Me too!

Hot air won’t boil water easily. Infrared will (flame and coals). Put a pot over a flame and it boils fast. In the oven, not so much. You need lots of IR energy. Some gas grills are kinda wimpy...

Spill hot oil on a grill and you lose a $400 grill. Spill hot oil on a flame indoors and you lose a house. Ask the firemarshall which is worse. Besides my article recommends 1-2" of oil in a high heavy Dutch oven. Hard to spill.

Exactly!

Mom? Is that you? Cut it out! ;)

Big fan of Claire!

I like this idea!

Great idea! You can also do this with any old cloche and a smoking gun or a knockoff. Just pump smoke into a cloche and put it down over the drink (or oysters, etc.)

Amen!

Not over flame. Over smoldering anise pod.