"Chef Juke" > wrote in message
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> Hey All,
>
> Your cheerful Pacific Northwest Lurker here with a query for the
> group.
>
> So, I hosted a benefit Barbecue at my house a few weeks back and ran
> into a situation which I ran into a few times at my old house, but
> this was the first time I have come across it in our (relatively) new
> digs.
>
> When I do a long cook of a lot of queue (in this case, 4 pork butts, 2
> briskets and a chicken or two), it seems that besides the neighbors,
> the smoke is attracting a major amount of flies. I mean a LOT of
> flies. Kinda like an update on Hitchcock's "The Birds" only smaller.



hahaha I know where you're coming from buddie, Flies are a real nuisance at
a BBQ but unfortunately not a lot can be done about them.
Over here in Australia, the outback bushfly can seem to be bigger than birds
sometimes and theres millions of the little *******s and apart from hog
tie-ing the food to the grill so they won't take off with it (slight
exageration) you just have to eat faster than they can. LOL
Citeranella is good for mozquitos but not for flies. In the summer i have a
cylinder thing i bought in a hardware shop which has a sweet sticky powder
that you just add water to and put the top back on, the flies are attracted
to this sweet smell and crawl into the lid and can't get out(flies arn't
that smart really) they fly around in this plastic container till they get
tired and then fall into this liquid that renders them useless and they
drown.
This stuff does smell a bit and watching the buggers drown isn't real
pleasant but it seems it's a better smell for them than the bbq and they
tend to leave you alone. Not entirely but much better than before.
Flies won't normally touch the food when it's on a grill due to the heat but
once its off the grill, it's every fly...eerrr man for himself so we just
leave it on the grill and take what we need and eat straight away.This
applies mainly to sausages on the grill which we eat in abundance down here.

Cheers

DJ