Thursday, 28 May 2009
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How Well Do You Know Your Barbecue?
In honor of the warm months and approaching summer, many of us will be dusting off our grills and firing them up. However, what many people call a "barbecue" in reference to the cooking of food on a grill outdoors is, in fact, incorrect terminology! To elaborate on these crucial concepts, let us define and clarify the difference between the two.
Barbecue: To barbecue is to prepare food in a long/slow cooking manner over wood coals. Furthermore, it is not the device that you cook on nor is it a sauce.
Grilling: To grill is to cook over high heat in a short amount of time. Furthermore, it does not matter what heat source you use to cook.
Click here to read about one man's quest to find the best barbecue in Texas. He's been to 168 places so far!
Where do you think is the best place to get some BBQ? Did you know the difference between BBQ and grilling? Now that you do, will you change the way you refer to your cook-outs?
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I'm not like BBQ! because too hot and waste time.
i like bbq-ing food but not eating it because.. way too much carcinogenic stuffs there..
We love to grill. We call a grilling get together a BBQ. ; P
Arthur Bryant's BBQ in KCMO is the Best place to get some great bbq.
great atmosphere, great people, great food.
you ask for a sandwich, they give you a plate full of meat, and half a loaf of bread.
...makes me hungry AND miss home. daaang.
@jocadychoi@xanga - yeah well... of all the things you could be worrying about, I'm glad you're worrying about smoke in your food.
If you research it, there are ways to cut down on carcinogens in food caused by smoke.
@candyhearts13@xanga - haha i know, it's actually not the smoke, you see. it's the charring of the food itself that's carcinogenic. come to think of it, the danger of the smoke didn't occur to me at all because i'll always be standing against wind direction lol. anyhow, one way of stopping at least 70% of carcinogens being formed is to break a vit e capsule over it but.. too much work. i don't eat non-organic meat most of the time anyway so yea haha.
@jocadychoi@xanga - lol that's fair, in all aspects. lol
psh, semantics... if enough people believe that the definition of a barbecue is grilling food in the backyard, or the thing you cook on, or a certain type of sauce, then that's what the definition is. sorry. meanings change over time.
I've heard that the more seemingly grungy a barbecue place looks, and the smaller the town or the poorer side of a city it's located, the better the food.
2008 Merriam-Webster dictionary
grilling:
1. to broil on a grill
2. to fry or toast on a griddle
grill:
1. a cooking utensil of parallel bars on which food is exposed to heat (as from charcoal or electricity)
2.food that is broiled usually on a grill
barbeque:
2. a social gathering where barbequed food is eaten
barbequed:
1. to roast or broil on a rack or revolving spit over or before a source of heat
SO WHAT WAS WRONG WITH CALLING IT GRILLING OR BARBEQUING AGAIN???
BBQ are a treat for us, cant remember the last time we had one, all to do with the weather.