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How To Cook The Best Pizza At A BBQ
Posted on Friday 29th of July 2016Steak, burgers, sausages...these are considered the key ingredients of a summer barbecue. But have you ever considered making pizza the main course? With the right outdoor fireplace, stone cookers, and our guide on how to cook the best pizza at a BBQ, you can recreate the feel and freshness of your favourite Italian restaurants in the warm familiarity of your back garden. Choosing the right cooker/oven There’s no point striving to create the ultimate BBQ pizza if you don’t have...Read More

5 Of The Best Outdoor Fire Bowls
Posted on Friday 22nd of April 2016Fire bowls offer a convenient, low-tech and ultimately more affordable alternative to the more standard fireplaces. They’re ideal for summer use, and save you the effort of seeking out wood to burn or the hassle of a hassle-filled installation. Even better, there’s plenty of variety in the designs and functions available, so we’ve listed 5 of the best outdoor fire bowls to help you make the right choice for your garden or patio. #1. Estrella Large Fire Bowl The biggest and best...Read More

10 Tips for the Perfect Barbecue
Posted on Monday 21st of March 2016Putting on a perfect barbecue is the quintessential adult summer dream, and a joy for both hungry guests and skilled chefs alike! Whilst we’re still some way off before you can ready the charcoal and finally pull of that dust cover, it’s never too early to start improving your barbecue technique or to begin looking for your dream cooker. In this entry of the First Choice Fireplace blog, we’ll lay out our very best tips for a perfect barbecue, and how to ensure your flame-grilled, back...Read More

Guide to Our Gel Fires
Posted on Monday 11th of August 2014With eco-friendly, green concerns coming to the forefront of almost everyone’s consciousness, the manufacturers of heating solutions are back to the drawing board, redesigning our heating systems from the ground up in an effort to help conserve our natural resources. At the moment, the environmentally-friendly options that are most available are bio-ethanol fires and gel fires. We have already looked at bio-ethanol fires in one of our previous posts – see our bio ethanol fire blog post...Read More

More Than Sausages: Things to Cook on a Barbecue
Posted on Monday 21st of July 2014The heatwave is well and truly upon us, and for most of us, that means a chance to get outside and enjoy the outdoor lifestyle. Dust off the garden chairs and the barbecue, summer has hit England; with the mercury forecast to hit 25° degrees over most areas of the country this week. Although a barbecue is an event that most of us relish (!), it can get to be a very meaty and standard affair. With crispy sausages and burgers aplenty not being everyone’s cup of tea. And if the...Read More

Outdoor Living at First Choice Fireplaces
Posted on Tuesday 1st of July 2014With summer now upon us, all of our thoughts turn to getting outside and enjoying the beautiful weather when it allows. The English climate is such a fickle mistress, that it becomes an all-out race for us to get everything ready to savour it as soon as we see the chance of sun! Supermarkets run out of barbecue food within an hour and garages bring briquettes and firewood out from the stockroom, while we frantically ensure that our outside space is hospitable and welcoming for our family...Read More