Some people, like you, are freakin’ awesome.

Agreed. It’s Graphics Interchange Format and the G is hard in Graphics, therefore the acronym letter is pronounced with the hard sound. You don’t change the sound of letters just because you abbreviate the words, son. Even the master of Imgur is wrong on those same grounds, but that’s okay he can be wrong all the way…

MacGyveriller, MacGriller, MacGyveriller Gerriller. Yeah, MacGyveriller Gerriller. I think Alton Brown, somewhere, just shed a tear he was so moved by the imagery of your “where there is a will there is a way to grill” there! I know I did. That’s beautiful. I just hope it was stainless and not galvanized. (Yay Zinc…

I can argue that, very easily, because when gas is done correctly, you cannot possibly tell that the food was cooked on gas. Real smoke is real smoke and you can get real smoke from woodchips while using gas. This has actually been tested and proven that people cannot reliably taste the different on food that is…

No, but you can make a Barbecuerhood out of leather or woven fiberglass yarn if you want... it’s more heat resistant that way. I find the hoods are too hot to wear while managing the fire and frankly if my head is getting that close to the fire that I need a Barbecuerhood while I’m working on it, I think I’m probably…

That artificially makes you a better person...which of course we all know means that really makes you a better artificial person. (It only improves your artificial score, not your actual score...That’s like the difference between playing a video game without cheat codes and earning achievements / trophies and someone…

I have to wait for my grill to cool enough to put the cover back on it...otherwise I’m too lazy to put it back on for another day or two. So, yeah, you still have to wait, but not nearly as long. 20 minutes with the grill closed. 10 minutes with the grill open and it’s more than cool enough.

If the meetup ever happens, you can definitely crash. Heck if you want to come out to NM, where the weather is hot and the air is dry, come check it out. I’ll sizzle up something on the grill or smoke something in the ELECTRIC smoker.... (how’s that for sacrilege? Purists are dropping like flies left and right after…

That would be truly evil. (pinky to corner of mouth.)

I agree. Technology. Like lasers, shooting all mosquitoes out of the sky. Pew pew pew.

Even cutting a chicken breast wont’ tell you if it’s reached the safe temperature. The instant read thermometer will, but for chicken breasts, I just pound them all out so that they are all the same thickness more or less. I stick the remote meat probe into the thickest one (because I can’t get them perfectly the…

Just because an animal eats mosquitos doesn’t mean that it’s their sole foodsource. Even bats, who would be the most affected by it, would still survive on a wide range of other flying insects. No other critter, that I can think of, actively hunts us and pursues us as a source of food more so than mosquitos. If they…

Heck, the video from a day or two ago where they were grilling over lava.... that would be the next step above grilling over MAP gas. Lava would be the “extreme charcoal” version and MAP gas would be an extreme gas grilling... though if you really want to go for broke, grill over an oxyacetylene torch used for cutting.

When it comes to those nuisance critters I mentioned, I don’t think serial or parallel quite captures it. Let’s put it this way. I’m never for the wholesale extinction of a species, but for Mosquitos, I would make an exception, if there was a way. For the other three, complete local eradication is fine by me. If there…

I’m from Mesilla Valley, so if you feel like travelling out to the desert to have some BBQ, we can throw some meat down and drink some brew. I’d love to come visit the Oregon / Washington area someday, but I don’t see that happening soon.

It might be toxic. It might blow up. It might burn the cover off your grill. I really don’t know, but I suspect one of these things are likely. I’m not against you experimenting, because I want to know too, but I am against you getting hurt or hurting someone else.

BTW: Everything in this article is EXCELLENT advise. Some grill articles come with things that are “rules” that really do have lots of exceptions, but this one is full of great advise. As others and myself have pointed out, elsewhere, investing in a REALLY good temperature probe or two is very important, too. If I…

I’m a mosquito, ant, fly and cockroach killer. But, they make sprays and traps for that. ;)

...and most of that work is purely mental. My response isn’t directed at you, but rather you inspired me to continue my previous thought a little further: You have to know what your pros and cons are for any kind of grill that you are going to use. Use the pros to your advantage. Address the cons that you can mitigate…

A good gas grill provides plenty of smoke too. The fat drips down and burns on the rocket hot metal plates that cover the flame elements. More importantly than that, is my point earlier that it is the griller and NOT the grill that makes the difference. A good gas griller (the person) will add extra flavor either to…