This is an issue that really bothers me and I feel that I can no longer hold it in...my friends, I must speak!
COOKING ON A GAS GRILL DOES NOT COUNT AS A BBQ!!
AAAAARRRGGGGHHHH!!
AAAAARRRGGGGHHHH!!
Oh my God, it felt good to get that off my chest!
Yesterday I went to a BBQ at my friend's house. It was good to get out of the house and go have grown up time without the offspring. Don't get me wrong, I love my child but she can be a pain in the ass!
"I'm bored...when are we leaving...how much longer are we going to stay...I'm bored...the battery in my DS died...did I mention I'm bored?"
But luckily the offspring was at a slumber party and mom got to hang out with friends in the "over 30" group!
My friend's put out quite the spread! And best of all, it was grilled on a Webber with charcoal briquettes!
I remember watching my dad load up our Webber with the charcoal...he used to let me douse the briquettes with lighter fluid. The biggest thrill I got was when he let me light them myself for the first time...and it only took two months for my eyebrows to grow back! Kidding! But it was something my dad and I got to do together.
I remember he and the other dad's would talk about the right way to stack the briquette's...should they be laid out flat or should you stack them in a pyramid. I believe it should be in a pyramid.
And just like yesterday's bbq...the food would taste sooo good! There is just something about the way food tastes when it is off a charcoal grill. You don't get the same taste from a gas grill.
I don't like gas grills! They are boushy!
That's right! I said it!
They're boushy!!
Not everyone can afford a big ol' propane gas grill and pay extra for an engineer to put the stupid thing together so that it doesn't blow up in your face and burn down your house. However, you can buy a little hibachi for a couple of bucks to grill up some dogs and burgers.
And a gas grill is nothing more than a glorified stove top! You spent $300 on something that could do the job of a stove top and a special pan...and you look foolish as you impress everyone by turning the knob on your big ol grill..a knob that looks a lot like the ones on the stove.
And the food tastes like it would if it came off the stove. Not that that's a bad thing...but its just not special. If you're going to go through the effort of grilling the payoff should be in the way the food tastes.
A gas grill is not gilling...it's just cooking...outside!
I was at the supermarket today saw that one of these babies was for sale:
A Kingsford Barrel Grill...isn't it beautiful? And if I ever have a house (not a condo) with a yard...I'm getting one of these and I'm having a big ol' Barbecue!!!