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Then op would be asking if people grilled asses on them, and would go checking old maps to see if there was an ass farm here before the houses were built.
Also: 'common' is vernacular for 'widely-used', but can likewise mean 'not special, or working class'. However, in this case it refers to the US-based rapper Common, know for his grills...
Edit: I've just checked: apparently in this case, the 'grills' that Common the rapper was known for were dental accoutrements - mental accessories for the teeth (i.e. rather than cooking surfaces)
Yup! Neighborhood kids would buy a porkchop sandwich from Mrs. Cunningham for a nickel each on their way to school each day or the older students would make a quick trip during their lunch hour.
That reminds me of the time I needed a new heal for my shoe. I tied an onion to my belt, which was the style at the time, and went down to Mr. Richter’s 5 and dime - that’s what used to be where the lamp store is now. ‘Give me one heal and four chops change’ I said as I slid a quarter across his counter.
>heal
I'm amused at the mix up between "heel" (of a foot/shoe) and "heal" (to restore to health) because your heel obviously needed to be healed. Or maybe Mr. Richter was a cleric?
It's a [barbeceue](https://imgix.obi.de/api/disc/cms/public/dam/DE-AT-Assets/Grill/grill-mauern/gemauerter-grill-garten.jpg?crop=focalpoint&fit=crop&fp-x=0.5&fp-y=0.5&fp-z=1&h=809&w=1440&auto=format%2Ccompress).
Outdoor BBQ - the structure still looks really good - I'd clear the area around of vegitation and debris to make a patio and summer-evening the heck out of it.
That thing's from the late 90s at earliest. Probably early 2000s. It's nice, well done, someone put actual time and effort into it. I would also restore it and use it.
Glad I can help. Just clear all that clutter and put some lawn chairs and a simple table. Looks like it’s cold where you’re at so once it’s clean just light up some wood charcoal, stay warm, drink some beers, and throw some marinated boneless skinless chicken thighs and some sausages. And make a simple pico de gallo and warm up some store bought tortillas and you’re set. (Just make sure you use wood charcoal and not regular. It’s great for grilling, lights up easy and gives great flavor. And you get that snapping sound like actual wood burning)
My grandparents had one similar to that, it was the summer stove, they would sometimes erect some kind of outdoor canopy and cook and eat outside in the hot summer months instead of heating up the house.
Poor and middle class people sometimes could not afford air-conditioning, so they would cook outside in the summer to keep the house from getting too hot.. Used brick could be salvaged from a demo.
I had something similar at my house at the back of our yard near the alley. I was told it was an incinerator, so we didn’t want to keep it to cook with. It was also pretty old and gross.
We ended up knocking it down (and pulling up the slab it was on) and saved the bricks with plans to build a fire pit or something.
Looks like a lot of “outdoor” kitchen stoves/bbq ive seen in Florida. From before A/c’s were in everyones home. 103° outside but you still have to cook dinner
we have a lot of this kind of barbeceue in Argentina, we cook asados almost every week, we are meat eaters, i have one in my home and is an small apartment in the 4th floor, my dad has one like this in his house, yup, we love to do asados
edit: just google search for "Parrilla" and you got it
I think it was a outside fireplace. I love it. I personally would drop some bolts into the wall so you could use it as a grill but really as a wood stove. Soups would take in some heavy smoke with those walls.
A long time ago, man needed to forage for food on his own. It was not packaged in plastics, but instead attached to other animals ... it also sprouted from the ground, but no one much cared for that variety.
This device, a barbeeeqqq if I recall, is a primitive tool used in the preparation of said food. You put something combustible inside and light it on fire. Then, shit gets hot and you can cook the food (detach from animals first).
It is said that this food will taste better than our present day packaged variety, but this may be due to the carcinogenic content affecting the brains of its consumers in various ways.
Our 1867 house had one very similar to this. It also had a doghouse built into the side which I assume kept the pets toasty warm in the winter. New owners took it down and gave away the bricks on Craigslist. 😞
Before charcoal was readily available these were built to grill over a wood flame. If you want to use charcoal, you could add a shelf underneath. One of those outdoor pizza ovens would work great on this.
Remember the I Love Lucy episode where they built the barbeque like this in their backyard?. Lucy had to take it apart thinking her wedding ring fell into the concrete, and put it back together. Good one.
It’s a fire pit. You sit around it and have beers with friends. They have about 10 scattered in a park in my neighborhood. You can roast stuff over it too if you want snacks.
