BBQ vs Grilling

[monkeyboy]

So what do you call it?

I use gas and I grill!

 

[Mrs. Darcy]

If I cook outside, I call it BBQ, even though it's really only grilling.

 

[disneyfreakk]

BBQ is done with wood and BBQ sauce. Grilling is done with gas.

 

[dizluvah]

imho bbq involves wood chips/smoke (low temp and slow cooking)

grilling is either charcoal or gas - no wood.smoke involved

but whether we are grilling or bbq'ing - we call the activity having a bbq

 

[ncmickeyluvr]

Growing up in Massachusetts, anytime you cooked food outdoors, it was a BBQ.

Now I live in NC and I grill. BBQ is pulled pork

 

[Squirlz]

If you're using gas you might as well be broiling in the oven. Charcoal is the only way to grill!

 

[tar heel]

Barbecue is a noun in North Carolina. Grill can be a noun (thing you cook on outdoors) or a verb (the processing of cooking outdoors on the grill).

 

[Handbag Lady]

BBQ is slow cooking over a fire for a long, long time. It does not have to have actual BBQ sauce. The better artists don't need it.

Grilling is cooking outdoors to prepare a meal which, in relation to BBQ, is rather quick.

 

[Handbag Lady]

If you're using gas you might as well be broiling in the oven. Charcoal is the only way to grill!

Oak, actually, is the only way to go.

 

[mhsjax]

If you're using gas you might as well be broiling in the oven. Charcoal is the only way to grill!

You got that right.

 

[mhsjax]

Oak, actually, is the only way to go.

I didn't think ya'll knew so much about BBQ in SoCal.

 

[BillSears]

I grill. I don't have a smoker so I can't BBQ.

 

[bicker]

THIS:

BBQ is slow cooking over a fire for a long, long time. It does not have to have actual BBQ sauce.

Nor does it require (specifically) a smoker.

Grilling is cooking outdoors to prepare a meal which, in relation to BBQ, is rather quick.

 

[Mrs. Charming]

You're all making me very hungry!

 

[chuckml]

If you're using gas you might as well be broiling in the oven. Charcoal is the only way to grill!

This

 

[KristaTX]

Barbecue is a noun in North Carolina. Grill can be a noun (thing you cook on outdoors) or a verb (the processing of cooking outdoors on the grill).

Here barbecue/bbq is also typically a noun, or it might be an adjective if it ends in -'d or -ed. I rarely if ever hear anyone around here call the cooking device "the barbecue". I only ever hear that on HGTV . If the term is used to refer to the cooking device here (which usually is just called "the grill" or the "gas grill"), then it's still an adjective and it is the "barbecue grill" or "barbecue pit".

Also here, the food is usually beef or chicken, and not pork. Except for ribs. I am noticing pulled pork sandwiches on menus more often, though.

 

[tlbwriter]

If you're using gas you might as well be broiling in the oven. Charcoal is the only way to grill!

This! Grilling is done outside over charcoal. BBQ involves a specific sauce or rub.

 

[luvsJack]

We BBQ. We use a charcoal grill to cook the meat on and we put a few wood chips in with the charcoal.

Chicken, ribs, steaks, burgers: all can be barbaqued. All cooked with sauce.

At some of the "BBQ" resteraunts they serve smoked meats with sauce added after it is cooked. That is NOT what we consider BBQ.


Older ds gets home next week, I think we will be having a family BBQ next weekend. YUMMY!!!

 

[Praying Colonel]

Where I come from, BBQ has nothing to do with sauce or rub. BBQ is low, slow cooking for a relatively long period of time with wood/smoke. Grilling is direct, moderate-to-high heat which takes a relatively short period of time.

This link has a pretty good discussion of it, IMHO:

http://bbq.netrelief.com/what_is_barbecue.shtml

 

[corndog]

cooking out