Ten years into the future...feasted like kings post-hurricane Helene because I remembered your video! We were able to share our hot meals with our neighbors, too. We even had a shake of cayenne in your honor! 😊Thank you so very much for all of the hard work you have put into making these vids over the last decade!
@dboyedoe So sorry about the late reply! We survived! Thank you so very much for asking! I hope this message finds you happy & well in these troubling times.
You just found the best solution to our BBQ issue! We did some pretty big work around the house that required us to destroy our garden, so we can't invest on a BBQ this year. This seems like the best option! Thank youuuu
I did it!! Charcoals grey, today I did a pack of pre marinade chilli chicken skewers. This was my first barbecue in my house. I will do it every day till I am better at it. Then I'm going to get my cast iron grate. Thanks Chef John.
that is a great idea. some folks like gas grills and i do to but sometimes i really crave the charcoal grill taste and that is a quick and easy way to create a 'grill' out of stuff I already have around the house. thank you for the video!!!
Iam from Pakistan. There is lockdown thats why we are close at home looking the Bar B Q ideas for my terrace.. Very simple idea but highly appreciated... Love from Pakistan❤️❤️
I was looking for a DIY stove top grill, using those disposable aluminum baking trays and found this...I just LOVE this idea. My next best option...yeah!
Thanks John for your wonderful style. In an insane world, I just relax listening to you like the sun bursting through the clouds. Also definitely going to try this. Maybe with my homegrown sweet corn 😊
I love this video, I am returning the metal one i bought yesterday. This is the kind of stuff the Portuguese use and they have one in every house. Thank you chef!
Im brazilian and have a brick one except this one in the video is too low. I make mine way taller so i dont have to bend over so much. Store bought metal grill are for pussies
Ash from charcoals and from hardwood ash, are a good source of potassium (potash) for your plants (about 3% P). As a very alkaline material, ash can also balance your soil pH if its becoming more acidic. You can also use charcoal / hardwood ash as a soap-making ingredient, or even as a basic soap on its own with water. :)
If you want it to be more than "temporary" spend the money for fire rated bricks. They will hold up. General bricks will crack, flake, and eventually fall apart from the heating and cooling. Use general bricks to make it waist high, then use fire bricks to make the BBQ pit.
Chef Jon, you are brilliant!! I never could have imagined something like that could have ever worked. Thank you so much for sharing this fantastic idea. No matter where you are or where you go, you can always enjoy a BBQ. Cheers 😀😀
I *LOVE* this idea! I have an iron table and chairs...I can build this on the table and while we sit on chairs around the table we can grill our own food! What awesomeness!
totally doing this for our backyard! we have a smoker in need of some TLC and this grill will do the trick while we figure out how to revive it. cheers!
Not too long ago (a couple of weeks ago), I cleared out my backyard from months of neglect and overgrown weeds. Now, I have space to try and make my own brick grill! Thanks for the inspiration, Chef John! (I admit though that I really would want to put in an outdoor, wood-fired brick oven for making authentic Neapolitan pizzas someday.) Btw, I don't think ash from burning a store-bought brand of charcoal is safe/ideal for your soil (much less for whatever you have growing there), especially when you consider that they can be chock-full of crazy chemicals/synthetic catalysts. However, if it's ash from burning "natural wood charcoal", then yeah, it should be okay.
Wow, my husband and I are so going to have to do this. We haven't wanted to get a grill since it would likely go missing in our neighborhood, but we've missed grilling outdoors. This would be perfect for our needs. Thanks so much for sharing this idea! :D
Thanks to you Chef John again! I have been practising using your Brick Hibachi grill, even if I wasn't cooking. I have got the heat distribution physics right by now. Today I followed a recipe how to grill sardines Portuguese style ( with the heads on). I want to thank you from the depths of my heart for making this video. I have enjoyed what I probably wouldn't have enjoyed with an expensive kettle charcoal grill costing in excess of £200.00. Thank you once again.
Thanks chef John! I heat my house with a wood burning stove and have often thought it would be great to simply scoop out some glowing embers for a quick grilling. However I never attempted this because my thinking was to place the embers in my Weber kettle grill which I knew was too big to make the plan efficient. I could only scoop out so many embers and run them outside while still keeping the fire roaring inside. Now seeing this video I know my instant wood fired grill can become a reality very easily! I have an old pot to carry the hot embers, an old grill grate, and old bricks so I can be in business in 5 minutes. I cant believe I did not think of this myself, but then again I did think to watch your video, so I'm not totally stupid after all.
I could listen to this guy read the phone book for hours. For those that don't know. It was a very thick book that contained phone number listings of phone numbers of people and business that had dumb telephones, not to be confused with smart phones.
This is so perfect for our new apartment, which has a nice cement slab patio in the back. I have two questions if anyone can please help....1) Are those types of heavy grilltops easy to find? And 2) if you placed the floor of bricks down on the cement patio, do you think it would cause discoloration on the cement because of heat? Thanks!
thank you! this is the best idea i've seen for a quick build diy grill! that said, does anyone have ideas for what i can do to avoid kneeling on the ground to cook a steak? like a way to make legs or set it on top of something without burning that thing?
You would need a lot more bricks, but after the first layer is put down you could keep layering until you have the height that you want and then follow his design.
Made one like this just a little bit longer & it work great on my Jerk Chicken & Jerk Pork & steamed some fish on it to. Great video & easy to do respect sir
I've seen a few TV chefs cut a trough 6 to 12 inches down into the ground layer it with bricks and have it go real long but but only as wide as a little less than the skewers length so you can have a party where everybody puts their own skewers (there's a table with all the ingredients for the skewers people make up their own skewers and cook them themselves) over the coals with the skewers being long enough to go from one brick to the other you don't even need a grate.
My father used to make Bihare Kabab like this ...Ate it since childhood ...its sooper Dooper tasty ...yummy ...mouth waters ...but he made me a Real good expert in cooking...
Wrong to speak the name of a psychopath outside of horror subjects! Blood-sport and innocent animals= EVIL. And no amount of "he did his time" lip-service forgives or excuses it ever!
Lodge Hibachi Grill runs for $105 on Amazon right now (used to be around $80). With this idea, I can get the same results for much less. And this has a few added benefits; you can increase the height of the grill, it doesn't rust, no spare parts to buy in case you break something. Thanks!
Oh, and remember to keep the bricks dry, if you use a wet brick for this, they'll either spit super hot shards at you or will just explode, this I say from experience!! :S
@@gilberthurtado1984 Oh good grief, how dangerous is that!!! I was about to recommend this method to a friend whose hibachi got damaged during a move. Now, no way.
I did this at the park the other day with aluminum foil lining the bottom and large stones placed on the side. I felt so ghetto cause Ive never seen anyone else do it before until now lol
It's a cool idea but you should really be using kiln-fired bricks. Normal bricks can mess your day up if they explode and sharp chips start flying everywhere.
@@aninditasaha4610 land is expensive in America and lot many people do not have big backyards unless you are super rich..in India we have large places cuz it’s a part of our home(spacious design) but theirs is designed to be as much space efficient as possible
Ten years into the future...feasted like kings post-hurricane Helene because I remembered your video! We were able to share our hot meals with our neighbors, too. We even had a shake of cayenne in your honor! 😊Thank you so very much for all of the hard work you have put into making these vids over the last decade!
Hope you're recovering!!
@dboyedoe So sorry about the late reply! We survived! Thank you so very much for asking! I hope this message finds you happy & well in these troubling times.
You just found the best solution to our BBQ issue! We did some pretty big work around the house that required us to destroy our garden, so we can't invest on a BBQ this year. This seems like the best option! Thank youuuu
I did it!! Charcoals grey, today I did a pack of pre marinade chilli chicken skewers. This was my first barbecue in my house. I will do it every day till I am better at it. Then I'm going to get my cast iron grate. Thanks Chef John.
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I love this very easy bbq/ grill idea. Thanks! I can hardly wait to do this as soon as the winter is over.
that is a great idea. some folks like gas grills and i do to but sometimes i really crave the charcoal grill taste and that is a quick and easy way to create a 'grill' out of stuff I already have around the house. thank you for the video!!!
Iam from Pakistan. There is lockdown thats why we are close at home looking the Bar B Q ideas for my terrace.. Very simple idea but highly appreciated... Love from Pakistan❤️❤️
I was looking for a DIY stove top grill, using those disposable aluminum baking trays and found this...I just LOVE this idea. My next best option...yeah!
Thanks John for your wonderful style. In an insane world, I just relax listening to you like the sun bursting through the clouds.
Also definitely going to try this. Maybe with my homegrown sweet corn 😊
Excellent! You are such a great teacher! Thank you Chef John!
I love that you did a diy cooking video. It’s follows your style well. Always great videos and tutorials.
