Barbecue vs. Tandoor

Barbecuenoun

A fireplace or pit for grilling food, typically used outdoors and traditionally employing hot charcoal as the heating medium.

Barbecuenoun

A meal or event highlighted by food cooked in such an apparatus.

Barbecuenoun

Meat, especially pork or beef, which has been cooked in such an apparatus (i.e. smoked over indirect heat from high-smoke fuels) and then chopped up or shredded.

Barbecuenoun

(dated) A hog, ox, or other large animal roasted or broiled whole for a feast.

Barbecuenoun

A floor on which coffee beans are sun-dried.

Barbecuenoun

(obsolete) A framework of sticks.

Barbecueverb

To cook food on a barbecue; to smoke it over indirect heat from high-smoke fuels.

Barbecueverb

To grill.

Barbecuenoun

a framework of metal or brick, usually with a grill on top, in which a fire is lighted and on which food is cooked, usually outdoors; - also called a barbecue grill.

Barbecuenoun

A social entertainment, where people assemble, usually in the open air, at which a meal is prepared on a barbecue grill.

Barbecuenoun

A floor, on which coffee beans are sun-dried.

Barbecuenoun

A hog, ox, or other large animal roasted or broiled whole for a feast.

Barbecueverb

To dry or cure by exposure on a frame or gridiron.

Barbecueverb

To roast or broil whole, as an ox or hog.

Barbecuenoun

meat that has been barbecued or grilled in a highly seasoned sauce

Barbecuenoun

a cookout in which food is cooked over an open fire; especially a whole animal carcass roasted on a spit

Barbecuenoun

a rack to hold meat for cooking over hot charcoal usually out of doors

Barbecueverb

cook outdoors on a barbecue grill;

Barbecuenoun

a meal or gathering at which meat, fish, or other food is cooked out of doors on a rack over an open fire or on a special appliance

Barbecuenoun

a rack or appliance used for the preparation of food at a barbecue

Barbecuenoun

food cooked on a barbecue

Barbecueverb

cook (food) on a barbecue

Barbecue

Barbecue or barbeque (informally BBQ in the UK and US, barbie in Australia and braai in South Africa) is a term used with significant regional and national variations to describe various cooking methods which use live fire and smoke to cook the food. The term is also generally applied to the devices associated with those methods, the broader cuisines that these methods produce, and the meals or gatherings at which this style of food is cooked and served.

Tandoornoun

A cylindrical clay oven used, in the cuisine of the Caucasus, Middle East, and Indian subcontinent, to make flat bread, or to cook meat.

Tandoornoun

a clay oven used in northern India and Pakistan

Tandoor

A tandoor ( or ) also known as tannour is predominantly a cylindrical clay or metal oven used in cooking and baking. The tandoor is used for cooking in Southern, Central, and Western Asia, as well as in the South Caucasus.The heat for a tandoor was traditionally generated by a charcoal or wood fire, burning within the tandoor itself, thus exposing the food to live fire, radiant heat cooking, and hot-air, convection cooking, and smoking in the fat and food juices that drip on to the charcoal.