It is the 4th of July weekend and let’s make it a very safe one. The history lesson is about what we all will be doing this weekend, Barbecuing, or as we say BBQ ing. so here is the History lesson’
Barbecue means to slow-cook meat at a low temperature for a long time over wood or charcoal.
As you know that cooking meat over wood fires have been here from the age of time, but it was not until the late 1800’s during western cattle drives that the word Barbecue was used.
Charcoal Briquettes were patented in Pennsylvanian in 1897, by Ellsworth B. A. Zwoyer.
But not until the 1920 did Henry Ford and Thomas Edison invented the first briquette, then a gentleman named E. G. Kingford bought Ford’s patent and that is when it was placed into commercial production.
So During the 1940 to early 1950 George Stephen made the first, shallow sheet metal pan sitting atop 3 spindly legs, no lid, called the Brazier Grill. Not until the early 1950 when George Stephen Sr. a worker at Weber Bros. Metal Spinning Co. So the First Weber grill was released in 1952. So now you know the rest of the story.
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