/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>17795534
Propane is easier, so if you liked propane then stick with it. Get a Weber genesis off craigslist for cheap

>>17795534
How many people are you serving? How often are you grilling? What's your living situation (urban or suburban/rural)? Charcoal is GOAT, boomer kino, and you can get a classic Weber kettle for $200 or less. But the prep/cleanup can be mildly annoying and it takes some practice to get consistent results. If you're grillin' every day, the convenience of gas is hard to argue with, and the flat top makes it easier to do things like veggies and eggs.

>>17795534
Low and slow smoked bbq get a reverse flow grill, green egg, or a drum smoker. If you just cook burgers n steaks get whatever it doesnt really matter.

>>17795534
A dirt cheap kettle style charcoal grill will run absolute circles around a moderately priced propane one, but only if you know what you're doing. Propane is just easy.

>>17795610
To add, if you want to get into charcoal grilling and you're cooking for just a few people max, then you could get a Weber "Smokey Joe" mini-kettle for $50 to try it out.

>>17795534
Depends on what you're cooking. If you actually enjoy food you should own both a charcoal and propane grill.

>>17795633
Personally, I prefer to reheat my McChickens and Dominos pizza on a spit over a slow-burning wood campfire started with flint and steel, like our ancestors intended.

>>17795625
This is the right choice.
It's portable, and if you need to cook for a few people, works really well as well.

>>17795677
Checked. For the complete newbie, a few more points:

>charcoal
Artisanal lump charcoal is nice, but briquettes (e.g. Kingsford) were the suburban boomer choice for decades and are easier to use in a chimney starter due to uniform size. Speaking of which:

>lighting the fire
Lighter fluid is quick, easy and fun (fireball lol), but a lot of folks want to avoid scary chemicals (and looking at me, raised eating petrol burgers, I don't blame them). The alternative is a "chimney starter", pic related, but they can be finicky if it's windy, and if you use paper for kindling then they can spread ash around.

>cleaning
Call me a pussy, but those news stories about steel brushes turned me off them for life:

https://www.consumerreports.org/food-safety/wire-grill-brush-danger/

I use a softer alternative scrubber and citrus-based degreaser. If the grate really needs a cleaning, then I bring it inside to attack with a brillo pad followed by a thorough rinse.

>ash disposal
Do not dispose of ash, either inside or outside, until it has thoroughly cooled, like next-day cooled, or else mixed with water to be sure. (Ask me how I know.)

All of that said, charcoal is the GOAT. There's a reason that men don't stand around a propane appliance drinking beer and shooting the shit.

>>17795534
For me, it's the Mangrate.

>CAST IRON GRILLING GRATE
>NO MORE DRY MEAT
>CHICKEN
>STEAK

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2XawdY22Ek

>>17795534
Serious question, are you all flyover whites with no education?

Seems to me as an Indian American grill culture is just drumpf voting cannon fodder white army families.

>>17795924
>Seems to me as an Indian American
feel free to go back

>>17795924

GOOD MORNING

PLEASE DO THE NEEDFUL AND POO IN LOO

P.S. GRILL IS NOT LOO

>>17795534
Microwave or oven. Microwave preserves the purest taste of the meat, with none of the heat.

>>17795924
What is your culture? Copying white people's infastructure to build casinos so your people can drink themselves to death while they gamble their government cheese away to their tribe leaders??
All the while, the grill in the casino cooks up burgers?

>>17795924
You stink

Charcoal grill with properly prepared/located wood chips if you want that flavor is the most versatile, easiest to control, cleaner, and since charcoal attracts both hipsters and 'muh real men don't use propane' types you now pay a hioster/penis extension premium for using it on top of the extra cost of burning it until the bed of coals is "just right" and then adding more 20 seconds later on any grill smaller than a sports car.

>>17795579
>>17795625
Weber salespeople get off this board.

>>17795534
Propane is easier, cleaner, and healthier. Grilling with charcoal puts carcinogens into your food via the smoke.

If total ease of use is your number one, then propane is fine, you can still make great food.

If you dont mind tending a little work before and after, you cant beat the smokey notes that charcoal gives you. Its amazing.

Plus with a simple Weber kettle you can even smoke meats.

Get yourself a charcoal chimney and you wont ever have to worry about dousing charcoal with lighter fluid either.

>>17795534
For convenience go with gas, for flavor go with charcoal or wood.

>>17796572
you strike me as a Dale Gribble type

Just get this from Walmart for $60, perfect size for you and a few friends, had mine for a few years now. Fuck propane

>>17795677
>>17795625
This is the incorrect choice. It offers no advantages over a similar mini kettle priced at like $20. If you're grilling that small, you should just use propane, the hassle of charcoal is not worth it for just a burger or two.
I actually have the Smokey Joe. Replaced with a vintage Weber Performer.

I'd probably end up using this daily if had one