OT grill gloat

[Silvan]

The only thing it has to do with woodworking is burning wood to make food taste good, but I have to share this one anyway.

I was at Wally-World looking at garden stuff with SWMBO. I was standing in front of a stack of grills, not looking at them, when the garden department manager called out to me "Hey, I just marked those down to $30!"

I started looking, thinking. Maybe... I have a grill, it has been faithful, and I have put a dozen whole cows through that thing over the years I've owned it. It's ugly, but it has done the job for what must be a decade now.

I was scratching my beard, still pondering on it. The grill in question was nicer than mine, and $30 was a good deal. I was about to grab it, but hadn't yet made a move in that direction, when she came back and said "OK, here, I have to get rid of these things. See that over there? That's the last one, and I can let you have that one for $30 too if you'll just save me from having to find some place to put it.

It was originally $98, marked down to $50, and I got it for $30. It's HUGE. It weighs close to a hundred pounds. It has all kinds of glinkleflutzits and blinfths the likes of which I've never seen on a charcoal grill. It's not quite big enough to roast a whole hog, but it's good for anything short of that.

Damn shame it's supposed to snow tonight. Damn shame. I can't wait to fire this thing up, slap some meat on it, crack open a cold one... Ahhhhhh.

Now all I need is for the corn on the cob to come in. I guess I'll be waiting awhile on that score, unless I cheat and buy some at the store.

[Dave Miller]

Very nice score! Believe me, you can grill in the snow, if you want to. SWMBO will stare at you kinda funny the first time you do it (DAMHIKT), at least until the soup's on. NOthing like a taste of summer, esp. in the wintertime. Bigger risk for you is once she knows you can do grill in bad weather, "let's order pizza" could become "why don't you just fire up the grill tonight, you can use my umbrella."

Enjoy the grill!

Silvan wrote:

[Will]

What was your address again?

Guess you'll have to take up woodturning so you can make lots of charcol. :-)

Silvan wrote:

[Edwin Pawlowski]

What???? You got a gloat and now you're going to wus out because of a little snow? Real men grill year round. . Now I'm going to have to teach you how to make your own charcoal. All you need is a steel drum with a lid. Some things are done better with charcoal over the wood itself.

[Patriarch]

"Edwin Pawlowski" wrote in news:No8Td.35525$ [e-mail]:

Now I'm going to have to do up some sausages on the grill tonight...

Thanks, guys! Good idea!

Patriarch

[Lew Hodgett]

Even if they aren't "Brats", assume you will be marinating in beer, unless of course, it is Italian, then we have other methods.

Lew

[Bruce]

On Wed, 23 Feb 2005 15:38:28 -0700, Silvan wrote (in article ):

That is the lamest excuse I ever heard!

Get cracking!

(you suck!)

[jo4hn]

Just got back from a very nice vacation in Oz and NZ to find about 5 feet of snow. Had to hire a serious skip loader to dig into the driveway. I can't even SEE my barbeque! LOML is right: the weather won't get better until we throw Bush into a volcano. mahalo, (and ;-) ) jo4hn

[Robatoy]

[snipperectified]

Ssscuuuze me? No grillin' in the snow? There is nothing I like better than pissing off the entire neigbourhood with the wafting scent of burnt offerings in the middle of winter. Best time to run a smoker is in the winter. I can smell mine half-a-mile away.

You did good Michael, therefore thou sucketh. All you need now is a deal on a parka, eh?

[Patriarch]

Lew Hodgett wrote in news:obaTd.4051$MY6.1275 @newsread1.news.pas.earthlink.net:

They usta be Italian. But they are now a warm memory. :-)

[Patriarch]

jo4hn wrote in news:cIaTd.4492$ [e-mail]:

I thought the protocol specified a virgin?

Glad to hear you enjoyed your trip.

Patriarch

[Larry Jaques]

On Wed, 23 Feb 2005 17:38:28 -0500, the inscrutable Silvan spake:

OK, you suck. (Why do all these great deals only show up when we can least afford to buy them, hmmm?)

Is it gas or charcoal? Being single, I can get buy on the $18 Walmart tabletop gas grill. I did get a 10gal tank and adaptor hose for it, though.

Rumor has it that a certain Buffaloite (Buffalosian?) was caught on film BBQing in the snow a few years ago, so it DOES happen. A little weather never stopped a hunger for a STEAK, man.

Corn turns to sugar within a few hours. Grow it and reap the many rewards. (I'm kinda fond of those bigass corn spiders myself.)

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[Lew Hodgett]

Next time you grill those puppies, try parboiling them first/

Put sausage and bout 1/4" water in a covered cast iron skillet for about

10 minutes, then finish on grill.

Then of course if you are true to Dago cooking, you have some sauted onions and peppers along with some great hoagie buns to properly adorn that Italian sausage.

BTW, glad you enjoyed it.

Lew

[Joe C.]

snip of a gloat

Ok, so what're you going to be making out of hickory to feed that beast? Post pics. ;-)

Joe

[Patriarch]

Lew Hodgett wrote in news:uacTd.4206$MY6.387 @newsread1.news.pas.earthlink.net:

That's how it was done, minus the onions. My wife's father was Italian, from Queens.

His mother took it as a challenge to teach my mother-in-law 'how to cook for Tony.' Some skills get passed on.

Patriarch

[John T]

Speaking of grills, yesterday I was at the real hardware store, and they had on for sale, a "texas" charcoal grill. That sucker was 4' diameter, and was "only" 999.00. Big, but I'd only need the whole thing a couple times a year.

And I grill year round here in WI. I'm on my 3rd or 4th propane grill in about 10 years or so, and have about 4 20# bottles of propane on standby. :)

John

[GregP]

Buffalonian [def] One who lives in the Miami of the North (or Anchorage of the South, depending on pov)

There was a photo several weeks ago of two guys playing golf. And if you stand on the shore of the Niagara River near the town of Lewiston any Saturday morning when the air temp is at least 10 degrees, you'll see 10-20 boats' worth of fisher- men angling for steelhead.

[jo4hn]

Jaypers. Maybe they should be "Buffaloids"?

[David D]

SWMBO will stare at you funny? Mine pushes me out the door ... rain, snow, sleet, hail or dark of night, if it can be grilled, she wants it grilled.

[Silvan]

OK, how about "Damn shame I have to leave in a couple hours, and I won't get to use it tonight?" That was the whole story, or I probably would have fired it up already.

I'm going to fire it up tomorrow. The snow will melt off the top. :)

Down side. Now I need to buy a bigger freezer. :)

And Larry, it's a charcoal grill. More fuss, more muss, but three times the taste IMHO.