BARBECUE VS. JAFFLE

  
Barbie

   In Australia, the most traditional meals involve around the barbecue, the “Barbie” as they say in Australia.

  Coal or Gas?

The Barbie, as a real science, starts with the purchase of the barbecue itself. Since the models which are available are enormous, there are even specialized stores for that!!! Australian frequently eat barbecue grills, but since those of coal are known to be carcinogen, in Australia they prefer the gas system.

Either way, it becomes almost impossible to make a charcoal barbecue, since it is difficult to find the bags of coal without taking and walking for miles until you can identify where it is.

And what we can eat with all this?

Chicken sausage

Differently the rest of barbecues, the Australian one is much more sophisticated… At the butcher or supermarket, we can find a variety of sausages that will make the choice very difficult!!! Beef sausages with dried tomatoes and basil, chicken sausage with cheese, sausages with honey and ginger, chicken sausage with lime and chili… we will also find several varieties of “balls” of meat called “Rissoles”, honey lamb and cheese, garlic and herbs, traditional beef, etc.

Buying and Australian barbecue recipes cookbook is obviously something indispensable!

   JAFFLE: a toasted sandwich

   The exact origin of this new culinary concept is still uncertain, but all the hints point at Australia where the most probable trace of the jaffle background was found.

Nomadic aborigines of this country cooked their game’s meat of the day by squeezing it between two slices of dough over a wood fire, with a large clip.

However, a slight shift in the manufacture of the mold has transformed this “squeezed” sandwich into a “hermetic sealed sandwich”.

    It was then that two adventurer travelers, great lovers of new culinary discoveries, brought in their trunks the new sandwich from the middle of nowhere and decided to make it known among their fellows…

     But for that, they had to replace the Australian desert fires by means more suited to urban areas. The name of this sandwich stems from the word “waffle”; from the Australian vocabulary.

    Thus after thousands of kilometers and many culinary adaptations and manipulations, the jaffle was born, as a sort of crunches, smaller, more closed and more useful and handy to eat.   

    A marvel of flavors wrapped in toasted bread, a concentration of delight and pleasure to crunch, sweet or salty, which combines tradition, travel and imagination.

    Indeed, that explains why, while crunching natural flavors, one begins to dream of somewhere else.