Grilling

[Anonymous No.20323105]

So I hit 30 and suddenly, with no reason in particular, I wanted to start grilling. I have absolutely nothing right now so the slate is clean. Is charcoal the way to go or propane? Besides mushrooms what are some other non-meats that a grill can make better?

[Anonymous No.20323113]

>>20323105
>first thought is what non-meats can I grill?
give up you already lost

[Anonymous No.20323124]

>>20323113
I was gonna grill hot dogs and burgers first. Not those shitty thick patties though I like them thin.

[Anonymous No.20323125]

>>20323105
Corn, zucchini, bell 'ppers
Make you a veggie kabob

[Anonymous No.20323129]

>>20323125
lamb kebab hell yeah

[Anonymous No.20323139]

>>20323105
tomato

[Anonymous No.20323145]

>>20323105
How often do you plan to grill? I haven’t grilled for a while but I prefer the speed and ease of propane.

Eggplant, onion, pineapple, or peaches are a few more non-meats for the grill, and you can do foil wrapped taters.

[Anonymous No.20323153]

>not smoking
tell me you're emasculated without telling me you're emasculated

[Anonymous No.20323156]

>>20323145
>How often do you plan to grill?
Probably every weekend, I'm a loner though so only cooking for myself and my dog.

[Anonymous No.20323178]

>>20323124
Smash burgers should be cooked on a flat top grill of cast iron pan.

[Anonymous No.20323180]

>>20323105
we're in the same boat, I hit 35 this year, and I'm taking up grilling.
I've decided on a weber charcoal basic grill to cut my teeth on.
I also think at least 3 cheeky Kiss the Cook aprons, the boomeriest possible.
>non-meats
corn, pineapple, veggie kabobs, I dunno if there's kabob tofu

[Anonymous No.20323188]

>>20323180
I still need one for my house and I'm 41

[Anonymous No.20323197]

>>20323180
>>20323188
I'm only 22. Am I too late to be a grillchad?

[Anonymous No.20323202]

>>20323153
how do you know hes not

[Anonymous No.20323206]

>>20323153
I don't smoke cigarettes. We all know who buys those.

[Anonymous No.20323226]

>>20323197
nah, it's good to start young

[Anonymous No.20323229]

Persian grilled tomatoes

[Anonymous No.20323231]

For deciding between propane or charcoal, there's several things to consider.

Propane grills are best suited for grilling and not smoking. They heat up quickly and are perfect for things that don't need a long cook time. Burgers, hot dogs, steaks, kebobs, chicken legs and breasts, pork chops, most fish. Propane is heavier than air so the gas falls while the heat rises.

Charcoal is best suited for slow cooked and smoked meals. It take a while to get charcoal hot enough to start cooking but it can keep its temperature longer. Charcoal also requires some maintaining while cooking to keep the heat up. I find charcoal best for the things that need to cook for over a hour. Pork shoulder, pork belly, brisket, whole chicken.

Both grill types can be used for grilling and smoking, its just a matter of what they are best suited for.

[Anonymous No.20323236]

>>20323231
I want my grilling to be more of a ritual event, at least at first.
that's why I'm going charcoal, there's the bit of prep and upkeep that makes it different than cooking in my kitchen.

[Anonymous No.20323242]

>>20323105
Propane is easier to manage. Asparagus, green beans, potatoes, sprouts, squash and squash derivatives, tomatoes, shrooms, shit like that. Normal stuff.

[Anonymous No.20323249]

>>20323105
unless you're down to spend thousands on a grill--not because propane is necessarily more expensive, it's just propane grills are shitty up until a certain price point--get charcoal

[Anonymous No.20323254]

>>20323249
A cheap charcoal "grill" is nothing but two bits of hammered out chink metal that you're gonna pay 500% of its value for. A gas grill you can get for 60 bucks, which is also the cost of the chink charcoal grill.

[Anonymous No.20323271]

>>20323105
Propane is like training wheels on a bike
Real men cook with charcoal

[Anonymous No.20323274]

>>20323145
>How often do you plan to grill? I haven’t grilled for a while but I prefer the speed and ease of propane.
propane is for pussies

[Anonymous No.20323317]

>>20323274

[Anonymous No.20323372]

If you're grilling with propane, you might as well be cooking on the stove inside. Get a charcoal grill and a chimney starter with some lighting cubes.

[Anonymous No.20323473]

>>20323105
Neither, pick up a decent pellet smoker, as long as it's not a vertical one, you can easily grill on it, mine even comes with a door you can open to expose the flames directly to the meat.

