. Yep, we'll keep everyone posted.
Deletei grew a bunch of hatch chilies and shishitos which would be perfect done in this!
ReplyDeleteLucky you!! I have never had a shinshito, I will have to try some. We LOVE hatch chilis.
DeleteOn the ends of my grill is a hole for a turny thing. I wonder if your grill has holes that will accept the roaster handle. Nothing has to be installed as there is just a hole made by lid closing. I love the idea of a freestanding grill.
ReplyDeleteOh our grills (which aren't in the ground yet) are the old fashioned park kind. Got them a couple years ago but haven't found just the right spot yet. They will be set in concrete. I do wonder if you could use this on one of those. Good idea I might have to check that out here at the apartment. Our public grills have the rotisserie thing
Deleteoh this looks wonderful, I can fore see many yummy meals coming from this!!!!
ReplyDeleteWe'll see. Incentive now to get our grills set in the ground.
DeleteI'm on a Hatch green Chili email list and just had one saying it's time ... they will be hitting the stores here in Tucson AZ any day now .... so maybe you can use this on a temporary grill you might be using currently ... and have some fresh roast chilis...
ReplyDeleteOh man, that's right!!! They are about to come out here too. I think it's usually end o August/early September. we have some public grills here at the apt in town, I will have to Brin this back into town. Thanks for the reminder/suggestion.
DeleteWhat a fantastic accessory for your grill! Grilled vegetables are so delicious. Your Hatch chilies will do great in this.
ReplyDeleteyes, going to bring it back into town and get prepared for hatch season!!
DeleteI have never seen one of these, it reminds me of a tombola. we have corn cages and veggie cages that you flip over. one of these would be amazing. We had new potatoes that had been put on a kebab skewer brushed with honey and soya sauce it was delicious. never had it before
ReplyDeleteThanks, yep when is saw it I thought the same thing. I even looked on Amazon and while I found the kind that go into electric rotisseries I've never seen these. That's why I had to have it. Thanks for stopping by!!
DeleteLooks handsome and useful! Let us know how it all goes round!
ReplyDeleteThank you, it might just get used really soon with hatch chilis coming soon.
DeleteAfter the cook out you can hose it off and run a game of Bingo out of it! ;-)
ReplyDeleteNow THAT made us laugh out loud. SO true. It looks JUST like that, ha.
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