If you were Registered and logged in, you could reply and use other advanced thread options
|
Posted by hallerb@aol.com on April 23, 2006, 9:29 pm
I like the searing high heat of gas or charcoal. Gas is just so much
more convenient. Even below freezing in the snow we grill food.
With charcoal it just takes too long, and winter forget it
|
 
| |
Posted by Mark and Gloria Hagwood on April 23, 2006, 10:43 pm
hallerb@aol.com wrote:
> I like the searing high heat of gas or charcoal. Gas is just so much
> more convenient. Even below freezing in the snow we grill food.
>
> With charcoal it just takes too long, and winter forget it
>
I completely agree,
Our home is in the desert. We cook outside virtually every
evening. Why in the world would we want to use the stove or
oven in the house, while cranking up the A/C to keep it cool
inside? On rainy nights, I have a large Market Umbrella
that I unfurl if needed, or use a golf umbrella if just
checkin' the food. To me, the outdoor gas grill is a
cooking appliance as useful as a range or oven. Ours cost
about $1100 at Sam's Club, is all stainless with a double
walled hood, drawers and a side burner. It's made in China,
as are most of the similar grills at Sears and even the
expensive BBQ stores. By any standards, it is very well
built. The grates are SS bars for good seering.
Mine also has a separate burner beneath a shallow tray that
can be filled with charcoal or wood chips to "smoke" what
I'm cooking. Being a barbecue fanatic (barbecue is a noun
where I come from), I know and understand how to cook butts
over COALS for hours at a time, and have cranked out some
pretty decent 'que on occasion. This isn't the same thing.
We use ours to grill chicken, chops, steaks, salmon,
shrimp, scallops and about any other kind of meat. We roast
ears of corn on it, use the spit for rib roasts, pork or
beef tenderloin. By grilling, you don't get all the fat and
the mess is minimal.
I have a friend who has a gas grill that cost $4000 and is
inset into a $3000 ceramic tile island. Mine just sits on
casters and I recently wheeled it out to paint the patio
beneath it. We have often compared grills when visiting and
he agrees that his $4000 grill from a barbecue store offers
less than my $1100 grill from Sam's Club.
Mark
|
Page 3 of 3 << first < 1 2 3
| Similar Threads | Posted | | My propane gas grill won't get hot, any way to fix it? | September 25, 2005, 8:23 pm |
| converting propane to NG for grill | June 9, 2006, 12:47 pm |
| Propane Grill Not Cooking | December 4, 2008, 6:11 pm |
| How do I convert Gas Grill to run off house propane tank??? | June 22, 2006, 9:43 am |
| Propane Grill Infrared Burner Question | October 13, 2007, 11:00 am |
| permanent connection of propane grill to city gas? | May 4, 2008, 3:15 pm |
| Elec-Tech Grill Best Grill? | September 17, 2007, 6:11 pm |
| Gas grill | April 25, 2007, 12:36 am |
| Gas grill | April 25, 2007, 12:36 am |
| low heat BBQ grill | February 25, 2006, 10:22 pm |
|
|
Yahoo! 
Google 
Windows Live 
del.icio.us 
digg 
Netscape 
XML Sitemap