Author: Dan van Straaten

Born and raised around the fire in South Africa, Dan is the resident Braaimaster at Let’s Braai UK. With decades of hands-on experience in live-fire cooking, he specializes in mastering temperature control, ember management, and meat-pairing using authentic African hardwoods. When he isn’t sourcing the finest dense hardwoods for the UK market, you can find him tending to a slow-roasting potjie or perfectly searing a steak over a bed of glowing Kameeldoring coals.