[Anonymous No.20323475]

>>20323105
>Is charcoal the way to go or propane?
Wood. If you absolutely can't, charcoal.
Why the fuck would you be cooking with gas, you can do that in your kitchen anyway.

[Anonymous No.20323636]

>>20323124
>burgers. Not those shitty thick patties though
thick patties that are a bit red inside and extremely juicy will be much better when you grill them. thin smash burgers will be pretty much the same as in a cast iron pan, pretty pointless and like the other guy said you'll need a flat top or similar to smash them

[Anonymous No.20323656]

>>20323317
He's right you know.
>taste the meat not the heat
I want to taste the heat. You effectively just dragged your wife's range into the backyard.

[Anonymous No.20323664]

>>20323656
Radical centrist here, I light my charcoal with a propane torch.

[Anonymous No.20324038]

>>20323105
Old fuck here. Get a webber kettle grill. Its design has been the same for over 70 years and there is a reason for that. It's the most versatile grill around. You can grill direct/ indirect and smoke pretty dam easily. Charcoal briquettes and wood add flavor op! Also the pocess of cracking a cold beer, lighting the coals and getting them just right while you drink is a relaxing experience.

[Anonymous No.20324623]

>>20323105
>Charcoal or propane
If you get one you will want the other. both have merits, most people who get into grilling end up owning both. They let you make different types of food, cooking outside is fun no matter what you're making, bbq nuts arent much different from pizza oven nuts. if you want a great starter bbq that lets you do a lot, get a Weber kettle. Bonus, in most of the northern US we're entering Free Grill Season where all the weak people who failed to cover their grills over the winter and quail before the thought of repairing a little rust themselves put nice bbqs out on the curb. If you keep your eyes out you can almost certainly pick up a good kettle and a good propane bbq that need at most some heat resistant spray paint, an hour's worth of elbow grease and YouTube videos, and $100 in parts. I've never purchased a grill in my life and I've owned a bunch of top quality $1k+ bbqs this way. Sometimes they even leave them out back on the deck.
>>20323124
>Burgers and dogs
Tastes better on charcoal. But you can eat burgers off a propane grill in the time it takes to preheat a charcoal grill. And the taste of charcoal gets old. Get both. If you can have one, get charcoal.

[Anonymous No.20324871]

>>20323129
lamb's not a veggie gtfo

[Anonymous No.20325060]

>>20323105
Onions, garlic

[Anonymous No.20325173]

>>20323105
Wrap veggies in tinfoil with some water and salt and pepper and steam them on the grill

[Anonymous No.20325177]

>>20323105
This is something your dad should've taught you, and here you are at 30, asking a board full of right wing schizo incel manchildren how to grill. What went wrong?

[Anonymous No.20325180]

>>20323105
Get a few of these OP. my wife was nagging that the bristles on the cleaning brush made the food taste weird so I got these HAHA! always happy to help a fellow griller, you should really get them though.

[Anonymous No.20325203]

>>20325177
stfu, who spends time grillin' with they dad when there's vidya?

[Anonymous No.20325209]

>>20325180
What are they called? I've been using pic related for years and my food tastes fucking awful.

[Anonymous No.20325233]

>>20325209
Just "grill cleaning stones" or something. Pumice i think, really cheap and disposable. I gave up on your pic related because the bristles get nasty quick, are impossible to clean and the plastic fuckin melts at the slightest heat. Yeah I really need bits of plastic or whatever the fuck that is melted onto my grill

[Anonymous No.20325266]

>>20323105
Before you do anything, get yourself a bag of charcoal, pop down to the local park with some meat, use the grill on a stand they got (after cleaning it up) and grill some burgers on the charcoal. If you don't like it, go propane. If you love it, get a charcoal offset. The offset will let you grill and smoke.

Grills can do pizza (via stone), corn, veggies on skewers, and anything you want to slap in cast iron.

>>20323473
You cannot grill on a pellet smoker, they don't get hot enough, and if you did use that "grill" mode, you are gonna get a tornado of ash dust. Pellet smokers just smoke, they don't grill well at all.

>>20323475
If you have a shit fume hood. Or no fume hood.