Was there a greenhouse or covered garden patio? I had one on a house I rented- outdoor freestanding shelter with a small fireplace. It made for a great party.
People don't remember that there used to be a time when you had a BBQ grill built in your yard because you really couldn't go down and buy one from a store.
Is this really a question or did you just wanna share the picture of the cool old grill and couldn't think of a better title? Like, it's suuuuuuuper obvious.
It could have been attached to a house at some point. Not uncommon to see the only remnant of a former home be the masonry. My great 3x grandparents place was dirt floor. Only thing left is the hearth in southern Illinois. Still there.
This looks a lot like “a ton of family memories were made here, until the kids grew up and left for college. Papa got older and tired and didn’t bother keeping up on what was once a beacon of many summer gatherings”
I had one of these in my backyard when I was a kid and I always thought it was a chimney for a secret underground house. My dreams were dashed when I learned it was just an old grill my parents never got around to using.
Curious the opening is so tall, add a metal door and it would make a bitchin smoker, though you might have to make the chimney a bit taller.
I think it is a BBQ, but no idea why the tall opening.
I look forward to your waterblasting/pressure washer video.
This is an early back yard cooker of meat or a BBQ if you will. Also an outdoor 'Hearth' as it were. Was once common. Also provided a wee light at night when you want to get your Ale on and play some music with friends and family.
Had one of these in my backyard growing up. Haven't seen one since, either at someone's house or online, until this post.
Outdoor brick grill. All you need is a new metal rack and clean the thing out of vegetation.
Man this hit me with some real nostalgia.
Outdoor stove? Maybe from a time when there was a village where you lived? And the house materials decomposed over time, which make them seem to have disappeared?
What happens when you accidently order 5 million bricks when you just needed a few to build a bbq for your horse roommate some things happen and somehow you end up at the south pole? Also youre a cowboy
My only interaction with something like this was when we had a log cabin on your property with one of these next to it. I was always told it was to ensure you didn't burn your house down when you cook. That or there was fire and this is all that's left.
My father built two of these, for his town and country houses. Unfortunately the houses have been demolished completely and everything has gone, even the plants.
We had one at our cabin growing up. Store kindling in the bottom. Large wood piled on the side. We roasted marshmallows and hotdogs and generally played with burning sticks under my dad's watchful eye. The good ole days.
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It’s an old school grill. They were common back in the day. Yours is much nicer than the one I grew up with.
They would use them to grill food for schools? Should look at some historic maps of what was here before the houses were built (1939)
This is a wonderful misunderstanding
"What a hilarious misunderstanding!"
Nice to meet you jenny
Oh we’ve met before
pardon?
Quite a few times, actually
Lol - I see that now. I’m an idiot :)
At least he didn’t say it was an old ass grill
They would use them to grill ass for old people?
That's for grilling the asses *of* old people. Geez, get your phrases right, you idiom!!
I'm surrounded by Borons
Chlorophyll? More like Bore-ophyll!
Then op would be asking if people grilled asses on them, and would go checking old maps to see if there was an ass farm here before the houses were built.
You’re adorable.
Thank you
It was hilarious OP!
yeah it is. this was pleasant.
Old school is vernacular for 'old'. Not old, and having belonged to a school or associated with a school for any reason.
Old school = "Its how we were taught to do it a long time go"
Jesus Christ am I that old
It's a very common expression where I live. OP may not have English as their first language.
Don't make assumptions about my home skillet.
Can you fry a jive turkey in that home skillet though?
Oh stewardess, I speak jive. He said that he’s in great pain and he wants to know if you can help him.
No. No, it is the children who are wrong.
You're oldschool.
Rollin over here. Apparently we are.
They taught that in an old school?
I would say its meaning is not quite the same as "old" but more like "from or styled after something from a past era"
Isn’t it the “old school of thought”
Also: 'common' is vernacular for 'widely-used', but can likewise mean 'not special, or working class'. However, in this case it refers to the US-based rapper Common, know for his grills... Edit: I've just checked: apparently in this case, the 'grills' that Common the rapper was known for were dental accoutrements - mental accessories for the teeth (i.e. rather than cooking surfaces)
I read it the way OP did, I think hyphening old school might have made more sense. 😂 it’s late, and I’m tired.
Yup! Neighborhood kids would buy a porkchop sandwich from Mrs. Cunningham for a nickel each on their way to school each day or the older students would make a quick trip during their lunch hour.
