Barbitec & BSAA Directory
BBQ Cooking, Advice & Maintenance Services
“Ensuring the Australian public get the highest quality BBQ services & information”
Barbitec is your source of Barbecue Reviews, Product Road Tests, BBQ Cooking guides, recipes and books. BBQ Maintenance tips information along with their fully equipped maintenance workshop for repairs and warranty fixes.
Barbitec also provide a full consultancy service for new BBQ area planning and advice (fees may apply)
The BSAA Barbecue Service & Maintenance Directory contains vetted suppliers of key BBQ maintenance services for the whole of Australia.
BBQ Cooking and Skills – Events & Appearances
Events & Appearances
All Things BBQ Workshops. Learn from the master of ‘all things BBQ’, Ross will show you and demonstrate how to get the best out of your barbeque. Delicious food, tips and ingredients, how to cook and deliver the best BBQ food for all occasions.
BBQ Cooking & Recipes
We are passionate about BBQ food. For many years Ross has been cooking as well as maintaining barbecues. He has run cooking workshops, online cooking guides and amassed a wealth of fantastic recipe ideas with his own take on how best to deliver great BBQ food.
British & Australian BBQ Secrets
Ross & Ben ‘Love to BBQ & Love to cook’, so please use our books to their fullest extent, add, change, innovate and excel to make our books ones that you will keep for always …We now have 3 ‘Secrets’ books in the collection with 3 more to come!
Need Local BBQ Experts for Maintenance, Repairs or Installations Near You?
Meet Ross
Ross has owned and run Barbitec for over 26 years in Perth, knows the in’s and out’s of Barbecuing and now dedicates his time to cooking, famously known for the first ‘WA BBQ Chef’ to start BBQ cooking classes back in early 2000.
This website, is all, cooking, BBQ Maintenance, regulations, tips and many ways to make your BBQ experience better, so browse and feel free to send him questions on anything BBQ..
Having spent years in the Gas & Oil business qualifying in the UK and then re-qualifying in Australia, he is a certified licensed Gas fitter specialising in Barbecues.
Passionate about food, wine, cooking and recipes you can follow him daily on his Instagram page for cooking tips and advice. He is the author of four books, his latest being ‘British & Australian BBQ Secrets- V3 ‘Fish & Crustaceans ‘ written jointly with UK Celebrity Chef Ben Bartlett (aka BBQ BEN). At least 3 more coming in the series making 6 books in total.
His next book in the ‘Secrets’ series Volume 4 will be a re-write of his first ‘Drongo’s’ book due early 2026.
He has been on many local Radio stations including 6PR and ABC Perth and continues to be asked for his expertise.He set up the ‘BARBECUE SERVICE ALLIANCE AUSTRALIA DIRECTORY’ for BBQ servicing, repairs, etc. Australia-wide. So if you want a like business to Barbitec but you are in another State go to www.bbqsaa.com.au all businesses listed are 5 star!
Please join him at his ‘All Things BBQ’ Workshops in and around Perth WA, most of them are free or for little cost. Learn to cook, maintain and buy a BBQ. for more information click on ‘EVENTS & APPEARANCES‘
‘Barbitec through its resources helps and supports ‘WA Local and Australian Businesses‘ – So should you! .. Local & Australian products that we use:
3 Drops Olive Oil – Giovanni Coffee – York Olive Oil – Tasman Sea Salt – Caves Road Beef – Humpty Doo Barramundi – GasMate – Barbeques Galore – Capital Meats
We welcome ‘Capital Meats‘ into the ‘fold’ as they will be providing us with their fantastic ‘Black Angus Scotch Fillet Beef for our workshops in 2026/7. Thank you ‘Capital‘ for your support, we really appreciate it!
REMEMBER, we have no allegiance to any manufacturer or any particular brand of BBQ. However, we do get offered BBQ’s for reviews and we use some in our ‘All Things BBQ’ Workshops that we think are fit for the purpose. We are an Independent BBQ resource for reviews & testing… We are of course grateful and would like to thank the companies that supply us with BBQ’s, food and other equipment that are used in our BBQ workshops…
British & Australian BBQ Secrets Volume 4 will be out very soon, this will be Ben and my 4th book based on my first book published some 19 years ago, this has to be our best in the series !!!!!!!!!!!!
The Barbitec BBQ Food Gallery
For real-time updates follow Ross on his Instagram page, ‘he has a new cooking direction almost every day’
Meet Ben Bartlett- aka BBQ Ben
BBQ Ben is one of the UK’s foremost demonstration chefs and was the first winner of Britain’s Best BBQ’er.
