Grilling or BBQ? (Topic Split)

[MarkyVasquez]

Greg your welcome at my house for dinner at anytime. If you're near Laredo in South Texas you're more than welcome to come by stay a few days, and empty your tanks and fill your belly!


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[Casita Greg]

Originally Posted by MarkyVasquez

Greg your welcome at my house for dinner at anytime. If you're near Laredo in South Texas you're more than welcome to come by stay a few days, and empty your tanks and fill your belly!


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Thank you for your kind invitation Marky. I probably won't find myself down that way any time soon, but if I do come south I would definitely look you up and have some fun cooking up some good eats with you. Thanks for the invite.

[Johnny M]

I have a grill similar to your weber and I like it too for camping. I have been grilling and smoking for over 25 years, and my favorite is the reverse flow smoker I built myself but it is too big for taking camping without a pickup truck. I have not tried smoking on my charcoal camping grill, for one reason I like to smoke boston butts and I smoke them for 14 to 16 hours with real wood not charcoal , so it is not practical for that. But I have used it to make pretty good grilled meals. My wife's favorite is a beef stew I make by lining it with charcoal in the bottom, put an aluminum disposable pan on the grill grate, 2 cups of water, stew meat, potatoes, carrots and some spices, foil the top, then set the lid on and let it cook for about 2 to 4 hours. It's a good dish for the campsite, easy to make and her and my son love it (me too). I won a Coleman portable propane camp grill and I like it too, very convenient and useful. So when I go camping I have plenty of cooking options: charcoal grill, propane grill, campfire grill grate, and propane stove

[MarkyVasquez]

Cookin a Bustin Butt on the Go-Anywhere. I only open the vents next to the fire and open the vents over the Butt. I put a few lit coals on one side of the grill and the Butt on the other side. The air flows through the coal and across the Butt then out the top vent. I cut the Butt in half. Put it in the grill and let it smoke for 3 hours. I wrap with foil and cook for another 30-45 minutes. Cook till the Butt temperature reaches 200. Shred and add BBQ sauce if you like.

[Glenn Baglo]

I bought a Napoleon grill/Q because it has two burners so I can cook 'indirect', as you describe.
What nobody has ever convinced me, is that charcoal is superior to propane.
Charcoal is used in water filters because it doesn't impart a flavour to the water, so, other than providing heat, how does it improve the BBQ?
Obviously, I use wood chips to provide smoke. Hickory chips make pretty much any meat taste like pork. I use apple or mesquite or hickory, depending on what I'm cooking.
Pic one is my Weber with four burners and a smoker burner.
Pic two is the Napoleon, with two burners. Not exactly small, but does the job.

[Glenn Baglo]

Large enough to BBQ a whole chicken.

When it comes to famous Texas and Carolina BBQ, don't they cook with wood?

[Carol and Mike]

Reading through this thread this morning has got me hungry! Some great pics. I need to go fire up the smoker....

I've got two Webers for the trailer, one propane and one charcoal. At home I use a Primo Oval for smoking and a Firemagic propane grill for grilling. The Primo (like a big green egg) is great for smoking everything from briskits to turkeys and everything in between. I'm thinking about getting a small Primo or Green Egg for the road.

My brother owns a BBQ restaurant in town. He has a smoker that can handle 20 briskits at a time!

[Mike Magee]

I don't do a lot of outdoor grilling, but one of my favorite items to grill is fish filets (tilapia or whatever) over charcoal, with soaked hickory chips thrown onto the coals for smoke. Yum.