{"id":11982,"date":"2025-06-09T10:42:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-09T09:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.craneandco.co.uk\/pages\/?p=11982"},"modified":"2025-06-09T10:42:00","modified_gmt":"2025-06-09T09:42:00","slug":"three-sizzling-hot-barbecue-ideas-for-summer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.craneandco.co.uk\/pages\/three-sizzling-hot-barbecue-ideas-for-summer\/","title":{"rendered":"Three Sizzling Hot Barbecue Ideas for Summer"},"content":{"rendered":"

Barbecue season is now well and truly upon us. Here are three trending ideas that are sure to brighten up your barbecues this summer.<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n

Smashburgers<\/strong><\/h3>\n

A smashburger is an ultra-thin burger that is cooked super quickly.<\/p>\n

You can make smashburgers with any kind of meat, or with veggie and vegan ingredients too.<\/p>\n

Take a burger \u2013 shop bought or homemade \u2013 and place it between two pieces of greaseproof paper. Use a steak tenderiser or rolling pin to smash it down to a thickness of 5 – 10mm.<\/p>\n

To cook a smashburger, grill it for one to two minutes on one side. Then flip it over and grill it for a minute or two on the other side. Using a griddle pan makes things easier. Check it\u2019s thoroughly cooked before serving.<\/p>\n

The idea of a smashburger is that by cooking it quickly all the flavour and juiciness is kept, whilst the outside is crisp but not burned.<\/p>\n

Global barbecue flavours<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n

Global flavours on your barbecue are a hot trend this year.<\/p>\n

Popular flavours include Mexican, Japanese, Malaysian and Balinese. Korean, which gives an irresistible sweet-but-smoky taste to your food, is a good choice too.<\/p>\n

To make Korean barbecue sauce or marinade, mix together soy sauce, sesame oil, white wine vinegar, brown sugar, ginger, finely chopped garlic and spring onions.<\/p>\n

You can use Korean barbecue sauce on most meats (spare ribs and pork chops work well), vegetables and tofu.<\/p>\n

Plank grilling<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

This one is bound to impress your barbecue guests.<\/p>\n

First, you\u2019ll need to source some wooden grilling planks. These are hard to find in the shops, but online retailers such as Amazon have them.<\/p>\n

Grilling planks come in different wood types to impart different flavours to your food. Cedar wood is popular. Cherry, maple and oak are other options.<\/p>\n

Soak your grilling planks in water for at least an hour so they don\u2019t burn.<\/p>\n

You can barbecue almost any kind of food on a grilling plank. They\u2019re perfect for cooking fish, which is notoriously tricky to cook on a barbecue.<\/p>\n

We hope you\u2019ve found these ideas inspiring and that they\u2019ll spice up your barbecues this summer.<\/span> <\/strong><\/h3>\n

If you know someone who is a big fan of barbecues, please feel free to share this article with them.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Barbecue season is now well and truly upon us. Here are three trending ideas that are sure to brighten up your barbecues this summer. Smashburgers A smashburger is an ultra-thin burger that is cooked super quickly. You can make smashburgers with any kind of meat, or with veggie and vegan ingredients too. Take a burger […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":11983,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"content-type":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[25,22],"class_list":["post-11982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-personal-advice-from-our-team","tag-jerry","tag-seasonal"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.craneandco.co.uk\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.craneandco.co.uk\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.craneandco.co.uk\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.craneandco.co.uk\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.craneandco.co.uk\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11982"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.craneandco.co.uk\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11982\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11984,"href":"https:\/\/www.craneandco.co.uk\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11982\/revisions\/11984"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.craneandco.co.uk\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.craneandco.co.uk\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.craneandco.co.uk\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.craneandco.co.uk\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}