Posted on 07/10/2009 4:43:04 AM PDT by appleseed
No matter how you approach it, summer grilling is a lose-lose situation for Mother Nature.
Are you cookin’ veggie burgers over natural, low-impact lump charcoal that you fired up with a chimney starter? You’re still also cookin' up an ample amount of air pollution.
Are you serving local veggie kabobs expertly grilled over a gas-powered flame? You’re generating less sooty particles but that gas, as you’re probably aware, is a nonrenewable resource.
What about that free-range chicken cooked over an electric grill? If it's plugged in, you're generating greenhouse gases there, too.
If you gotta grill, you gotta grill (but please, hold the lighter fluid). But let’s say you truly strive for eco-perfection and you're a backyard cooking fanatic. Tough one. That is, unless you have a sunny, cloudless sky, plenty of patience, a thermometer, and a solar oven.
Veggie burgers, veggie kabobs, nonrenewable resource and greenhouse gasses from a grill? Holy crap. I can't imagine hiredhand using that satellite dish looking thing to cook a rack of ribs.
I reckon I'll just stick with what I have now:
Oh,yeah, the old shopping cart grill trick.
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I tried a Burger King veggie-burger once ... tasted terrible ... even with cheese and bacon.
It’s even got that handy bun-warming rack.
Oh, and if you forget to fold it up after use it will conveniently set your neighbor’s deck on fire.
The solar grilling idea has been around for a few decades. I wouldn’t mind trying it but don’t think I would want to rely on it.
Awesome. My favorite IGD (improvised grilling device) is an old steel wheel. Bolt pattern looks Ford to me, but it may not matter.
Oh oh. The guy has a PLASTIC chair. Our Mother will get him for that.
...from my cold, dead, barbecue sauce covered hands.
He has a LEATHER belt and LEATHER shoes. I’m reporting him to PETA.
They dont care about anything else, not their children's future TAX BURDEN, not having to buy little tiny green cars, Democrats RUINING our military by having OPENLY GAY people serving.....etc,
“Awesome. My favorite IGD (improvised grilling device) is an old steel wheel. Bolt pattern looks Ford to me, but it may not matter.”
Yeah, and one can always wrap a couple of dogs in aluminum foil and lay them on the engine block so to heat while driving down the road. Of course, with today’s cars, getting by all the plastic shrouding makes finding an open spot on the block somewhat of a challenge. Also, there’s the old depression era auto accessory that could be bolted to the rear bumper and was heated by the exhaust, could cook up a pot of stew with that one. I think I actually saw a reproduction of this add somewhere, originally ran in Popular Mechanic I believe.
I also see a hose and a suspiciously green lawn. No xeriscaping is a violation too.
hmmmm, if you could redirect the beam and focus it some, I see one heck of a death ray. Provided you get attacked in the middle of the afternoon on a sunny day.
I used to do a lot of solar grilling as a kid, but I always over-cooked the ants.
Hanging with my surf buds at the beach in my younger, carefree days, we used to “borrow” cans of teenie weenies, beans and other assorted mini-mart fare from the local Stop-N-Go and would heat them up on the engine of my jeep for a delicious warm meal. No muss, no fuss.
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