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Most barbecues come boxed as flat packs, which usually implies that you have to assemble the unit first. With a simple small tabletop model, it’s a piece of cake, but with a large (smoker or gas) barbecue, you’ll spend some time figuring out where to put what. The better brands supply a good instruction booklet along with it, but it still takes patience to make sense of it. Manufacturers of inexpensive products not infrequently suffice with a brief folding sheet and you’ll be lucky if there’s a sentence on it in understandable Dutch. So if you are not so tech-savvy, an assembly service is well worth considering. The Online Barbecue Shop offers that option in combination with home delivery.

In addition to assembly, which you may not have anticipated, there are a few aspects that get in the way of a hasty start. Because in addition to a barbecue, fuel to start a fire and food to prepare, you will also need to get some tools you are going to need. Moreover, any new barbecue requires a short (or in the case of a cast-iron smoker, a longer) period of warm-up.

How much fun you will soon have with your barbecue hinges on your first experience. Therefore, it is not such a good idea to buy a barbecue in the afternoon only to want to put it into official use the same evening. Rather, allow yourself a trial session in advance