Get grilling on your new outdoor barbecue pit.
A barbecue pit can be as simple and crude as a hole in the ground filled with coals. To make things a little more sophisticated and permanent you can create a surface-mortared brick pit which can also double as a fire pit if you are in the mood for toasted marshmallows instead of grilled sausages. This method of mortaring is much easier than traditional brick mortaring and even total amateurs should be able to manage a decent job. Does this Spark an idea?
Instructions
1. Place the barbecue plate in position where you want the barbecue pit to go. It can be a round or rectangular plate. The substrate should be concrete, pavers or other fire-safe material.
2. Trace around the outside of the barbecue plate with a pencil. Dry lay the first row of bricks over the middle of the traced line. Leave four ¼-inch gaps evenly spaced around the first course of bricks for ventilation.
3. Lay the second course of bricks, staggering the joints of the bricks. Continue laying courses until your pit is around 24-inches high.
4. Place the metal grate on the bottom of the pit and place your barbecue coals on top. Fit the barbecue plate over the top of the pit; it should extend over the entire top with half a brick's width on all sides.
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