On 8/9/2013 5:53 PM, Chuck Hards wrote:
Pfft!
Gas is for amateurs and people afraid of real fire. Charcoal or wood rules.
I'm on my sixth grill. Ok, the first was a hibachi, but I was 16. That's almost 40 years of pit mastery.
I am the king.
Chuck has left the building!
My first venture was using a oval baking pot I got at the Salvation Army, coupled with a junked refrigerator shelf (in the '50s, who was afraid of lead?). Kept some sand in the bottom for insulation. Used it at many ski areas in the NW, often at quite high elevations. Tool a GI shovel to get to bare ground or asphalt. if snow was too deep, I used a piece of plywood to sit it on, & cooked burgers & brats or hot dogs. Usually had quite a few laughing onlookers, but the food was great and cheap. Our daughter's birthday is Dec 20 and to use charcoal at that time of the year caused me to earn a nickname of "2 coal" Holmes. 73