[Anonymous No.20326708]

>>20325266
Mine(and others) have a grate that you can open to expose the flame directly to the meat, it absolutely works, and it absolutely gets hot enough to grill well.
Basically like this, except mine is on the left side.
In any case smoked meat>>>>>>grilled meat any day

[Anonymous No.20326712]

>>20323105
Look at this delicious ribeye, made on a smoker.
>>20325266

[Anonymous No.20326715]

>>20323105
charcoal gives you extra flavour

propane gives you poisoned meat

one is natural the other is a petrochemical product

[Anonymous No.20326810]

>>20323105
Charcoal all the way. It gives you a unique flavour which makes grilling for food actually worth it and comes with the experience of sitting with your friends around a fire. You can only win.

[Anonymous No.20326831]

Gas grill is too weak in the temperature department to call it a grill because really its just a gas stove with a cooking plate. I go with a iron grate and wood, i dont like the smell of industrial charcoal on my fóod.
You can grill anything, there is no authority tjat denies you to enjoy grilled eggs if you like them.

[Anonymous No.20326873]

>>20323105
Pick up a cheap short stack / egg smoker if you want an introduction to smoking with charcoal. Or go balls deep if you've had any friends with a smoker and you know you want to smoke food.

For an outdoor grill, propane is super convenient. I can throw burgers on the grill whenever I feel like it with merely a few seconds of prep effort and a few minutes of waiting to pre-heat. Same amount of effort and efficiency in the rain and the snow as well. Temperature is also very easy to control.
Charcoal and wood can give you better flavor. But it takes more effort and has a longer start-up time. It's more susceptible to weather conditions. Temperature control requires more skill. But you can typically hit higher temperatures more easily. Which can be very important for searing.

[Anonymous No.20326876]

>>20323113
>give up you already lost
Your too pessimistic, Anon. Clearly he already knows that grills make meats better, so he's asking about the stuff that's not obvious.

[Anonymous No.20327028]

>>20323105
Charcoal has a learning curve. But once you learn it it is more versatile than propane. Better flavor. I really like grilled asparagus. Anaheim peppers are good too.

[Anonymous No.20327523]

>>20323105
>I wanted to start grilling. I have absolutely nothing right now so the slate is clean
steal a shopping card (bix nood muhfugga)
add plates and grills which will be free or very cheap
hit up construction sites and ask if they have spare bricks/concrete if you're feeling fancy
swag e-z mobile charcoal grill for less than a hundred bucks, no better way to get started homie
see webm for a smoker variant

[Anonymous No.20327571]

Propane is retarded, literally what's the point. Just use an oven instead.
For me the benefit of grilling is smoke flavour, char and being able to get great sear, which propane can do neither of.

[Anonymous No.20328414]

start with charcoal, upgrade to pellets/gas

[Anonymous No.20328418]

>>20323105
I used to be a propane coper because propane is simply easier. But when I tried charcoal, you can't go back. It's easy to fuck up which is why a lot of people are put off by it, they use too much lighter fluid, don't let the coals fully set before putting on the meat, and other things that add undesirable flavors. If you ignite the coals without soaking them in fuel and let them all reach a whitened red-hot state, then add wood chips, it's based.
I also use wood by burning thinner logs and thick sticks until they are coals.

Propane is not bad but it's 100% sacrificing flavor for convenience.

[Anonymous No.20328429]

>>20323105
Propane, taste the meat not the heat.

[Anonymous No.20328699]

>>20323105
How did you never learn to grill? Are you an orphan or something? Even single mother kids go to family cookouts and learn how to grill from male relatives.

[Anonymous No.20328877]

>>20325177
>right wing schizo incel manchildren
speak for yourself

[Anonymous No.20328953]

>>20323206
Yeah your mom

[Anonymous No.20328955]

>>20325177
>a board full of right wing schizo incel manchildren
What gave you that idea? There’s a lot of women, lefties, gays, and trans anons on /ck/. Not even joking. This is a pretty diverse board.

[Anonymous No.20328970]

>>20328955
as someone who frequents /sp/, /lit/, /out/, /his/, /wg/, /an/, /mu/, /tv/ and others, this is honestly probably true. lowest density of nazi retards i've seen on 4chan

[Anonymous No.20328994]

>>20328955
>There’s a lot of women, lefties, gays, and trans anons on /ck/. Not even joking. This is a pretty diverse board.
Diversity is our strength. Inclusion increases our numbers. Equity allows us to acknowledge our white supremacy and do everything in our power to eliminate it, in every form, including white privilege.
There is nothing more shameful than being a heterosexual male cisgender man.

[Anonymous No.20329033]

>>20328955
>There’s a lot of women, lefties, gays, and trans anons on all of 4chan
FTFY
This site is for LARPers baiting LARPers and has been since 2012.