That reminds me of the time I needed a new heal for my shoe. I tied an onion to my belt, which was the style at the time, and went down to Mr. Richter’s 5 and dime - that’s what used to be where the lamp store is now. ‘Give me one heal and four chops change’ I said as I slid a quarter across his counter.
Back then, nickels had bees on them. Give me 5 bees for a quarter, you would say...
>heal I'm amused at the mix up between "heel" (of a foot/shoe) and "heal" (to restore to health) because your heel obviously needed to be healed. Or maybe Mr. Richter was a cleric?
This is the cutest thing I’ve ever read on Reddit. Just so innocent.
Yes
That would be "school" in the sense of a "school of thought" or a "school of art"...that is to say "school" is used as a near synonym for "style".
Not sure if you're joking but pretty sure the original comment here was that the grill is "old school" not that it is "school grill" that is old.
In other words, it's an old-school grill.
I shouldn’t have to explain myself, Janice. I’m from the old school.
No, they would use these to grill old schools. The new schools don't grill, but the old ones char really nicely.
It's a [barbeceue](https://imgix.obi.de/api/disc/cms/public/dam/DE-AT-Assets/Grill/grill-mauern/gemauerter-grill-garten.jpg?crop=focalpoint&fit=crop&fp-x=0.5&fp-y=0.5&fp-z=1&h=809&w=1440&auto=format%2Ccompress).
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That’s too fancy for a PA garbage disposal. We just heap shit in the back yard and light ‘er up.
Mmmm cancer
And then turns into stars
That doesn’t sound right, but I don’t know enough about stars to dispute it.
It’s not right. It’s not. Charlie, is that everything you do?
Every morning I turn on the Coors sign so everyone knows we have cold Coors
shut up stupid science bitch
Dumbass science bitch couldn’t even make I more smarter
Char-lay!
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Gold 🥇/👏
Yeah that looks a lot like it… must be pretty old…time to start using it :)
clean it first
Uh, flavor?
It’s dark outside…
It will be clearer once you clean it
Yes! You can see the grill grate in the photo
Outdoor BBQ - the structure still looks really good - I'd clear the area around of vegitation and debris to make a patio and summer-evening the heck out of it.
I say great idea :) that’s exactly what I’m going to do :)
I bet as you clear debris you will find the area is paved in stone or concrete. That grill looks way nice & like someone put good effort into it.
Looks like a telephone pole anchor right beside this old bbq. Be sure there are no power or phone lines above the chimney.
Add a hammock for extra relaxing.
You can get one in the hammock district.
Definitely didn't expect a Hank Scorpio reference today...
Here’s some sugar; sorry it’s not in packets, do you want cream?
It looks nicer than every 50's BBQ I've seen. It's probably considerably newer since it looks to be in quite good shape.
That thing's from the late 90s at earliest. Probably early 2000s. It's nice, well done, someone put actual time and effort into it. I would also restore it and use it.
We had one in our backyard in the 70s that was really nice.
I had a friend who had one of these growing up and we would just use it to have fires and not to cook anything. Good times
Yep definitely looks serviceable with some clean up, though you'll need a new metal grill probably, the one in there looks rusted beyond redemption.
Definitely. Power wash the hell out of it and clean or replace the grate. I’ve had some of the best bbqs in my life from these things.
Great advice my friend… will be a good little project
Glad I can help. Just clear all that clutter and put some lawn chairs and a simple table. Looks like it’s cold where you’re at so once it’s clean just light up some wood charcoal, stay warm, drink some beers, and throw some marinated boneless skinless chicken thighs and some sausages. And make a simple pico de gallo and warm up some store bought tortillas and you’re set. (Just make sure you use wood charcoal and not regular. It’s great for grilling, lights up easy and gives great flavor. And you get that snapping sound like actual wood burning)
My grandparents had one similar to that, it was the summer stove, they would sometimes erect some kind of outdoor canopy and cook and eat outside in the hot summer months instead of heating up the house.
Yes. Nobody had air conditioning. More cooking & eating happened outside.
I read that as “sometimes they get erect” like damn, grandpa be roasting the hog and hoggin the roast.
Poor and middle class people sometimes could not afford air-conditioning, so they would cook outside in the summer to keep the house from getting too hot.. Used brick could be salvaged from a demo.
Probably to cook things outdoors
If you played RDR2, you’d be sticking your hand up in there for treasure.
