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replacing briquettes for propane grill Matt 04-23-2006
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Posted by m Ransley on April 23, 2006, 4:29 pm
Those lava briquets you have can be boiled in water to remove the grease
embedded in them


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Posted by hallerb@aol.com on April 23, 2006, 5:05 pm
I put mine in my self sleaning oven, they came out looking brand new.


Posted by on April 23, 2006, 8:33 pm

Joseph Meehan wrote:
> Matt wrote:
> >I am replacing the briquettes in my outdoor propane grill. The old
> > ones looked like they were volcanic rock.
> >
> > We bought some replacement briquettes that don't look so good. They
> > look like poured or molded concrete. They are not very uniform. The
> > edges are crumbly and some of them are broken into pieces. They came
> > 60 in a bag for $7.
> >
> > What would some more expensive ones be like?
> > Would they break easily and fall apart?
> > Would they last longer or have other advantages over these cheap ones
> > we bought?
> > How much should I be paying for some good ones?
>
> My last grill (the one someone stole) used metal grids. I liked them
> best. I don't grill for looks, but for taste, so who cares what they look
> like. As long as they do the job (provide a hot surface to burn the fat and
> create that barbecue flavor.)?

REAL BBQ is cooked over charcoal or wood.
>


Posted by Grumman-581 on April 23, 2006, 9:26 pm
> REAL BBQ is cooked over charcoal or wood.

True, but it is also Beef Brisket and it is not possible to get REAL BBQ
outside of Texas...

Many of us just like the convenience of using gas to grill... Yeah, it's not
anywhere close to grilling over mesquite, but it's quick... If I had to do
REAL BBQ, I'm pretty sure that I wouldn't do it quite as often...

On the other hand, some people use propane / natural gas to fire the wood up
initially... That's a perfectly acceptable use of gas within the definition
of REAL BBQ...



Posted by Grumman-581 on April 23, 2006, 6:51 pm
> How much should I be paying for some good ones?

When designing my grill for my outdoor kitchen / BBQ area, I bought a bag of
landscaping lava rocks... These are quite a bit cheaper than the small bags
that are sold just for the grills... Some of them are smaller than the ones
that are sold explicitly for grills, but I just adjusted the size of the
support grid so that they wouldn't fall through... I have about a 3" layer
of these rocks in my grill with about an inch or so between the burner holes
and the bottom of the lava rock support gridwork... It takes a bit longer to
heat up, but I'm using natural gas, so it's cheaper anyway... I can get the
rocks cherry red and turn down or off the gas and still cook... For the
grill surface, I use 1/2" square solid bar stock from a metal / welding
supply shop like is used in the better quality metal fencing... Most of the
metal fencing that you see these days is the square tube type, but the solid
stuff is about the same price as the 16-gauge stuff when you're buying 20 ft
sections of it... Because it's so thick, it lasts a *long* time even if it
was just left outside in the rain...



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