Cookout time!, In the middle of January!! :D Options

[Ixith]

So yea....my dad and his best friend almost every weekend have a cookout....yes even in the winter. These cookouts consist of completely over the fire cookouts, so no propane grills for this type of cookout. We have a nice fire set up over our fire pit that allows us to cook stuff on a grill surface or allows for cast iron skillets and pots to be put over to cook their contents. Now the usual things they cook are of course stir fries or chili. Plus some basic cookout stuff like hamburgers and hot dogs.

Now....during the spring, summer, and early fall its nice and warm...then into the late fall it starts getting cold....but tonight topped them all in cold cookout nights. Let's just put it this way...tonight is suppose to be the coldest night of the season over here. 8°F Feels Like -5°F is the temperature and the wind chill factor for tonight. So yes....we were indeed cooking out in freezing weather. Our drinks were turning to slushies and we occasionally had to put them close to the fire so they would be less slushy. The hot sauce for the chili....FROZE in the bottle. A little bit of some Monster Energy drink that was spilled, froze within a minute on the table.

Fun story though...one winter they had a cookout and it started to drop down sleet on them....yet they continued their cookout. So there ended up being this circular area of dry spots with no ice while all around that there was like an inch of ice. XD yea extreme cookouts FTW!

But I have decided that the most fun cookouts are like this...in the freezing cold weather. It just makes the fire so much more fun and worth it. BTW the chili was amazing.

So yea....how about your guys' cookouts? have any good ones lately?
(BTW I shall get a picture of the cookout at the next one...hopefully)

[Aro]

I Take it your the Homer Simpson of your family? We used to have good ol' cookouts a few years ago, back when the weather was actually nice in the summer time. We stopped doing them after me and my brothers grew up (This was about five years ago). I remember seeing Steve (Disturbed) walking around with my Dad setting up the BBQ's while I was talking to other family members that I rarely saw. We've not had a family renuinion or family get-together in over five years now.