Recently appointed a director of ‘Love British Food’. His many talents include being a Board Member of Master Chefs of Great Britain. He has won many BBQ competitions worldwide and now acts as a Judge for many. Ben is currently running BBQ Cooking demonstrations around the UK. He has appeared on the BBC’s Ready Steady Cook and is a regular on British TV and Radio.
Ben has co-written ‘British & Australian BBQ Secrets’ Volume I, 2 ‘Roasts, Rubs & BBQ Blends’ and Volume 3 ‘Fish & Crustaceans – From the Atlantic to the Indian Ocean’ with Ross Yarranton and three more ‘Secrets’ books will be in the pipeline making a series of 6 in total. Volume 3 has just been published and is available on Amazon. Volume 4 (due out early 2026) will be a remake of the ‘Drongo’s book’ Ross wrote some 18 years ago!
Ben & Ross are an amazing BBQ team, even though one is in the UK and the other in Western Australia, they have a perfect balance for BBQ Food and all of their books compliment this perfect alliance…
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Latest from BARBITEC
At Barbitec we constantly monitor the BBQ market place and associated BBQ area items like patio heaters and pizza ovens etc. The Barbitec blog is packed full of interesting articles on new products, BBQ reviews, technical information, maintenance advice and even some cooking and recipe tips. Dive in and have a look around – if you need any specific information just contact us as that’s what we are here for!
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April 17, 2026
‘BBQ Mastery’ into ‘BBQ Secrets’ (Sneak Peak at Cover!) – yes its happening, my first book, Ben & I are redoing it into a ‘Secrets’ Vol 4 for 2026..
‘We are pretty close to completing volume 4 and it should be ready for publication very soon’…New book cover in blog! Ross It will be a new BBQ beginners book and will be available April 2026, I have written most…
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April 14, 2026
Questions? Maybe about servicing, cleaning, cooking or just some advice? We are independent and here to help..ask anything! Call Ross 0415.771172
Have a Question? Email us at [email protected] for a quick and informative answer! Ross knows almost everything about barbecuing, he has been in the industry for over 25 years and knows all the problems including cooking and BBQ servicing. He…
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April 3, 2026
Our Latest Book – Volume 3 – ‘British & Australian BBQ Secrets’ Fish & Crustaceans (from the Atlantic to the Indian ocean) – has come second @ 2026 National Barbecue & Grilling Association (NBBQA) in America!
Volume one, two and three now available on Amazon, 3 more books in a series of 6, coming soon! Our new book is available now on Amazon.. Buy all our books on AMAZON .Ben showcasing our new book and some…
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Latest purchase!! Salt and pepper grinder made in Greece, brass, cant wait to try them at the next dinner party!! #barbitec #saltnpepper #brasssaltnpepper #lovetocook #lovemyfood
A BIG thank you to Lisa & Brad of Capital Meats Malaga WA for sponsoring our `All Things BBQ` workshops for 2026/7 supplying us with their superb Black Angus scotch fillet beef. Anyone in hospitality looking for quality affordable meat should call Lisa for a quote!
08.9249.1467
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Bit of greek kebabs for a light dinner, chicken, red, green, yellow peppers marinated in York lemon infused Olive oil and Creole spice… nice!! #greekkebabs #barbitec #lovetocook #kebabs #easycooking
New batch of seville orange marmalade, just love marmalade!! #lovemarmalade #lovetocook #barbitec #oranges #jam
Food over a lovely view of Denmark! Yes even Chefs present well on their holidays!! Its expected! #denmark #barbitec #bbqben #wasouth #lovewa
One of the best parts of WA! Taking a break away from the rat race! Beautiful… where else could you get such lovely scenery. #greatsouthern #lovewa #tourismwa #barbitec #lovewa
My signature dish.. chicken breast open burgers…recipe available in our ‘Secrets series’ books online @Amazon… new one coming in April! #barbitec #bbqben #lovetocook #amazonbooks #chickenburgers bbqburgers
Chocolate nut clusters with Margaret River Muesli and Maple from Canada Maple syrup… have to hide them!!! #maplefromcanada #maplesyrup #margaretriver #muesli #barbitec
Jumbo tiger prawns en croute, a snack that was almost a meal!!! #skullisland #barbitec #jumboprawns #aussieprawns #lovemyfood
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