Love the simplicity of this. Great video.
fantastic english accent. so chill, sounds like everything is just simple and works, nothing needs to be worried about
Chef, I love your recipes and more than the cooking your style of explanation. So kind of you. Many thanks.
Very nice grill. The safety precautions were very helpful and need to be addressed. Great Job!
Great video, can't believe people give thumbs down on DIY videos.
I love this video, I am returning the metal one i bought yesterday. This is the kind of stuff the Portuguese use and they have one in every house. Thank you chef!
Im brazilian and have a brick one except this one in the video is too low. I make mine way taller so i dont have to bend over so much. Store bought metal grill are for pussies
LOL
You would be the best dad or uncle ever!!!!
If this guy had a tv show. I would watch every episode, maybe twice. Commentary is brilliant.
Chef, you are so funny! I enjoy your videos and humor.
I have quite a bit of bricks, just haven't been motivated. Your method is simple and great, I'm doing this now! Thanks.
Ash from charcoals and from hardwood ash, are a good source of potassium (potash) for your plants (about 3% P). As a very alkaline material, ash can also balance your soil pH if its becoming more acidic. You can also use charcoal / hardwood ash as a soap-making ingredient, or even as a basic soap on its own with water. :)
You are the freak-en master of culinary and backyard grilling.
If you want it to be more than "temporary" spend the money for fire rated bricks. They will hold up. General bricks will crack, flake, and eventually fall apart from the heating and cooling. Use general bricks to make it waist high, then use fire bricks to make the BBQ pit.
Thanks!! so informative, I'll be doing a bit more research and do that.
how about using cement bricks to make it waist high?
You can use almost anything to build it up. The area where the fire is you want fireplace rated brick.
Badboy7357 Even worse, red bricks can trap moisture that causes shards to go flying when it turns to steam.
Badboy7357 Or explode.
I found a brand new Weber Char Q on facebook marketplace and can't be happier! Love all your videos!!
So simple and easy thanks for this.
I love hearing your voice ... and your comments ... You are artist ... Greetings to you from the State of Kuwait 🇰🇼 💕
I not only learn from your videos, i enjoy your humor too.. thank you much =)
Very cool, budget friendly, Senior friendly, easy! Love it!
Wow never thought about grilling this way. Gonna try it this weekend!
Simple, straight to the point..... And it works!
Chef Jon, you are brilliant!! I never could have imagined something like that could have ever worked. Thank you so much for sharing this fantastic idea. No matter where you are or where you go, you can always enjoy a BBQ. Cheers 😀😀
I *LOVE* this idea! I have an iron table and chairs...I can build this on the table and while we sit on chairs around the table we can grill our own food! What awesomeness!
totally doing this for our backyard! we have a smoker in need of some TLC and this grill will do the trick while we figure out how to revive it. cheers!
Hey you ! Imagine meeting you here :-)
Hope you are well hun.
BigMeat Sunday It says that your name is verified... whats that? Is your name actually Bigmeat??
Ariyele Ressler Use firebricks in the cooker. Red bricks can cause injuries when trapped moisture steams.
Chef John...The man is a genius!!!👍👍🔥🔥🔥🔥
Not too long ago (a couple of weeks ago), I cleared out my backyard from months of neglect and overgrown weeds. Now, I have space to try and make my own brick grill! Thanks for the inspiration, Chef John!
(I admit though that I really would want to put in an outdoor, wood-fired brick oven for making authentic Neapolitan pizzas someday.)
Btw, I don't think ash from burning a store-bought brand of charcoal is safe/ideal for your soil (much less for whatever you have growing there), especially when you consider that they can be chock-full of crazy chemicals/synthetic catalysts. However, if it's ash from burning "natural wood charcoal", then yeah, it should be okay.
I have watched this video a few times. It's something about this set up that seem so fun. Thanks for sharing.
Wow, that's such a great idea! Thank you so much.
Ian from Pakistan &I like your oven v much which solves my problems. Thanks
Your voice is so relaxing thank you
You are an amazing teacher.
i love seeing all the plants!!
I just love your sense of humor.
Wow, my husband and I are so going to have to do this. We haven't wanted to get a grill since it would likely go missing in our neighborhood, but we've missed grilling outdoors. This would be perfect for our needs. Thanks so much for sharing this idea! :D
Thanks to you Chef John again! I have been practising using your Brick Hibachi grill, even if I wasn't cooking. I have got the heat distribution physics right by now. Today I followed a recipe how to grill sardines Portuguese style ( with the heads on). I want to thank you from the depths of my heart for making this video. I have enjoyed what I probably wouldn't have enjoyed with an expensive kettle charcoal grill costing in excess of £200.00. Thank you once again.
