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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.

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*JimH* wrote:


On the way from Providence to Waterville we would also stop at the shops in
Freeport, including the LL Bean store.


Did they bend you over there? :-)


I have very fond memories of Maine.


Fortunate, as Maine has been re-annexed by Massachussetts who is now
bascially supporting Maine again as it did before 1820 when it could
not longer afford to do so because of the biggest military blunder by
white man in history here which it had financed during the revolution,
which set in motion the chain of events originally leading to
discontent, separation & statehood. Only the name deceptively remains.
There have been half-supported movements by Aroostock County to seceed
for this reason, but the sailing is lousy there. :-)


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.

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?

wrote:
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?

Yes the beer is expensive...but at least it has some kick vs that girlie
stuff sold south of the border.
What's wrong with black rubber boots? They are very practical in the
rural areas and even city boys like me own a pair.