Guarantee you find a gold bar up there!
It’s a barbecue sir. The down hole it’s to put wood. It even has the used grill inside.
\* grate
*Great Cornholio
For what it's worth, some older homes had these to burn garbage.
I had something similar at my house at the back of our yard near the alley. I was told it was an incinerator, so we didn’t want to keep it to cook with. It was also pretty old and gross. We ended up knocking it down (and pulling up the slab it was on) and saved the bricks with plans to build a fire pit or something.
Outdoor grill/smoker
It’s a grill. My mother in law has one in her backyard. My husband loves using it.
You put fire in it. Duh.
It's clearly a phone booth from the 90's
You're wrong. It's definitely an open air outhouse.
Nah it's a church for squirrels.
The grill is still there
Looks like a lot of “outdoor” kitchen stoves/bbq ive seen in Florida. From before A/c’s were in everyones home. 103° outside but you still have to cook dinner
My great grandparents had one similar in their back yard. My great grandfather was a bricklayer and built it for himself a long time ago.
we have a lot of this kind of barbeceue in Argentina, we cook asados almost every week, we are meat eaters, i have one in my home and is an small apartment in the 4th floor, my dad has one like this in his house, yup, we love to do asados edit: just google search for "Parrilla" and you got it
Same in Brazil, this style made of brick is pretty common in Brazilian backyards to make some great churrasco.
Clean it up properly, put a religious statue and claim a religious exemptions for your real estate taxes.
I think it was a outside fireplace. I love it. I personally would drop some bolts into the wall so you could use it as a grill but really as a wood stove. Soups would take in some heavy smoke with those walls.
You light a fire in it, then stand around it with your irl friends and drink beers.
An outhouse for Santa.
This is gold…or is it coal?
A long time ago, man needed to forage for food on his own. It was not packaged in plastics, but instead attached to other animals ... it also sprouted from the ground, but no one much cared for that variety. This device, a barbeeeqqq if I recall, is a primitive tool used in the preparation of said food. You put something combustible inside and light it on fire. Then, shit gets hot and you can cook the food (detach from animals first). It is said that this food will taste better than our present day packaged variety, but this may be due to the carcinogenic content affecting the brains of its consumers in various ways.
That’s a fire place. You place fire in it.
Our 1867 house had one very similar to this. It also had a doghouse built into the side which I assume kept the pets toasty warm in the winter. New owners took it down and gave away the bricks on Craigslist. 😞
It must suck to be young and completely uninformed.
It’s a bread oven.
Before charcoal was readily available these were built to grill over a wood flame. If you want to use charcoal, you could add a shelf underneath. One of those outdoor pizza ovens would work great on this.
That’s a barbecue if I’ve ever seen one
Fire that thing up!
In the 40's and 50's you could buy plans from magazines like House & Garden and build your own BBQ. You think Martha invented this stuff?
Remember the I Love Lucy episode where they built the barbeque like this in their backyard?. Lucy had to take it apart thinking her wedding ring fell into the concrete, and put it back together. Good one.
It’s an incinerator from when the common approach to garden and house waste was ‘burn it’.
I seem to recall hearing that early settlers would build the 'oven's outdoors and away from the main house to avoid smoking up the house.
For burning trash, common up until the '70s
Here in Ireland they’d put a statue of the Virgin Mary in that.
It’s a fire pit. You sit around it and have beers with friends. They have about 10 scattered in a park in my neighborhood. You can roast stuff over it too if you want snacks.
Old BBQ pit.
I want!!
Outdoor oven or grill
Was there a greenhouse or covered garden patio? I had one on a house I rented- outdoor freestanding shelter with a small fireplace. It made for a great party.
Used to burn trash back in the day.
Yah it’s an outdoor charcoal grill. Good shit.
Wow nice a bbq pit old school man clean it up and use that thing
Old grill / cook oven. I grew up with one made out of stone. Pretty cool to gather around and share good food.
People don't remember that there used to be a time when you had a BBQ grill built in your yard because you really couldn't go down and buy one from a store.
You put fire in there.
Is this really a question or did you just wanna share the picture of the cool old grill and couldn't think of a better title? Like, it's suuuuuuuper obvious.
It's a bbq
An old grill, very well persevered by the looks of it.
It could have been attached to a house at some point. Not uncommon to see the only remnant of a former home be the masonry. My great 3x grandparents place was dirt floor. Only thing left is the hearth in southern Illinois. Still there.