I like your voooiice! I just enjoy listening to you... and of course watching your video too!
Edwin from Costa Rica . Thank you for sharing !!! God bless !!!
Thanks chef John! I heat my house with a wood burning stove and have often thought it would be great to simply scoop out some glowing embers for a quick grilling. However I never attempted this because my thinking was to place the embers in my Weber kettle grill which I knew was too big to make the plan efficient. I could only scoop out so many embers and run them outside while still keeping the fire roaring inside.
Now seeing this video I know my instant wood fired grill can become a reality very easily! I have an old pot to carry the hot embers, an old grill grate, and old bricks so I can be in business in 5 minutes. I cant believe I did not think of this myself, but then again I did think to watch your video, so I'm not totally stupid after all.
Thanks I am highly satisfied by your video😍
That Grill looks Grate!
+Slimm Jimm LOL 'Grill'.
1st warning 😑
Really like this post. I don't have any suggestions yet, but more videos like this would be most welcome. Thanks!
This is awesome! Thank you for the DIY Chef John!
Oh yes!!! Priceless video - thanks for sharing Chef John!!
I could listen to this guy read the phone book for hours.
For those that don't know. It was a very thick book that contained phone number listings of phone numbers of people and business that had dumb telephones, not to be confused with smart phones.
James Nelson lolol right...for those that don't know. Hilarious!
Well the youngsters don't know what a rotary phone is, and they think Winston Churchill is a cool name for a cat.
Payhole Everdouche Winston Churchill is a cool name for a cat!
😂
I remember looking up friends numbers in the phone book
I love ur idea😊
Love from Pakistan
Both Idea of grill and narration throughout the video was good like it really very much ... 😊
Fantastic thank you I'm going to make one for my mum can't wait
He has a comical way of speaking. I Like it.
kthejung lol me too
I thought Im the only one that notice it. I thought because Im not speaking English as first language, maybe Im mistaken or something. haha
kthejung And his voice gets more "comical" every new video he uploads. Lets see how much you'll like it then.
Sounds like that bloke who runs the sauna in frozen
kthejung cornball
Just amazing ❤️❤️
this looks really awesome, so can you cook like hamburgers and steaks and whatnot, i'd love to do some summer grilling, but alas no grill
Happy to find this 6 year old video. Will try this out in the summer.
This is so perfect for our new apartment, which has a nice cement slab patio in the back. I have two questions if anyone can please help....1) Are those types of heavy grilltops easy to find? And 2) if you placed the floor of bricks down on the cement patio, do you think it would cause discoloration on the cement because of heat? Thanks!
This is so easy. Love it! Gonna do it tomorrow. 💕💕💕
The way you talk is so funny 😂 😂
He most definitely moved a bunch of plants and lawn ornaments into the frame. SHOWOFF! :)
Haha, I was thinking that too.
Haha, I'm guessing that's true but it's a nice touch :)
Andrew Forrest bitch !
Andrew Forrest That is the empty half of the cup, or we could think of him trying to make it beautiful for us the viewers to enjoy :)
Ameen
Farzad Fani Pakdel
It looks aesthetically pleasing
thank you! this is the best idea i've seen for a quick build diy grill! that said, does anyone have ideas for what i can do to avoid kneeling on the ground to cook a steak? like a way to make legs or set it on top of something without burning that thing?
You would need a lot more bricks, but after the first layer is put down you could keep layering until you have the height that you want and then follow his design.
Made one like this just a little bit longer & it work great on my Jerk Chicken & Jerk Pork & steamed some fish on it to. Great video & easy to do respect sir
did any one else notice more and more flower pots pop up over time it goes form 0 to 4 plant pots
You're right. Changes from scene to scene.
This would be great for the beach.
Fantastic idea
Once again Chef John, today I did Sardines with their heads on and Baba Ganoush ( aubergines dish). Thank you every time.!!
This is a really great idea, thanks!
I've seen a few TV chefs cut a trough 6 to 12 inches down into the ground layer it with bricks and have it go real long but but only as wide as a little less than the skewers length so you can have a party where everybody puts their own skewers (there's a table with all the ingredients for the skewers people make up their own skewers and cook them themselves) over the coals with the skewers being long enough to go from one brick to the other you don't even need a grate.
