BBQ Grills and Smokers and The Art of Living the Dream

Gooday mates,

BBQ grills and smokers come in many shapes, sizes and burning formulas. From Rectangular, round, square, cylindrical, oval and platinum or gold grills

"Let me see ya grill, let you see my, what? Ya, ya grill ya, ya, ya grill Rob da jewelry store and tell 'em make me a grill" haha

<--- Nelly








Alright, lost my train of thought....back on it. The size of your grill is essentially personal preference, unless you're trying to cook enough meat to feed all of Ethopia....and Somalia....and Kenya....for Christs sake, all of Africa. Thank some oil tycoon for Texas for paying someone to make a barbecue pit big enough to accommodate to an entire continent...

This grill is obviously overkill, but generally if a person is grilling for five to ten people, a circular Weber grill will do just fine.

So with any hobby, you're out there enjoying yourself with a 30 pack of stones (Keystone Light) while your meat is getting cooked to perfection. Again, personal preference plays a huge role in this so....are you a charcoal or wood kinda guy/gal or do you prefer the convenience of propane? It's your BBQ, so you pick. As for me, I personally enjoy charcoal. The process of setting up charcoal is like jumping out of a plane....psyche...I just really enjoy setting up my grill that way....weird, right? The reason I'd rather use charcoal or wood is because of the flavor it adds to whatever is being cooked. So obviously there's pros and cons to using charcoal or propane, but since this is my blog, there's no Cons to Charcoal or Wood :P Yeah, I said it....and you better like it!

Ladies and Gentlemen, The Man...The Legend. That guy....livin' the dream..

Hope you enjoyed reading this as much as I've enjoyed making it. o_0 If anyone wants to have a blog rap battle using only Nelly lyrics on my comments, that's cool. If you want to talk about barbecue, that'd be even cooler and lets do it. I mean, talk about bbq, not...

-Smokethatbbq

Grilling Tools - Bro Downs and House Fires

Grilling Tools - Bro Downs and House Fires

It was a Sunday afternoon, Sunday Funday, Tank Topalooza or whatever you want to call it. For the sake of naming this 1 Sunday out of the 52 Sundays a year, I'll call it Sunday #32. On this day, my brother, our friends and I were having a day party at our house; grilling out, playing beer pong, flip cup, beersbee and other totally legal things >:] Anyways, the group of eight or ten of us begin to get hungry and fortunately for us, there is a ton of meat marinating in the fridge from chicken, sausage, steaks, pork chops, you name it. We're gon' grub hard during and after our bro down. Of all the people to be on grill duty, they put myself at the helm....good job guys...We're using the big grill instead of the Weber (God I love that Weber). I layer the charcoal and add some mesquite wood for some added flavor - I looked like a GD Subway sandwich artist except with a BBQ grill and charcoal/mesquite. Without anyone else seeing (which is why I call myself a jackass) is to add two bottles of lighter fluid to soak the charcoal and mesquite....good job. After 20-25 minutes of the soaking process, I finally finish off the last bottle of lighter fluid and throw a match on the grill. Since it wasn't gasoline, I wasn't expecting any type of crazy combustion, but I was at the very least expecting the charcoal to light. I attempted to light the grill two more times. It was frustrating to me because at that point I was like "damn, it's to soaked...I just wasted so much lighter fluid and charcoal/mesquite". I walked inside like a puppy in trouble and was going to tell my brother that someone needed to go get more lighter fluid and charcoal. His girlfriend at the time, Mexhee as we liked to call her saw me and was like, "what's wrong". Before I could say anything, her eyes went from drunk to pooping out of her face. I didn't know what had happened, but I noticed she was looking past me. I turn around and the grill that I had walked away from 15 seconds earlier is now engulfing the house in flames. The house ended up looking like this..

 

Nah, I'm just kidding haha but for real, the grill was completely on fire with the lid down and the house was charred. Back to the story...I ran outside. While running outside I grabbed a coat (thinking quick on my feet during a stressful moment) and that was how I moved the grill without burning my hands. Once the grill was moved, we sprayed the house down with a water hose and all drunkenly laughed to the point of crying. Don't worry, the portion of the house that had turned a bit black from the fire was painted over. So the fire is under control and away from the house....the next issue was that the fire was so hot, it actually began to remove the black paint from the grill. Learned a couple of lessons that day. So now we're at the point where the fire has died down. We throw the steaks and other meats on the grill, but because it was so hot, they were off the grill not long after. The grill must have been 700 degrees! With careful observation over the meats, everything finally came off the grill and we devoured some serious amounts of protein.

Grilling tools bro downs and house fires seems to make for quite the exciting Sunday afternoon. If anyone has ever had a similar situation to this, tell us about it in the comments area. 

- Smokethatbbq.com

BBQ Tool Set Tips

The key is not to purchase more bbq tool set grill than you require. To do this right, you'll have to decide before you shop how your new grill will be utilized. How frequently will you cook on it and for what number of individuals? Will you need to sear and saute' or cook on a rotisserie? In the event that you need to have the capacity to do an assortment of errands, you'll need gear that can deal with them. On the off chance that you simply need to flame broil canines and burgers, there is no compelling reason to spend gobs of cash for a unit that could profound sear Big Bird.

Gas grills might be filled either by fluid propane (LP) or characteristic gas. Pick characteristic gas on the off chance that you have an adjacent regular gas supply hookup since it will dispense with the need to purchase or refill LP tanks--and you'll never come up short on fuel amidst a grill party. In the event that regular gas isn't promptly accessible and you need to keep the attach straightforward, pick fluid propane.

On the off chance that you infrequently stimulate extensive gatherings, you're in an ideal situation selecting a grill with a medium-to-substantial barbecuing area--490 square crawls is sufficient space to cook from around 25 to 30 burgers on the double. A littler barbecue, say 350 square creeps, will handle cooking around 15 burgers at one time--more than enough for most family social events.

Grills that cost from $500 to $1500 frequently have a rotisserie burner and for the most part have from 450 square crawls to 850 square creeps of aggregate cooking surface. Those evaluated under $500 will probably offer from 350 to 600 square creeps.

Additionally remember that, in the event that you need a grill that can deal with huge group, you'll require a lot of readiness range and you might need a unit that incorporates side warmers and/or warming racks to keep a few dishes toasty while you're barbecuing others.

Most grills have from one to four traditional burners that, contingent on the model, are appraised together at from 25,000 to 60,000 BTUs. As a standard of measure, a 44,000-BTU unit is viewed as "hot." A 60,000-BTU model is bursting. Side burners are regularly from 10,000 to 12,000 BTUs. Burners are commonly solid metal, steel or stainless steel. Stainless steel is viewed as first class. Most barbecues accompany electronic igniters.

On the off chance that it would seem that the one you're considering will require a designing degree, you might need to settle on another model or get some information about purchasing an as of now collected floor model. Who knows, you may even get the floor model for a rebate, especially in the event that it's somewhat shopworn.

In the event that you think you might need to sear nourishment's on a rotisserie, make certain the grill you're considering accompanies or will oblige a rotisserie set. The hood ought to have a temperature gage that is anything but difficult to peruse. Fold-up tables are superb for counter space when you require it. Likewise consider a stainless-steel meat thermometer and topping/utensil.

- SmokeThatBBQ.com