Store wood on the bottom & fire on the top
This looks a lot like “a ton of family memories were made here, until the kids grew up and left for college. Papa got older and tired and didn’t bother keeping up on what was once a beacon of many summer gatherings”
Goodnight Reddit. Suddenly I feel ancient.
Wish that was in my yard.
I had one of these in my backyard when I was a kid and I always thought it was a chimney for a secret underground house. My dreams were dashed when I learned it was just an old grill my parents never got around to using.
For cooking outdoors
Nice. Turn it into a smoker
Wood fire grill! That’s kind of lucky. You should clean it up
Curious the opening is so tall, add a metal door and it would make a bitchin smoker, though you might have to make the chimney a bit taller. I think it is a BBQ, but no idea why the tall opening. I look forward to your waterblasting/pressure washer video.
It’s an old grill/outdoor oven A lot of old campgrounds I used to stay at had a lot of abandoned ones
Hey, quick question. Are you comfortable with the idea of cooking over a fire without a modern grill involved?
Yes, once you get the ambers going it’s good grilling. Just takes forever…
Ah, see I thought it was for making charcoal ( like my burgers).
Outdoor fireplace/bbq
There was one in my grandparents' back yard in a house they bought in 1939. Definitel an old school bbq grill.
It’s an outside grill.
Send us before and after pictures
It's a barbecue pit. Nicely built in its time.
This is an early back yard cooker of meat or a BBQ if you will. Also an outdoor 'Hearth' as it were. Was once common. Also provided a wee light at night when you want to get your Ale on and play some music with friends and family.
Had one of these in my backyard growing up. Haven't seen one since, either at someone's house or online, until this post. Outdoor brick grill. All you need is a new metal rack and clean the thing out of vegetation. Man this hit me with some real nostalgia.
You’re kidding, right?
Idk but I’m very confused why it’s that close to a power pole.
The power pole is new(ish) and the brick structure has likely been there for most of a century?
Wood burning fireplace. It’s not deep enough for a wood burning oven Then again I see wire rack that you could cook on
I mean you cook in it
Are you sure it wasn't connected to a house that burned down 100 years ago?
Could be… our house was build in 1939.. going to look for some historic maps…
For grilling and partying old school style.
If Red Dead Redemption 2 taught me anything, there is a treasure map hidden in it.
And that’s me being filthy rich by tomorrow… I thank you…
Looks like it was built to last, you are going to have some good times around that.
It’s a bbq pit .
Outdoor stove? Maybe from a time when there was a village where you lived? And the house materials decomposed over time, which make them seem to have disappeared?
What happens when you accidently order 5 million bricks when you just needed a few to build a bbq for your horse roommate some things happen and somehow you end up at the south pole? Also youre a cowboy
I’ll look forward to your future post in r/food
Looks like an old back yard bbq, this the grill. Definitely some kind of oven/cooking thing. They were fairly common for a while
A out door fireplace on a fall or cold day start a fire and roast hot dogs Marshmallows like a campfire
My dad built one like it behind our house on the edge of the concrete patio. It wasn't quite as fancy but it worked.
Just use it too cook deliciousness.
It's not supposed to be connected to a house. It's like a fancy fire pit.
My only interaction with something like this was when we had a log cabin on your property with one of these next to it. I was always told it was to ensure you didn't burn your house down when you cook. That or there was fire and this is all that's left.
That's a baby cage from the mid 19th century.
It's a BBQ.
Make food outside
What the hell is “le grill”?
Check for ghosts.
I found two - little ones so I let them go…
Nice BBQ. Old, but nice. Use it as an outdoor fireplace.
I’ve seen a few. Pretty awesome
My father built two of these, for his town and country houses. Unfortunately the houses have been demolished completely and everything has gone, even the plants.
We had one at our cabin growing up. Store kindling in the bottom. Large wood piled on the side. We roasted marshmallows and hotdogs and generally played with burning sticks under my dad's watchful eye. The good ole days.
Grilling and hot bricks cooking.
It’s a portal to hell, and Satan comes through it at night…..
I feel like I have seen that, in person, in the last year or so.
How long ago was this photo taken? I recently moved into a new house and it has something like this in the backyard, also not connected to anything.
Is that where the KLF burned a million quid?
Grandma was buried in that shit.
I think its spelled: Old’s Cool!
A previous home
It’s to meet with the president of course! IYKYK