Charcoal or gas

[gizmo1979]

Just got a gas grill It's great for ease of use,but I think I'm going back to my old weber charcoal grill.I can't get the hang of cooking on the gas grill.

[Swede]

1. Gas is quick,but charcoal tastes better.

Gas still is better the stove top.

[jandrok]

2. Charcoal, all the way.

Much better, IMO. Gas will cook very evenly once you get the hang of it, but nothing imparts flavors into the meats like charcoal.

[sniffa]

3. yup, i'LL teLL ya what

[scarlet_owl]

4. Charcoal.

[NaturalHigh]

5. Gas is more convenient...

once you learn how to use it, but charcoal always tastes better. Just my opinion.

[greblc]

6. I have gas....

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

7. Gas is great for fire, but to grill... charcoal

is the only way.

[blue sky at night]

8. I am a ardent user of Charcoal...

Its from my old Natural Foods Ideology. I start the charcoal with newspaper, never lighter fluid. It cooks slower and the flavor is better, but of course most Americans are into the "Bigger is Better, and Faster is BEST mindset". Slow down and cook on Charcoal.

[DeposeTheBoyKing]

9. Gas

"Taste the meat, not the heat! Taste the meat, not the heat!"

[achtung_circus]

10. For the best of all possible worlds,

get a gas barbeque, piped into the house's gas supply for convenience, rather than using propane bottles.

Then get flavoured wood chips, which you spread on the lava rock, and imparts that charcoal flavour to the meat. Meat, Fire, Good.

[gizmo1979]

11. you can't do that with propane?

It sounds like it might work.

[AlCzervik]

12. we have gas but i love the taste of food cooked over charcoal better

gas is fine but the food never really tastes the same or as good.

[tjwmason]

13. Wood

Get some nice big branches and a very large grill. They burn at the rear, then as they turn to embers pull those through to cook the food.

Anything else is 'girly-man'.

[Midlodemocrat]

14. We have gas, but we used to have a Weber charcoal

and I could never get the hand of putting in the right amount of charcoal to cook the food thoroughly...chicken or pork of course.

At least with the gas, we won't get salmonella or that trich thing.

[MN ChimpH8R]

15. Charcoal

Gas is fine for convenience, but for flavor, nothing beats coals.

[Mr. McD]

16. I mix charcoal and wood for grilling but

for real BBQ it's wood only. Currently I am using Oak and or Plum.

[gizmo1979]

17. Plum I never heard of that

Where are you from Mr.McD?

[Mr. McD]

21. Southern California

Any hard wood is good for BBQ.

[cheezus]

18. yep, quality charcoal with wood

bbq is different from grilling, yet you always grill at A bbq. go figure.

[Blue-Jay]

19. Let's ask the expert.

[MisterP]

20. I just drink motor oil--oh, for barbequing?

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

22. Neither charcoal nor gas - juniper wood

Juniper wood gives a better taste than hickory chips, mesquite, charcoal or anything else I've tried. When I see charcoal it reminds me of the way homes were heated years ago that had coal burning furnaces in the basement and coalmen delivered coal door-to-door. It just doesn't seem right.

[HEyHEY]

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[gizmo1979]

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