Barbecues are a great way to bring your family and friends together and to share with them the food you have prepared and flavored in you own unique style. With gas or electric barbecue char grills the result is great tasting, down-to-earth food with mouth- watering aroma. Nowadays, electric and gas grills permit you to cook a simple effect Char-grill in your own kitchen, backyard or patio.

Electric grills are the most popular indoors grills because they are easy to setup and use. And you all able to use them when due to hire fire danger season when open barbecue grills are not permitted. Outdoor electric grills usually roll on wheels like a trolley; other units are mounted on a fixed pedestal and need to be connected to a permanent power source. When you install these grills indoors for permanent use, its a good idea to locate them close to an existing range hood if they do not have there own.

Gas grills are easy to use and also low maintenance, for grills that use propane cylinders you just have to make sure you do not run out of gas. Volcanic rock is usually spread out below the grill and is heated by gas burners to give the food an authentic barbecue flavor. Rotisserie cooking is also an option for most of the larger gas grills. Just make sure you turn the gas off at the bottle when you have finished cooking to avoid any possibility of a gas leak.

Natural gas is fast becoming the preferred choice for outdoor and indoor grills. Natural gas burns a lot cleaner and is much cheaper compared to propane gas. You will need to get a licensed professional to connect you to the gas mains, but this extra cost is worth the benefits. You will save money long term and will not have to worry about running out of gas half way through your barbecue.

All good hardware stores stock the basic essential tools for barbecue grilling cooking. The most important is a long handle tong and fork so you don't singe the hairs on your arm when turning the food, next is a basting brush, butcher's knife, a apron so you don't get oil splashing on your clothes, slat and pepper shakers and sauce bottles.

You may want to include a grill basket for holding and turning fish and smaller meat cuts and vegetables, a few aluminum trays in different dimensions to use as drip pans under large roasts and spit-roasted food, a meat thermometer and a stainless steel roast tray is a must for roasting beef, chickens or turkeys.

If in case you have a fire flare and your gas grill is a natural gas type, close the gas mains line, extinguish any open flame. if the odor continues, without delay call your gas supplier or fire department.