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Jack Goff wrote:

Oh, and throw away that gas grill... it's truly for the unwashed masses.
Charcoal, and a Weber kettle-style grille, or one of the many other
varieties that are built properly to include variable vents and inlets
are
your best choice.

Yes - complexity and mystery is necessary to bemuse and baffle guests
into thinking that secret, arcane art is involved...especially the
wife, if there be one...(though properly-fired charcoal is surely far
superior cookery to propane burners).

It does help to live in an area where our grilling weather is only three
weeks... short of a full year! As opposed to a northern three week
grilling
season, it does let us become "one with the grill". :-)

Sound Buddist/mystical. The Dali Lama ordering a burger: "Make me one
with everything..."

What is "grilling weather"? We have 11 months of winter & 30 days of
poor sledding, but we grille & smoke things outdoors year-round. Even
the southern winter tourists in rentals do it (for the high rates they
are ripped off for, they have to do *something* besides watch the 60"
tube, get drunk & ski, yes? It is very important to give them a grille
or two on the snow-covered deck so they will throw most of their beer
cans & kid's diapers off the deck, instead of into the fireplace or hot
tub where they are messier to deal withg).

A microwave? You are kidding, I hope. Microwaved meat taste like...
microwaved meat. Barf.

It is obvious you have never microwaved the shellfish under discussion.
As for freshly shucked big sea scallops, they are even sweeter &
better raw - but not for squeamish flatlanders. :-)


We grill out year round also. We do, however, have to shovel a path on the
deck from the back door to the grill in the winter. ;-)

BTW: The cookout was excellent! Thanks to all for the advice.

I ended up steaming the crab and tails and then put the tails on the grill
for a couple of minutes after the jumbo shrimp were done.

wrote in message
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Jack Goff wrote:

Oh, and throw away that gas grill... it's truly for the unwashed masses.
Charcoal, and a Weber kettle-style grille, or one of the many other
varieties that are built properly to include variable vents and inlets
are
your best choice.

Yes - complexity and mystery is necessary to bemuse and baffle guests
into thinking that secret, arcane art is involved

Seems to have worked with you!


...(though properly-fired charcoal is surely far
superior cookery to propane burners).

A glimmer of hope.


What is "grilling weather"? We have 11 months of winter & 30 days of
poor sledding, but we grille & smoke things outdoors year-round.

When it's 20 degrees, wind chill -10, and you can't tend the grill more than
5 minutes without frostbite, you aren't grilling. Hell, the grill won't
heat up properly! I grill more in two months than you probably do in a
year. Grilling once between September and June doesn't really count now,
does it? ;-)

Don White wrote:

They could always give back the northern half to Canada.
Our Trans Canada highway has to go all the $%^%$ way up to Quebec when
we drive west. A straighter road would shave miles and hours off the trip.

I suppose this would be economically beneficial both ways. But our
northerm Mainers would have to start wearing black rubber boots & get
used to expensive beer, eh?