Name: Learn English Phrasal Verbs: BBQ! “light up”, “put out”, “flip over”, “scrape down”...
Uploaded: 2020-10-31T19:16:17.000Z
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You eat some meat, you eat some vegetables, hey, eat whatever you want.

We're not doing the food thing here, are we?

So, I'm going to teach you both some barbecue basics and - hey, enjoy!

So, we have - the original word is barbecue.

We like to shorten it to BBQ, but we don't actually say "BBQ", that's kind of strange.

This is a variation of the spelling as well.

To me, this looks like it's French, but apparently it's a Spanish word in origin.

I'm going to write it like this - BBQ, but say barbecue just to make life interesting.

So, a very confusing thing is the word barbecue itself.

Like, oh, come to my house, have a barbecue.

It can also be the thing that we use to cook the food on.

Properly, we should call it - oh, I lost my hat - a grill.

But we don't say, "Oh, I'm going to go the barbecue.

But if you want to call it a grill, go ahead.

This means hey, get that thing hot because I'm going to come and slap my sausage on your

We have two very important choices when we're doing this.

Gas - which is usually propane, or charcoal.

Now, charcoal is a black coal made from pre-burnt wood.

So, my personal favorite is charcoal because it has the flavor that we all enjoy.

But a lot of people in Canada and in America, for some reason, they're using gas.

To me, it just tastes like making it in your house.

So, Ronnie's always going to have some charcoal on hand.

Get your hands dirty, get it all over your face.

So, if you have a gas grill, okay, very easy.

Phrasal verb number one, you're going to turn on the gas.

Or, with this phrasal verb you can also say, "Turn the gas on".

So, with these phrasal verbs in English, you have a choice.

You can put the noun between the verb and the preposition.

Verb and preposition, or if you'd like, you can put it at the end of the phrasal verb.

So, I can say, "Turn off the gas", or if I wanted to, I could say, "Turn the gas off".

Some do it - Oh, but if it's this, it's - No, same, same, same.

So, if you have charcoal however, there's some steps.

The first one is you have to ignite - fire - you have to light it up.

I recommend some gas, not too much though.

Something alcoholic - nope, I don't recommend alcohol.

You've got to drink that, it's a barbecue.

You can use oil if you don't have anything, but something that catches on fire, you're

going to need to help you out for your barbecue.

Hey, when you're finished your barbecue, you press a button, you turn it off.

So, you light it up and then when you're finished cooking, you're going to put out the fire.

This means you extinguish or kill the fire, because you don't want a fire in your park

or wherever you're having your delicious barbecue.

Prep is the sort form for "preparation", so this means you gotta spend some time in your

A lot of people marinate their meat, wow.

Now, we must be careful because, what is meat?

Somebody would just say, "I'm having meat."

Okay, there are many different kinds of meat, so maybe you're having beef.

So you have to be specific and say, "We're having beef."

The next thing you're going to do is you're going to cut up the vegetables.

You can say, "Cut up the veggies", which is short for vegetables.

Or, you can say, "Cut the vegetables up."

A marinade is usually something that has a very strong flavor.

You keep the meat in it for a couple of hours or overnight, so the meat absorbs the flavor.

Next up, what happens when you're actually cooking?

What is that person doing over there in front of the hot grill?

Well, you have to make sure your food doesn't burn, and that it's cooked properly, because

One thing you can do is you can flip the burgers over.

Or, because these are phrasal verbs, you can flip over the burgers.

This means you turn them from one side to the other.

If you're a very talented chef, maybe you can be - da da da, flip them over, hah!