Cooking with the Weber® Q™ for Australia and New Zealand

1 Cooking with the Weber Q for Australia and New Zealand WARRANTY Weber may require proof of the date of CONTENTS. purchase of the Weber barbecue and therefore Weber-Stephen Products Co (Aust.) Pty the consumer should retain the sales docket How to get the best from your Weber QTM 2. Ltd care of R McDonald Co Pty Ltd of and return the Weber Customer Care Card Helpful hints for the Weber Q 3. 104 South Terrace, Adelaide, SA 5000, immediately. Telephone: (08) 8221 6111, Facsimile: (08). The benefits conferred by this warranty are in Recipes 8221 6211 and addition to all the other rights and remedies Sunday Breakfast 7. Weber-Stephen Products New Zealand to a consumer under the Commonwealth of care of R McDonald Co. New Zealand Ltd of Salmon Fillet with Crispy Skin & Thai Cucumber Salad 9. Australia Competition and Consumer Act 2010. 6 Maurice Road, Penrose, Auckland, 1643, or other Commonwealth or State legislation Meat Lovers Pizza 11. Telephone: 0800 493 237, and this warranty does not purport to limit or Porterhouse Steaks 13.

2 , hereby warrants to the original exclude such rights and remedies. Prawn Satay with Peanut Dipping Sauce 15. purchaser of the Weber Barbecue (providing it is assembled and operated in accordance Greek Style Roast Leg of Lamb 17. with the printed instructions accompanying it). Roast Chicken 19. that it will be free from defects in material and THANK YOU FOR CHOOSING A. workmanship from the date of purchase. Baked Snapper 21. WEBER Q BARBECUE. Traditional Bread and Butter Pudding 23. 1. a) Aluminium castings 5 years We know you will quickly begin to enjoy Christmas Turkey 25. b) Paint 2 years c) Igniter 5 years many memorable barbecued meals on your d) Burners 5 years Weber Q. To help you get started we've Barbecuing and Roasting Guide 26. e) Cooking grill 5 years included this Weber Q Cooking guide which includes some of our favourite recipes. To get Weber Q Accessories 29. f) Thermoplastic and thermoset parts (excluding fading) 5 years the best results, you need to use the correct g) All remaining parts 2 years heat settings as shown in the barbecuing and roasting instructions.

3 In addition to the Weber shall at no cost to the consumer, upon recipes, you'll find a barbecuing and roasting such defects occurring, at its option repair or guide' on the last few pages. This provides an replace such faulty materials or workmanship. estimate of the Cooking times for many of the dishes you may like to try. Our goods come with guarantees that cannot If you need advice or would like some help you be excluded under the Australian Consumer can either call us on: Law. You are entitled to a replacement or 1300 301 290 ( Australia ). refund for a major failure and for compensation 0800 493 237 (New Zealand ). for any other reasonably foreseeable loss or email us at: or damage. You are also entitled to have the ( Australia ). goods repaired or replaced if the goods fail to (New Zealand ). be of acceptable quality and the failure does You'll find the people in our company will go not amount to a major failure. out of their way to help you. If you would like to fill in your warranty This limited warranty does not cover any details or need information about any of our defects, failures, operating difficulties or barbecues or accessories visit our website at damage caused due to accident, abuse, ( Australia ).

4 Misuse, alteration, misapplication, improper (New Zealand ). installation, connection of any other apparatus Thank you again, and happy Weber-Q-ing. other than authorised Weber products, improper maintenance or service or failure to perform normal and routine maintenance. How to get the best from your Weber Q . Barbecuing Roasting and baking Second, you will achieve outstanding barbecue Your QTM has been designed to cook magnificent When a recipe in this book requires you to roast' flavour that you can't get by Cooking with the steaks. To get the best results with steak, cook on or bake', it is recommended that you remove the lid open. This is produced when barbecue smoke the grill bars rather than on a hotplate. Only use hotplate (if you have one), place both Cooking is circulated all around the meat, imparting a a hotplate when there is the potential for a lot of grills in the barbecue and use a Q convection beautiful smokey flavour. fat to come away from the meat or when Cooking tray and Q trivet.

5 The convection tray and trivet Third, Cooking times are greatly reduced (about eggs, pancakes and the like. When a recipe in this will transform your Q from Cooking in barbecue half of what you might expect on an open Cooking guide requires you to barbecue', it is mode to oven mode in seconds. The convection barbecue), which means you can barbecue the recommended that you turn the meat only once, tray is engineered with vents designed to circulate same amount using a lot less gas. As less gas is halfway through Cooking . Always barbecue with the heat perfectly all around the food. The vents required to cook the food, you don't need to fill the lid closed, these barbecues are not designed allow the fat from the roast to drain away, falling the gas bottle anywhere near as often (a 9kg gas to cook with the lid up. Even when Cooking on a between the grill bars and into the drip pan below. bottle will last for over 36 hours of Cooking ). hotplate always cook with the lid down.

