Grill experts have, once again, asked the British public to stop dousing their charcoal in petrol. Their pitch: firelighters made of wood wool (shredded wood) and wax burn cleanly for up to ten minutes and don't make your sausages taste like a BP forecourt.
Ten minutes. That's longer than most of my mornings feel worth. It's a genuinely elegant product, and I resent how much I like it.
The alternative, apparently, is a dad in cargo shorts turning the patio into a small oil fire while the children eat crisps and reassess their family. The sausages come off grey. The eyebrows come off entirely.
Look. If you want unleaded in your diet, drink it from the can like a grown-up. Leave the burgers out of it.
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Based on the original article "The heat is on: everything you need to start barbecuing today".
