slo’s FRIDAY 8/25 poll - Your Grill

[slo]

It’s Friday….which means many of us may be using a grill this weekend.
Which leads me to ask…..

Do you own a grill? (outside grill)
If yes….is it charcoal or gas?
Do you use it all year or only warm weather months?
(multiple choice)

*If anyone would like to share what they cook on the grill or recipes they use, that would be great.


For Me…..We do own a grill and it’s a gas grill.
We use the grill all year - even when there’s snow on the ground.

 

[Kitty 34]

DH has a small charcoal grill which we used once this summer when one of our sons and family came to visit. We don't have a gas grill anymore.

 

[WDWEPCOT]

I have a grill - it has gas or charcoal I never use it it’s a pain in the butt because my backyards like the surface of the sun and it’s just too much to use it if it was shaded I would use it because I enjoy grilling

 

[leebee]

Ours is a gas grill. I prefer charcoal, but gas is faster to prep and easier to clean up from (I mean the grill itself, not the food). In the summer, we use the grill almost exclusively, probably 5 days a week. Protein goes on the grill, we throw together a salad, and voila! Dinner! When we have more time or are feeling more adventurous, veggies go out on the grill, too, usually with fast brushing of olive oil and a sprinkle of herbs or seasoning blends, then salt and pepper. We even put potatoes on the grill; we throw them in the microwave to "bake," then split them, brush with olive oil, and finish them off on the grill to give them some pretty char lines and a bit of extra flavor.

 

[MIGrandma]

We have a gas grill on our deck at home, only gets used a few times in the summer.

At our property up north we have a gas grill, a pellet grill/smoker, and a Blackstone grill. They all get used several times during the summer. We use them for burgers and hot dogs, pancakes, eggs and sausage, veggies, pork loin, brats, pineapple, even things like smoking eggs in the shell.

 

[Meriweather]

We have a gas grill on the patio. It is used all year, but only when grilling with more than the 2 of us.
If it's just us I use the indoor grill

 

[fla4fun]

We used to have a gas grill, but we never used it. If it counts, I have a George Foreman grill (the one with the removable plates that go in the dishwasher) and that gets used occasionally.

 

[luvmarypoppins]

We love our grill. We are on our 2nd free one. When Dh meets a certain work anniversary they send you a catalog to pick a gift.
It’s delivered to the house but we have to assemble it.

 

[EACarlson]

I have a gas grill, it get's used in more than just the warm weather months but not year round. I'll use it into about December, usually brats for football games. If the snow isn't too deep I will grill for the Super Bowl and then it gets put away until April.

 

[Wood Nymph]

We have a gas grill which is used approximately half the year. We don't use it when it gets below 50 degrees.

 

[Praying Colonel]

We moved and I had this big notion of getting a Weber Kettle grill and doing all kinds of cool things on it.

I ended up cooking burgers and kebabs a few times and sold it. Gas is just easier.

 

[RedAngie]

We have a gas grill just off the back deck. It’s used about once per week, spring thru fall, maybe into November.

 

[wenrob]

Our grill is gas/charcoal and we have a wood chip smoker. DH only uses gas when he’s in a hurry. Both get used year round at least once a week.

 

[Dan Murphy]

Natural gas Weber on the patio. Used to use often, rarely use now.

Thanks for another great @slo poll week, Sandy. Enjoy our much cooler weekend after setting records the past few days.

 

[ronandannette]

Practically all Canadians call what you call a grill a BBQ - although I realize that to “y’all”, that term refers to a particular type of cuisine.

We’ve got a propane BBQ - not sure if you want to count that the same as gas; it requires being hooked up to a 5 gallon refillable tank rather than a permanent gas line. We use it quite a bit for 3 seasons, but during the winter when it can regularly be -20 or below, it’s just too hard to keep it up to temperature efficiently.

We’re moving to an apartment condo soon and some of them don’t permit BBQ’s on the balcony but happily, ours does. We would sorely miss not having one. The new place actually has a built-in gas hook up so there may be a point where we replace our current unit.

 

[Moliphino]

We don't have a grill yet. We still go over to our parents' house for dinner most of the time and they have a gas grill, so any grilling happens there.

 

[BorderTenny]

Other. Can't have a grill in our current condo. Closing on a home (hopefully) next week, and one of our first purchases will be a pellet grill.

 

[_19disnA]

Have a propane gas grill we use every so often. It is a pain to have to run outside every 5 minutes to make sure the food is cooking and not burning. Mostly seems good for things you cook quickly on a high heat. The BBQ's made from stainless steel last longer and generally are easier to clean. The various ones we have owned over the years seem to get way too hot even at the lowest setting or when trying to do indirect cooking on something that takes more then a few minutes to cook. Many seem poorly designed by someone who never did any grilling...........LOL. One model had a poorly placed drip tray that never caught anything and it mostly ended up in the bottom of the BBQ or on the ground. The rotisserie feature seems like a good idea, but the vertical burner was too sensitive to wind and would blow out anytime it was windy. If you turned the rotisserie burner up higher, then the food would char/burn before cooking completely. Cooking something like whole chickens on the rotisserie can take 2 hrs so you also use a LOT of propane.

Tried using wood chips one time for a smokey flavor and it left this awful oily/greasy residue inside the BBQ that was very hard to clean...........never did that again !!!

 

[mumto3girls]

We have a gas grill on our deck that we use all year long although definitely more in the summer.

 

[BlueStarryHat]

No grill for us, and I don't think we'd use it if we had one.