Recent Posts Tagged With 'safety'

• Grilling on July Fourth: Burgers, Steaks, Church Bells, Birdsongs, and a Really Hot Handle

  Posted on Saturday July 4th, 2009 at 12:03 in summer, safety, experience, season, the human condition

  I got to grill twice today: burgers at noon and steak for supper. I got the steaks overly-done, even by my standards: I'll get back to that. Both sessions were accompanied by birdsongs and church bells: Our Lady of the Angels church is two blocks nor...

• Holiday Grilling: Independence Day, Canada Day, 14 Juillet, Grundlovsdag - - -

  Posted on Friday July 3rd, 2009 at 08:22 in Culture, recipes, Common Sense, safety, grilling

  Grilling on Independence Day is a sort of American tradition: but this isn't the only country where people celebrate something special by setting meat over a fire until it's ready to eat. While I was looking for something else, I ran into a PR Newswi...

• A Grill Propane Tank Infotisement and My Equipment Maintenance Philosophy

  Posted on Tuesday June 30th, 2009 at 08:22 in Common Sense, safety, the human condition, lp gas

  The Cody Enterprise1 article starts like dozens of others across America: "Independence Day is the most popular outdoor cooking holiday of the year with more than two-thirds of Americans firing up the grill, smoker or fryer, according to the Hearth, ...

• Going to Grill on the Fourth of July? You Might Want to Read This

  Posted on Saturday June 27th, 2009 at 18:19 in Common Sense, holidays, safety, season

  I enjoy grilling year-round, which takes care of some of the seasonal maintenance issues that come with grilling. From what I read, some folks in America start grilling around July 4th. Which I see is coming up: fast. There's some pretty good advice ...

• New Jersey Townhomes May Ban Grilling

  Posted on Thursday June 25th, 2009 at 09:42 in Common Sense, safety, the human condition

  In a culture which finds it necessary to warn consumers that a clear jar of peanuts contains peanuts, when the peanuts are clearly visible, and the label already says "PEANUTS," I suppose this sort of thing makes sense. The Hermitage Townhomes Comple...

• Don't Set Fire to Yourself or Your House: Good Advice from the NFPA

  Posted on Tuesday June 16th, 2009 at 14:05 in Common Sense, safety, fire, outdoor grilling

  If you've read the "Extreme Safety: Above and Beyond the Call of Reason" page on Easy Griller, you know that I'm not a particularly jittery advocate of safety. I think that's partly because I remember a world where transparent jars of peanuts didn't ...

• Thanksgiving Next Week

  Posted on Sunday November 18th, 2007 at 12:54 in safety, grilling, flame

  This weekend's grilling went better than last, in a way. A week ago yesterday, the grill's flames reached out and touched someone: me. There's more over at "Through One Dad's Eye."I see that I've been neglecting this blog. Time to stop that.This week...

• Fire Safety, or A Tale of Two Matches

  Posted on Saturday August 11th, 2007 at 22:37 in safety, fire, grilling

  This may not be "substantive," but I'll post it anyway.I grilled this evening, instead of around noon, thanks to some mis-communication between my wife and our oldest daughter.That was a good thing, I think, since this way I grilled in the shade, and...

• Most Important Grilling Tool: Common Sense

  Posted on Tuesday July 31st, 2007 at 01:51 in safety, outdoor grilling, lp gas

  Some excellent advice for the outdoor griller:Grill outside - carbon monoxide is bad for your healthFind what you need to light the fire before turning on the gasIf your LP gas cylinder doesn't have an OPD (Overfilling Prevention Device), get a new c...