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Notes of a backyard griller, without many gadgets and gear. A propane grill, fork, tongs, and spatula is all I need to grill hamburgers, hot dogs, and the occasional chicken.
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A Really Fine Grill: For Someone Else
"Kalamazoo Outdoor Gourmet™ Hybrid Grills Bring Precision, Versatility to the Outdoor Kitchen During the Fall Grilling Season" Kalamazoo Outdoor Gourmet press release (October 2, 2009) "With football season underway and the fall holidays fast appro...
Autumn, Three Burgers, and a Loud Motor
It was about 50 out when I grilled burgers this noon: a fairly typical fall temperature here in central Minnesota. Today I'd been given three burger patties to take care of - apparently my wife isn't storing 'leftover' burgers any more. I'm learning ...
Autumn\'s Here: Chilly, Damp Autumn
The forecast says it'll get up to about 50 degrees Saturday. It's been raining - which we need - but there's a good chance the grass will have dried out by then. And, if all goes well, I'll be out there, grilling burgers around noon. I'm not one of t...
Steaks and Philosophy
As I posted earlier in another blog (Through One Dad's Eye (September 15, 2009)), yesterday my wife asked me if I'd like to grill steak for supper. That was a welcome question, after a grill-less weekend. It took me about 25 minutes to finish the ste...
Special Occasions, Outdoor Grilling, and This Household
I get the impression, reading about people and grilling, that it's a special-occasions event. It works that way in my household, sometimes. But not as a rule. Now that I've recovered from 2007, when my body was in for maintenance and repairs, I expec...
Let's Hear it for Simple!
My wife had me re-fill the LP tank for our grill today, so that I could grill potatoes. Getting the tank filled was more work than the grilling. My wife had wrapped the potatoes in metal foil, and carried the lot out to the grill wrapped in a towel. ...
Grilling, Above and Beyond the Call of Routine
As a rule, I only grill on weekends: at noon; burgers. Breaks in that schedule are generally gaps, when some family activity or other event intrudes on the routine. Today was an exception. My wife called me to action around 4:30, with four steaks to ...
Big Green Egg, Eggheads: Japan's Kamado With a Western Touch
I learned about Big Green Eggs a few hours ago. I've been grilling for years, but somehow this western take on Japan's traditional kamado escaped me. Digging around, I found these two YouTube videos: which give a pretty good look at the Big Green Egg...
Grilling on July Fourth: Burgers, Steaks, Church Bells, Birdsongs, and a Really Hot Handle
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...
A Grill Propane Tank Infotisement and My Equipment Maintenance Philosophy
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, ...
New Jersey Townhomes May Ban Grilling
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...
Competitive BBQ? Teams??
"Grill Girls" Episode GXSP01H Food Network "Move over Master of the Grill. All over America, there's a new chef (wo)manning the fire and she s discovering the thrill of the grill! We follow an all-women s barbecue team hoping to make a name for thems...