6 To set up your Q for roasting and baking, place a Whether you are barbecuing meat on the grill convection tray on the grill so the four locating C Use natural convection'. or on the breakfast plate, it is important that tabs sit inside the covered area of your Cooking to get the best results you preheat the barbecue before Cooking . The grill. The tray should now be positioned in the that's why it is essential to use a convection tray Remember, these barbecues use natural convection instructions for pre-heating your Q follow. middle of your Q Cooking grill. Place the Q trivet and trivet when roasting with these settings. It is to cook food perfectly. To assist convection, try not on the tray (photograph B). You are now set up to normal for there to be a slight drop in temperature to cover more than two thirds of the Cooking grill Preheating and barbecuing roast or bake. when you open the lid and put your food in the at one time. Whilst they will cook with the whole To preheat your Q, open the lid, unfold the When roasting or baking you must preheat the barbecue.

7 Don't worry; the temperature will rise Cooking surface covered, the results are far better if work surfaces and turn the burner control barbecue. The instructions for preheating the Q again over the Cooking time. Remember, there you barbecue in two or three batches when feeding knob to START/HI (photograph A). Immediately for roasting and baking follow. is no need to turn the meat when roasting, so a crowd. press the ignition button to light the barbecue. try not to open the lid unnecessarily. For more When roasting, make sure the height of your food Preheating and roasting or baking information on roasting and baking on your fits inside with the lid closed. To allow the air to To preheat your Q, open the lid and place the Q, have a look at the videos on our website at circulate properly you should use a convection tray convection tray and trivet in position. Turn the ( Australia ) and Q trivet and make sure you have clearance burner control knob to START/HI (Photograph A).

8 (New Zealand ) between your food and the lid. How often should you turn the meat? Roasting tip Your Q will produce the most impressive food Getting the timing right so that your roast when you let the convection process' do its work is cooked to your liking can be difficult at with minimum interruption. For this reason, resist times when Cooking outside. Wind, ambient the temptation to continually turn the food. Each temperature and the temperature of the meat time you turn the food you have to raise the lid, when you start Cooking all influence the amount allowing the hot air to escape. When barbecuing of time a roast needs to be cooked. meat, outstanding results are achieved if you use One of the best ways to make sure you get tongs to turn the meat (once only) halfway through A your roast cooked just the way you like it is the Cooking time. Roasts, on the other hand, should to use a meat thermometer. With a standard never need turning. Once alight, close the lid and allow the barbecue meat thermometer you can read the internal to heat up for 10 minutes.

9 Your Q is now preheated temperature of the meat, so you can tell when Food sticking to the grill and ready for barbecuing. Leave the burner setting B it's cooked to your liking. An internal meat When barbecuing food, the meat can sometimes on START/HI throughout the barbecuing process. temperature Cooking chart is included in the stick to the hot grill. If the meat is properly branded Remember to always cook with the lid down. If you Immediately press the ignition button to light the Barbecuing and roasting guide' at the end of this (2 to 3 minutes) before you turn it, it will not stick. are Cooking with a hotplate, allow 10 to 15 minutes barbecue. Preheat the barbecue for 10 minutes with booklet. People trying to turn the meat too early often have for it to heat up. Always preheat the plate with the burner control knob on START/HI and the lid this sticking' problem. Don't tear it, just leave the the lid down and test it with a droplet of water closed.

10 Once your QTM is preheated, turn the burner Helpful hints for the Weber Q meat where it is and it will come free once properly to make sure it's hot enough to cook on. For more control knob to the medium setting (Photograph C). Always cook with the lid closed branded. information on barbecuing and using a hotplate on Your Q is ready for roasting and baking. You No matter whether you are Cooking a roast, your Q, have a look at the videos on our website at can now place your food inside the Q. Continue a barbecue or breakfast on a hotplate, Using sauces and glazes ( Australia ) Cooking using these settings until the end of always cook with the lid closed. Why? Only apply sauces or glazes that have a high sugar (New Zealand ) the Cooking time. Unlike an indoor oven, your Q First, Cooking with the lid closed creates natural content during the last 10 to 15 minutes of Cooking . uses natural convection, allowing you to cook at convection of the air inside the barbecue.