Posted on 07/21/2006 5:56:55 AM PDT by CT-Freeper
I am an oddball, I have always felt electricity to be more he-man stuff than fire, because fire usually can't kill you with a touch.
Ha! I was chopping onions for simmering hotdogs in beer around noon on a saturday, something exciting just appeared on the tv so I looked up and sliced my finger - not really bad, but good enough that there was blood running freely. My teenager and his buddy were on the sofa, so I said I cut off the tip of my thumb as I held up my bloody hand. Then I sliced the tip of a hotdog, smeared it with the blood and threw it at them.
It landed in one of their laps and they just froze, motionless. Another good laugh for the old man.
Just keep it clean, please; no obscene or propane puns, though rare, will be tolerated and violators will be skewered.
I'm a charcoal grill guy myself. I grill almost year round. I was out on the deck with a winter coat on in february, grilling up a storm. I love grilling, chilling out on the deck. It's nirvana. Gas grills? I guess it's convenient, but I like my charcoal smoker/grill.
OTOH, at the Wouldnt household, I, the wifey, had no choice but to take to the grill. Mr. Wouldnt's work hours got him home late and there was always some chore, such as mowing the huge yard, that had to be done.
If we waited for Mr. Wouldnt to have time to grill, we'd be eating boiled hotdogs for months on end.
Not acceptable. So I finally got up the courage to approach the fire (after DH, of course, started the grill and assured me it was okay to go near it). Over time, he would mow and I would grill.
Now no one can get me away from the thing. I finally learned how to turn it on myself and began grilling any and everything that can be grilled. DH is glad to sit down to a nice grillteller on the deck after a long day's office work followed by a couple hours of manual labor. I even let him eat while he's still sweaty and dirty, if he wants to. :-)
It does figure that in Connecticutt, gas grills are considered manly.
I like to put a half filled capped plastic bottle of gasoline in the fire to really get things going.
Who needs fireworks!
Sax, you ain't right neither! Where do you guys think up this sh!t????
But it's damn funny though!
I'm an equal opportunity jokester.
"Born to Barbecue" apron and announces to no one in particular, "OK, let's do some grillin'!!"
Sounds like "Effin" Kerry: "Can I get me a huntin' license here?"
I have one of these bad boys. I like it a lot:
http://www.chargriller.com/
I haven't tried baking a cake on a grill either, what I do is put some sliced fresh fruit, brown sugar, butter, some lemon and/or lime juice and spice (one or more of: fresh ground allspice, cinnamon, nutmeg, fresh ground cardamom) on a double wrap of heavy duty foil and toss it on the grill when the meat is done. When you are ready for dessert, spoon the fruit (still hot) over vanilla ice cream.
Mine's the super pro:
http://www.chargriller.com/shop/grills/super-pro.html
Real men use hardwood.
http://www.primogrill.com/
Reminds me of something when I was a preteen. My dad burned garbage in a steel 55 gallon barrel. One day, when he wasn't looking, we threw a can of mom's hairspray in the fire. Looking back, it's a good thing he wasn't standing close when it went off. He did have to change his underwear though.
Dangit...ya'll are makin me hungry!!!!
Even if everybody else here thinks you two are a pain in the ash, I think you're both pretty coal, and always try to stay on the lighter side of things. Although I'm just a minor, amateur annoyance, I really do try to emulate big time pro pains like you two.
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