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Title: At last! The science is settled.
Post by: vaskidmark on May 26, 2014, 08:04:14 PM
The science is settled!

http://www.wired.com/2013/07/charcoal-grilling-is-objectively-scientifically-better-than-gas-2/

Except that there's this:

http://www.wired.com/2013/07/gas-grilling-is-objectively-scientifically-better-than-charcoal/

Regardless, it's good to know the science has been settled.  Always was a bit leery of science that rattled around.

stay safe.




Fixed Linkey #2  ;)
Title: Re: At last! The science is settled.
Post by: Hawkmoon on May 26, 2014, 08:28:58 PM
I don't really want my steaks to taste like bacon. I do want my bacon to taste like bacon, but I would much prefer that my steaks taste more like ... steak. Some things are sacred.

And I saw an article today that said our EPA is earmarking a significant chunk of money to study ways to improve health by using cooking methods that don't emit smoke into the dwelling place -- even though they acknowledge that virtually nobody in the U.S. cooks on wood stoves or over open fires and that the problem exists entirely in third world countries.

http://www.epa.gov/research/airscience/air-cleancookstove.htm
Title: Re: At last! The science is settled.
Post by: freakazoid on May 27, 2014, 12:04:49 AM
You posted the same link twice.
Title: Re: At last! The science is settled.
Post by: Marnoot on May 27, 2014, 12:22:31 AM
You posted the same link twice.

Pretty sure this was supposed to be the second one:

http://www.wired.com/2013/07/gas-grilling-is-objectively-scientifically-better-than-charcoal/
Title: Re: At last! The science is settled.
Post by: RoadKingLarry on May 27, 2014, 01:47:14 AM
Charcoal is for wimps. Gas is for those even less manly than wimps.
Hickory, apple, pecan, mequite, oak (among others) WOOD as nature intended meat to be cooked over.


City folk  :facepalm:
Title: Re: At last! The science is settled.
Post by: roo_ster on May 27, 2014, 11:23:07 AM
Charcoal is for wimps. Gas is for those even less manly than wimps.
Hickory, apple, pecan, mequite, oak (among others) WOOD as nature intended meat to be cooked over.


City folk  :facepalm:

Wood is for almost-wimps.  Real Men cook over dried buffalo dung.
Title: Re: At last! The science is settled.
Post by: charby on May 27, 2014, 11:25:56 AM
Charcoal is for wimps. Gas is for those even less manly than wimps.
Hickory, apple, pecan, mequite, oak (among others) WOOD as nature intended meat to be cooked over.


City folk  :facepalm:

Gotta find time to get the fire going, then let to turn to coals. Real men work for a living, so they don't have hours to waste on building a fire and getting enough coals to cook over.

Title: Re: At last! The science is settled.
Post by: K Frame on May 27, 2014, 12:06:18 PM
You're all a bunch of pussies.

REAL MEN, not you metrosexual wanna bes, cook over actively erupting volcanos.

Lacking an actively erupting volcano, they eat their meat raw.
Title: Re: At last! The science is settled.
Post by: Daniel964 on May 27, 2014, 01:37:45 PM
You're all a bunch of pussies.

REAL MEN, not you metrosexual wanna bes, cook over actively erupting volcanos.

Lacking an actively erupting volcano, they eat their meat raw.

Looks like thread win to me.  =D
Title: Re: At last! The science is settled.
Post by: Scout26 on May 27, 2014, 01:58:43 PM
Which is why I have a dual (actually quad grill),  On those days when when we're not rushing to baseball, football, or Boy Scouts, I can take time and use the Charcoal side and slow cook some meat.  On those days when we have to be somewhere within a few hours of school letting out, then I fire up the propane side and cook meat a little quicker. 

 
So I prefer both, as there aren't many active volcanoes in Northern Illinois to cook my meat over.
Title: Re: At last! The science is settled.
Post by: T.O.M. on May 27, 2014, 02:14:44 PM
I've got both a Weber kettle charcoal grill and a Weber gas grill.  If my cook time is under 30 minutes, I use the gas.  If it is more than 30 minutes, time to fire up Old Smokey.  I use a chimney starter for the charcoal, which avoids the lighter fluid smell and taste, and also speeds up the time to get the grill ready...about 10 minutes to get a good coal base ready to cook on.  I've also used real wood in my charcoal grill, when I have good hickory, apple, or cherry wood to burn.
Title: Re: At last! The science is settled.
Post by: lupinus on May 27, 2014, 02:26:06 PM
Which is why I have a dual (actually quad grill),  On those days when when we're not rushing to baseball, football, or Boy Scouts, I can take time and use the Charcoal side and slow cook some meat.  On those days when we have to be somewhere within a few hours of school letting out, then I fire up the propane side and cook meat a little quicker.  

 
So I prefer both, as there aren't many active volcanoes in Northern Illinois to cook my meat over.
There's always the run something over and gnaw it on the way option, for when you're really in a hurry.
Title: Re: At last! The science is settled.
Post by: cambeul41 on May 28, 2014, 10:17:50 AM
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Wood is for almost-wimps.  Real Men cook over dried buffalo dung.

I never tried that, but cow chips, yes.  They should be about the same.

In the early 1950s, my scout troop in Colorado often used them. My memory is of well dried chips producing a smokeless, low, blue flame which put a touch – but not too much – of ash on the food.  =D