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All in one place 3663 provides a one stop shop for virtually all the food you need for a barbecue event.

Its Smart Choice range offers beef burgers, sausages and baps, as well as more exotic items like Red Snapper Fillets and Tuna and Salmon Steaks. Perk up barbecue food with Smart Choice Apple Sauce, English Mustard or Barbecue Sauce.

Offer customers something different - how about a butterfly chicken breast in Garlic or Herb or Cajun, served in a pitta bread? All items from 3663 under the Smart Choice label.
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Wing it! Serve Padley's New Plain Cooked Chicken Wings with a smoky BBQ sauce or a Thai dip. Or serve Wings of Fire in a fruity, hot sauce.

These are just some of the suggestions from Padley's on perking up the barbecue menu. Or try serving Buffalo Wings in an American buffalo style marinade, Chicken Tikka Style Bites with dips and Chicken Drumstick as part of a barbecue combo.
Padley's

Flair, not flare While flare-ups add a certain spectacle to barbecue cooking, they can make life hard for the chef and pose risks to customers. On Sovereign barbecues, the burner bars, heat exchanger and griddle are positioned so that fat discharge from meat or fish during cooking is kept clear of high temperature surfaces, safely collecting in removable drip trays for later disposal.

Fired by propane gas, the unit is fabricated entirely in heavy gauge stainless steel. All parts likely to require cleaning up after cooking can be removed and refitted quickly and simply. Collapsible tubular steel legs with large wheels aid manoeuvrability, even n soft grass.
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Be a professional** Specially developed for catering applications, the Cinders range of stainless steel barbecues is available in 3 ft and 6 ft lengths with a variety of accessories including griddle and supports for Gastronorm pans. Cooking is by means of LP gas. Prices range from £750 for the 3ft wide Cavalier and from £1250 for the 6ft long Caterer. The company also makes a glass-shielded Hog Roast for outdoor use.
Cinders Barbecues

Breast best marinated Grampian Foodservice produces an array of products suitable for the barbecue. These include Jumbo BBQ Oriental Chicken Kebabs - chargrilled chicken kebabs in an oriental barbecue sauce; Chicken and Pineapple Cocktail Kebabs - marinated chicken breast with pineapple on a bamboo stick and Chicken and Onion Cocktail Kebabs - marinated chicken breast and onion on a kebab stick.
Grampian Foodservice

Multi-purpose Various refinements have been made to the Rotisol LPG Super BBQ including optional heated carvery gantry, drop-on griddle plates for patio breakfasts and a redesigned basket spit assembly holding up to eight x 10 kg roasting joints. Mounted on heavy duty wheels, the unit measures 1900 mm long by 850mm deep x 940mm high and is constructed of stainless steel and porcelain. Standard accessories include a revolving basket system able to take up to 24 chickens.

List price is £3,595 , with a special price of £3,195 available until the end of April which includes a free starter pack including gloves, temperature probe, governor, seasonings and carving set. Suppliers Trident also sell Zenith 4 and 5 LPG-fired lava rock chargrills made by Kirklees Developments, which come complete with a collapsible mobile stand. Special prices (until May 31): £450 and £635
Trident Catering Equipment

Oven-cued Create barbecued food quickly and easily with Bar-B-Ribs from Bernard Matthews, which are cooked in the oven. They are made of chopped and shaped turkey, with added pork fat and coated in a barbecue sauce. The 57g (2oz) portions can be oven baked in about 15 minutes or grilled or shallow-fried in less than ten minutes. They can be served in a bun, roll or sandwich with salad and mayonnaise.

Turkey burgers, also from Bernard Matthews, are a great alternative to traditional beefburgers.
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Beautiful results** Described as "the most beautiful barbecue in the world", the Japanese-style Kamado offers safe enclosed cooking of steak, salmon. ribs and breads using charcoal, logs or wood chips as the heat method. Cooking is carried out in a domed ceramic vessel with hand-made high gloss mosaic tiling for an elegant external appearance.

Accurate control of temperature is possible by manipulating the damper top and draught door. Fingertip control of the otherwise heavy lid is achieved by compression struts which can also be locked into place to keep the lid open without the risk of it slamming down. Sizes range from 74-160 cm high with larger models on distinctive "elephant feet" from 46 to 81cm wide. Prices range from £399 to £1699.
Kamado Barbecue Europe

That's spice Here are some barbecue ideas to make the most of your event.

Place salmon fillets onto squares of buttered foil, pour over Green Thai Curry Sauce from Tilda and scrunch the foil to make a parcel. Cook on the BBQ for 10 to 15 minutes or until cooked.

Thin Tilda's Traditional Mango Chutney with some water and drizzle over some quartered figs and goats' cheese, wrap in foil and cook on the barbecue for five minutes. Open the parcels at the table.

Marinate chicken strips overnight in Tilda's Tikka Masala Sauce and thread onto soaked skewers and barbecue until cooked. Serve with a squeeze of fresh lime juice and natural yoghurt.
Tilda

No-clog barbie The solid stainless steel cooking grid on the Parry 7076 gas chargrill is designed to to prevent food from sticking with three positional settings and safe-to-use handles. A lower grid accommodates a single layer of lava rock, heated by 37,000 BTU/hr twin burners which are protected by a specially designed shield to prevent fat and oil clogging. Other features include large removable stainless steel drip tray and piezo ignition. Price is £1030
Parry Catering Equipment

Live it large Most recent addition to the Vantage range of outdoor cooking equipment, which also includes spit roasters, barbecues and outdoor griddles, are Spanish-made Big Pans. Manufactured to commercial standards in enamelled or stainless steel, the giant pans are designed to make the production and service of paella, risotto, stir-fries, casseroles and curry into a visible event. Pans also suit use as solid top griddles, with separately controllable burners. The standard package includes burner, tripod stand, gas hose, regulator.
Vantage Catering Equipment

On the turn! The new Taste-Maker barbecue has revolving kebab skewers, which cook the meat quickly and evenly. Its motor mechanism turns the kebabs and chicken rotisserie spit automatically, so no-one has to spend time turning the food and kebabs are cooked in just ten minutes.

With the Taste-Maker system, burnt food and a "charcoal" flavour is avoided. Additional sets of kebab skewers can be purchased, which means extra kebabs can be prepared beforehand. If you're already got a gas barbecue, there's the Taste-Maker frame which sits on top of the gas barbecue and works in exactly the same way.

Different varieties of kebabs can be created using meat, fish, vegetables - and even fruit!

For more tips and ideas, visit the web site www.taste-maker.net
Taste-Maker

Glowing rocks Finished in "rustic" black, the A103 light duty chargrill runs on natural gas or LPG and has an adjustable 500mm x 320mm cooking grid over glowing lava rocks. Gas rating is 42,800 BTU and price is £599.
Rowlett Rutland

So versatile The range of Uncle Ben's culinary sauces from Masterfoods can be used as bastes, marinades, sauces and dips for the barbecue.

There are three new sauces: Hickory Smoke Barbecue sauce - a tomato sauce with a sweet and hickory smoked wood flavour.

Sweet Honey Barbecue sauce - a tomato sauce with a sweet honey flavour, suitable for a lighter style barbecue.

Fajita Sauce - a traditional Mexican smooth tomato based sauce, suitable for toppings and wraps.
Masterfoods