to barbecue

Definition of to barbecue in English English dictionary: BBQ; To cook food on a barbecue; to grill; A fireplace or pit for grilling food, typically used outdoors and traditionally employing hot charcoal as the heating medium; A meal or event highlighted by food cooked on a barbecue
We're having a barbecue on Saturday, and you're invited.; Barbecue or barbeque (abbreviated BBQ or Bar-B-Que or diminuted, chiefly in Australia, New Zealand and the United Kingdom to barbie, and braai in South Africa) is a method and apparatus for cooking food, often meat, with the heat and hot gases of a fire, smoking wood, or hot coals of charcoal and may include application of a marinade or basting sauce to the meat. The term as a noun can refer to foods cooked by this method, to the cooker itself, or to a party that includes such food. The term is also used as a verb for the act of cooking food in this manner. Barbecue is usually cooked in an outdoor environment heated by the smoke of wood or charcoal, or with propane and similar gases. Restaurant barbecue may be cooked in large brick or metal ovens specially designed for that purpose; a cookout in which food is cooked over an open fire; especially a whole animal carcass roasted on a spit; A floor, on which coffee beans are sun- dried; {f} roast meat on a grill; bar·becue barbecues barbecuing barbecued in AM, also use barbeque, Bar-B-Q1. A barbecue is a piece of equipment which you use for cooking on in the open air; To dry or cure by exposure on a frame or gridiron; a rack to hold meat for cooking over hot charcoal usually out of doors; A stationary open hearth or brazier, either fuel fired or electric, used for food preparation (UBC); Meat cooked in the dry heat of wood coals at about the temperature of boiling point of water 180-215º Barbecuing can render the toughest lean and the greasiest fat meat into healthy, succulent, savory fare because the long cooking at low temperatures allows heat to be conducted to the center without the exterior drying out Fat is melted away, basting as it goes, while tissues soften to the consistency of a grandmother's heart Time on the grill -- 3 - 24 hours Time in attendance -- 10 minutes to a total of two hours The long cooking period allows for myriad savory seasonings and provides ample opportunity for pleasurable activities The consummate barbecuer excels in the latter as much as the former; To cook food on a grill, in an open pit or on a spit using natural woods or charcoal as a heat source The food is basted, often with a highly seasoned sauce, to keep it moist See Grill; To cook foods on a rack or spit over coals; cook outdoors on a barbecue grill; "let's barbecue that meat"; "We cooked out in the forest"; A hog, ox, or other large animal roasted or broiled whole for a feast; If you barbecue food, especially meat, you cook it on a barbecue. Tuna can be grilled, fried or barbecued Here's a way of barbecuing corn-on-the-cob that I learned in the States. barbecued chicken. barbeque to cook food on a metal frame over a fire outdoors; If someone has a barbecue, they cook food on a barbecue in the open air; A social entertainment, where many people assemble, usually in the open air, at which one or more large animals are roasted or broiled whole; meat that has been barbecued or grilled in a highly seasoned sauce; Traditionally made with tomatoes, onions, brown sugar, garlic and vinegar Barbecue sauce is used to baste barbecued meat; To roast or broil whole, as an ox or hog; a rack to hold meat for cooking over hot charcoal usually out of doors a cookout in which food is cooked over an open fire; especially a whole animal carcass roasted on a spit meat that has been barbecued or grilled in a highly seasoned sauce cook outdoors on a barbecue grill; "let's barbecue that meat"; "We cooked out in the forest; To cook by roasting or broiling, usually over charcoal or other open flame; To roast slowly on a spit or grid over slow-burning coals or under a broiler, usually basting with a highly seasoned sauce; {i} broiler, grill; meat which is cooked on a grill; sauce for grilled meat; outdoor party where grilled food is eaten