Fire Fuel for the Braai

Different braais do different things. The best braai in the world is the one you have with you when you want to cook something. Practically anything in which you can start and sustain a fire can be used to cook food on. There are the ever-popular kettle braais, ones made from 44-gallon drums, old gas cylinders, and so on. South Africans’ ingenuity in fashioning something to make a fire in is limitless. It is much easier – and more practical here – to distinguish between the two main methods we use to cook over fire: