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All up in your grill: Sun-cooked (This going green stuff has gone too far)
Mothe Nature Network ^ | Jul 09 2009 | Matt Hickman

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.



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I did a search for grills and came across this gem. Actually I was just looking for a grill that I could set up over some rocks for my bug-out gear.

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:


1 posted on 07/10/2009 4:43:04 AM PDT by appleseed
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To: appleseed

Oh,yeah, the old shopping cart grill trick.


2 posted on 07/10/2009 4:44:26 AM PDT by calex59
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To: Momaw Nadon; Mrs. Ranger; Squantos; wafflehouse; pbmaltzman; WKUHilltopper; dusttoyou; PLMerite; ...

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3 posted on 07/10/2009 4:46:28 AM PDT by appleseed
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Hey Greenies, do us all a favor: Stop eating and stop breathing altogether. The planet's problems will be over (as far as you know)!
4 posted on 07/10/2009 4:46:44 AM PDT by Jagman (You comport, We deride!)
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To: appleseed

I tried a Burger King veggie-burger once ... tasted terrible ... even with cheese and bacon.


5 posted on 07/10/2009 4:46:52 AM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: calex59

It’s even got that handy bun-warming rack.


6 posted on 07/10/2009 4:47:42 AM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: appleseed

7 posted on 07/10/2009 4:50:44 AM PDT by cranked
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To: appleseed

Oh, and if you forget to fold it up after use it will conveniently set your neighbor’s deck on fire.


8 posted on 07/10/2009 4:50:58 AM PDT by Jagman (You comport, We deride!)
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To: appleseed

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.


9 posted on 07/10/2009 4:53:17 AM PDT by cripplecreek (The poor bastards have us surrounded.)
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Awesome. My favorite IGD (improvised grilling device) is an old steel wheel. Bolt pattern looks Ford to me, but it may not matter.


10 posted on 07/10/2009 4:54:27 AM PDT by Made In The USA (BO stinks.)
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To: appleseed

Oh oh. The guy has a PLASTIC chair. Our Mother will get him for that.


11 posted on 07/10/2009 4:55:26 AM PDT by DManA
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To: appleseed

...from my cold, dead, barbecue sauce covered hands.


12 posted on 07/10/2009 4:58:27 AM PDT by Washi
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He has a LEATHER belt and LEATHER shoes. I’m reporting him to PETA.


13 posted on 07/10/2009 4:58:33 AM PDT by Drango (A liberal's compassion is limited only by the size of someone else's wallet.)
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Taking away B-B-Q's is the ONLY way that stupid people will WAKE UP finally!!

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,

14 posted on 07/10/2009 4:59:25 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion....the Human Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: appleseed
Who needs to cook it?
15 posted on 07/10/2009 5:02:16 AM PDT by from occupied ga (Your most dangerous enemy is your own government,)
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To: Made In The USA

“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.


16 posted on 07/10/2009 5:06:11 AM PDT by snoringbear (Government is the Pimp,)
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I also see a hose and a suspiciously green lawn. No xeriscaping is a violation too.


17 posted on 07/10/2009 5:07:13 AM PDT by DManA
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Oh, and if you forget to fold it up after use it will conveniently set your neighbor’s deck on fire.

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.

18 posted on 07/10/2009 5:07:42 AM PDT by DYngbld (I have read the back of the Book and we WIN!!!!)
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To: cripplecreek
"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."

I used to do a lot of solar grilling as a kid, but I always over-cooked the ants.

19 posted on 07/10/2009 5:08:37 AM PDT by HangThemHigh (Entropy's not what it used to be.)
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To: cranked

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.


20 posted on 07/10/2009 5:13:57 AM PDT by Hatteras
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