Doing that sh
Nothing puts a damper on a backyard barbecue as a wildfire. LMAO.
Yeah. It's a bad sign if there are fire trucks in front of your house.
I'm interested in your life story.
My father used to make Bihare Kabab like this ...Ate it since childhood ...its sooper Dooper tasty ...yummy ...mouth waters ...but he made me a Real good expert in cooking...
Very nicely done Chef!
Chef john you are the best !
Use fire brick for best results. They will last longer and reflect more heat.
They are also much harder to come by and several times the price.
it depends, some fire bricks absorb heat instead of reflecting it
Can I lay regular bricks on ground, THEN the fire bricks on top? I would like it a bit more higher. Thanks.
Excellent idea you can actually do the same with cement blocks or on top of of a metal table
You are the Michael Vick of your fired bricks.
Yo dawg, you know why Micheal isn't allowed to use his grill any more? Because he keeps trying to pit the food against itself.
Throw on some hot dogs.
Wrong to speak the name of a psychopath outside of horror subjects! Blood-sport and innocent animals= EVIL. And no amount of "he did his time" lip-service forgives or excuses it ever!
Artemisia Gentileschi... oh please! Let he who is sinless cast the first stone!
Your videos are always informational and funny ! thanks
Lodge Hibachi Grill runs for $105 on Amazon right now (used to be around $80).
With this idea, I can get the same results for much less. And this has a few added benefits; you can increase the height of the grill, it doesn't rust, no spare parts to buy in case you break something.
Thanks!
This is a great and affordable idea...... Thanks John, you are the best!!
Oh, and remember to keep the bricks dry, if you use a wet brick for this, they'll either spit super hot shards at you or will just explode, this I say from experience!! :S
why would you wet your bricks?
It happen to me I was using river slab stones from lowes got so hot bubbles starting forming then it blew up almost hit me nephew in the throat
@@gilberthurtado1984 ج
@@gilberthurtado1984 Oh good grief, how dangerous is that!!! I was about to recommend this method to a friend whose hibachi got damaged during a move. Now, no way.
@@gilberthurtado1984 You'd think a pirate family would be used to danger like that.
extremely interesting narrative style ... refreshing
Your fantastic great presentations very professional and fun to watch
i actually tried this it works!
I love this thanks for sharing. And I really enjoy listening to your descriptions😊😊
What is this bucket thing for charcoal? I've never seen anything like it.
Its called "chimney starter" or "charcoal chimney". Due to it's shape and the holes, the charcoal ignites very quickly.
Luhtännet Körnel Thanks, I'll look it up :)
Ive made one of those when welding in school.
U only need about 10 pages of newspaper to get a perfect glow on ur charcoal.
Luhtännet Körnel You're picture fit that so fucking well...
Chef John you are my favourite 💯♥️🇬🇧
I'm here because somebody emailed the link to me.
dont cook until white bro
burned literally lol
Howie Benatovitch cas
Howie Benatovitch 2.47...
@@hillaryrono2593, your grilling isn't good.
👌👌👌 love such old style grills
I did this at the park the other day with aluminum foil lining the bottom and large stones placed on the side. I felt so ghetto cause Ive never seen anyone else do it before until now lol
Hey it works, it works.
I asked the same thing. I put a foil in my actual charcoal grill helps within clean up and for fine reason keeps the heat in one place .
My brother once dug a hole in his backyard as a smoking pit because he didn’t have a smoker
Fantastic!
That's awesome lol
simple and nice
It's a cool idea but you should really be using kiln-fired bricks. Normal bricks can mess your day up if they explode and sharp chips start flying everywhere.
Cool! Totally making this grill when we go to the lake.
where do you buy a grill grate?
Use your oven grate... seriously..it's detachable...
I was just searching for that 😍😍😍😊 thanks man #foodwishes....love from kolkata,india
You live in San Francisco and you have a back yard? Woah! You must be a billionaire.
Lol, I was just thinking the same thing. XD
He borrowed other's land
it's funny I was thinking the same
Sorry if I sound dumb.. I am from India so I don't know much about American cities.. but what does this comment mean?
@@aninditasaha4610 land is expensive in America and lot many people do not have big backyards unless you are super rich..in India we have large places cuz it’s a part of our home(spacious design) but theirs is designed to be as much space efficient as possible
The way you talk.. it's addictive :)
one you've aced the base.... oh my! LOL