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> but I'd imagine that long-term you might want to avoid it. It's safe now. People use it for compost all the time. The real danger from a BBQ is smoke.
by aaron695 10y ago
> but I'd imagine that long-term you might want to avoid it.
It's safe now. People use it for compost all the time.
The real danger from a BBQ is smoke.
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- wavefunction 10y agoThe whole point of barbecue is indirect cooking with smoke. Unless y'all mean grilling when you say BBQ.
- riffraff 10y agois this for real ? I've always meant grilling and assumed anyone else meant the same :( EDIT: might be a linguistic issue, wikipedia has different meanings of BBQ in different languages.
- afarrell 10y agoYea, if you hear "BBQ" and think "grilling", then you might be missing out on the phenomenon that is real southern BBQ, which is a significantly different culinary phenomenon. Growing up in the northeast US, I didn't learn about the existence of BBQ until I was 23.
- jeremy7600 10y agoSadly this was the case for me until Dinosaur BBQ made their way into the local scene. Now I smoke my own pork shoulders, ribs and chicken. And its much cheaper this way :)
- davegardner 10y agoThat's just one of the many words that have different meanings in different countries. We Australians take our barbecueing very seriously and it rarely involves indirect cooking. :-) The most common form of barbecueing here involves cooking on a flat hotplate over direct heat.
- nazgul17 10y agoI noticed this difference when I moved in Australia a couple of years ago. My first guess would be that hot plates are safer than fires from a wild fire point of view (which are quite a concern in Australia), and this is now engrained in the culture. However, I could be wrong and it has always been like this. Any thoughts?
- afarrell 10y agoThe tragic thing about this is that it prevents people in places like the northeastern US from realising that the phenomenon of real BBQ exists. I know that until met my wife at age 23, I had never even seen actual slow-cooked collagen-has-turned-to-gelatin BBQ. This isn't an instance of the Scotsman fallacy, it is a genuine category error.
- dreamcompiler 10y agoExactly. I'm originally from Texas, where they have a pretty serious idea about what the label "BBQ" means. And it absolutely does not mean grilling burgers over charcoal.
- nommm-nommm 10y agoI remember on one of those restaurant impossible/kitchen nightmare type shows where the restaurant was a BBQ place. Host: do you know BBQ actually is? Restaurant owner: the sauce?
- afarrell 10y agoRight. My wife grew up in Houston.
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- stevenwiles 10y agoThen you Australians aren't actually barbecuing, are you? ;)