Camping BBQ stand

You've gone camping. You've bought some burgers, some sausages, a disposable bbq, and are all ready for dinner. However, the ground is dry as a bone and you are in serious danger of starting a forest fire if you light the barbecue directly on the ground, plus they burn better with air flow underneath them too, so what are you going to do? Here's a simple guide to making an instant BBQ stand just using tent pegs.

What you will need

A disposable BBQ
4 tent pegs
A mallet or hammer or rock
Sausages (well, any food will do, but everyone knows that emulsified high-fat offal tubes taste the best)

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Step 1: Get some tent pegs

To make this barbecue stand you are going to need to get 4 tent pegs, and a mallet. Any pegs will do, even the most badly bent ones. Did you bang every single tent peg in when putting your tent up? No, didn't think so. On the off chance that you did, take out 4 from your ground sheet - it's not going anywhere while you are cooking and isn't going to cause the tent to fall down.

SubZeroLosAngeles says: May 14, 2012. 7:11 PM

WoW! Pretty cool idea for BBQ! Thanks!

Barbecue Camping says: Jan 8, 2011. 6:54 AM

This new to me. Good though just new, never thought of this.Good tip thanks, usually I just try and find four rocks of the same size/shape, kinda flat if possible but big enough for elevation. Just place under the four corners of the disposable. But preferably like to take camping cooker :P

Good stuff here.

Check out some of my tips @ my Barbecue Camping blog!
Any comments would be great for feed back. Thanks in advance!

Good tips here.

Jamie ;)

woodvale035 says: Sep 1, 2010. 2:19 PM

dont want to sound like a fuss pot but a good practice is to scrape the surface covering of the ground first until down to a moist soil base so nothing can combust below the bbq. it gets very hot down there.... if the ground is very dry you can soak it in water first. could save a forest. if you want to, a good idea if you are cooking a lot of food is to leave the bbq high enough to slide a plate under to warm it or keep cooked food warm til all the rest is cooked. the foil base from a bbq can be cleaned and used under the next bbq for the above purpose, just slide it in long ways under the hot bbq. that made me hungry!!