South African traditional cooking “Braai”

[Badgerjacob]

The idea of the Braai, making coals and shoveling them under the grate, is what led me to my fireplace setup. Only used it once so far but will be doing it more often when it gets colder again.

http://www.bbq-brethren.com/forum/showthread.php?t=259013

I love it.

 

[yoursangoma]

My South African mates tell me Braii"" is simply meaning grilling meat over an open fire.
I showed them this design and they have never seen it.
Looks very interesting though.
They use Weber kettles and home made Grills over coals

That's what I always thought of when I lived in South Africa for 2 years. A braai was just the South African way to say BBQ, not necessarily a cooker. Never saw one of those when I was there.

 

[Badgerjacob]

I watched a video on Youtube and it answered the concerns of ash that most people have. I guess the misconception is you will have ash if you have burning wood. But before it becomes ash it is a red hot chunk of coal that you can easily spread around without the dust. I believe most people forget that...

Correct, I think I would need to make the grate large enough so that bigger coals could fall through.