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Modem Butterfly Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-06-05 07:39 AM
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Poll question: Warning: This is serious FLAME BAIT. Do NOT post! Major FLAMMAGE!
So it's getting warmer, and soon, summer will be here. What is your favorite fuel for outdoor cooking?
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meegbear Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-06-05 07:41 AM
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1. Love the hardwood (heh heh-heh) ...
but usually use a gas grill.

My dick ex-landlord threw away my Webah kettle grill while I was moving, so it's only gas for now.
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Modem Butterfly Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-06-05 07:42 AM
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2. You know, that's grounds for justifiable homicide in the south...
We take our outdoor cooking fires seriously down here.
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meegbear Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-06-05 07:53 AM
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10. I was pissed ...
Edited on Wed Apr-06-05 07:54 AM by meegbear
but karma got him back. The final weekend I was there, he pulled his minivan out of the driveway so I could get my stuff out. For some reason, there were metermaids working that day and he never registered his minivan with the city for a parking permit.

He got ticketed for parking in front of his own place!
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ET Awful Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-06-05 07:43 AM
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3. Why clean-burning propane and propane accessories I tell you what
Edited on Wed Apr-06-05 07:44 AM by ET Awful


Honestly though? I mix of charcoal briquettes and real hickory or mesquite wood for flavor.
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Modem Butterfly Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-06-05 07:47 AM
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5. One of our neighbors uses some kind of gourmet charcoal
Something "gourmet" and sustainable that he buys at Whole Foods and that costs $25 a bag. He uses it to cook meat he buys down at the Save-Rite insanely cheap because it's going off. The best fuel in the world can't make a green strip steak taste good.
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ET Awful Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-06-05 07:49 AM
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6. Mmmmm green strip steak . . .
Edited on Wed Apr-06-05 07:49 AM by ET Awful
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ScreamingMeemie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-06-05 07:45 AM
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4. Although I love cooking over charcoal, I have given in to the ease of
gas grilling. I can still cook out and get my son to soccer! :hi:

FWIW, This Wisconsin girl cooks out all year round. I cannot go the entire winter without brats from the grill. :hi: Actually, I can because I hate brats...so I guess I can't go without bbq'd chicken or ribs. ;)
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DS1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-06-05 07:49 AM
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7. Microwave
It's the only way to be sure
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Beer Snob-50 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-06-05 07:51 AM
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8. cook with propane at home
but love cooking over wood with a cold beer in my hand! Or just drink a cold beer and forget the food totally.
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Modem Butterfly Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-06-05 07:52 AM
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9. I think BBQ was invented to give men something to bond over
Nothing like standing outside in the hot sun, watching some meat cook, enjoying a beer with your buddies.
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Beer Snob-50 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-06-05 07:56 AM
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11. That is so true!
but I believe it is "enjoying BEERS with your buddies". I also have some veggie friends who would prefer not to see meat cook but love to watch veggies cook (not bad for anyone who hasn't tried it)
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Ellen Forradalom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-06-05 08:01 AM
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12. The neighbor's cats
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tsakshaug Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-06-05 08:06 AM
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13. Charcoal
with wood. have a gas grill, the gas ran out a year or two ago.
have a big fancy webber kettle, a mid sized webber (side of the road find) and two little webbers(yard sale $1) , a smoker- I need another smoker, and a webber knock off found on the side of the road.
buy charcoal in 100 lb lots.
no lighter fluid, use the chiminy starters.
Want some smoked turkey?
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Modem Butterfly Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-06-05 08:12 AM
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15. Wow, you're serious about the meat, aren't you?
:)
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tsakshaug Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-06-05 08:51 AM
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20. and veggies
have some grill woks- great for grilling veggies
add some seafood with that too!
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kick-ass-bob Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-06-05 08:10 AM
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14. Propane....
YUCK!!! (only chicken is good over propane)

Give me charcoal any day... or wood.
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tjwmason Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-06-05 08:22 AM
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16. I don't particularly like B.B.Q.
:hide:

We have kitchens which are marvellously equiped to produce food of the highest quality; and then we ignore those and stick food over a pile of burning wood. It's not even a 'back to nature' thing given the use of gas or those ghastly charcoal briquettes.

Eating outside in summer is wonderful, but for goodness sake why B.B.Q.? -Ducks and runs away very quickly-
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El Fuego Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-06-05 08:28 AM
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17. The gas grill is just so much easier
The ignitor on mine stopped working, so now I turn up the gas, throw in a match, stand back and watch it go WOOOOSHHH! It's great pyromanical fun.
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THUNDER HANDS Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-06-05 08:30 AM
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18. matches
and about 15 hours. You weren't that hungry, right?
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On the Road Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-06-05 08:42 AM
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19. Nobody Uses Natural Charcoal?
I do whenever I can find it. Better than those sawdust-and-glue briquettes.
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tsakshaug Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-06-05 08:53 AM
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21. as much as possible
faster and hotter than sawdust
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wideopen Donating Member (563 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-06-05 08:57 AM
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23. I was thinking the same thing
I would never use a briquette. Or lighter fluid. I usually cook over gas w/a chunk of cherry or hickory under the grate- speed and accuracy of gas with the flavor of wood. Also do lots of smoking w/ cherry.
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Lady Freedom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-06-05 08:54 AM
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22. I like a mix of..
Charcoal briquettes (Kingsford, Char-King, etc)and Mesquite &/or peach wood.
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