My hubby has just bought us a chimenea, has anyone got one? this one has a grill you can cook on which pulls out, just wondered if anyone has successfully cooked anything on one and if so, what? I am excited gonna burn some wood in it tonight! twisted fire starter song going round in my head now lol

Yes, I've got one. We tried cooking in it - not very successfully because of having to bend down so far (highly amusing watching DH wobbling around trying to cook stuff on it when he had a few glasses of wine inside him ) - so now we use it more as an outside heater/ornament and have gone back to cooking on a normal BBQ.

Do you have to wait till fire dies right down before cooking? ours is set up now and grill seems very close to the bottom?

We only used once for cooking but we waited until we got glowing embers before cooking - much like cooking on a BBQ - only because we didn't want the food to get charred on the outside before it cooked properly.

Try throwing some dried herbs on the embers - it gives the food lovely flavours.

cool i will try that - thanks!