BBQ Ribs!

[Lancer]

Really? Once upon a time Chicago was renouned for good beef. Half the nations beef went through there.

[SpencerH]

Grilling is the cooking method which can be fast, slow, or in between. It simply refers to cooking over a direct heat source with no pans ie just the grill. Smoking is using an indirect heat source (and smoke). BBQ is the sauce (which I dont do, I just use a rub).

[Lord Avalon]

I thought BBQ was using indirect heat: you have the coals around the edges of your grill and put the meat in the middle. Since it's slow, periodically you have to add new charcoal.

[Zkribbler]

Originally posted by SlowwHand
Grilling is grilling. Also good, but not the same thing.

All BBQ is grilling. But not all grilling is BBQ.

[SlowwHand]

No. A pit is not a grill, as a for instance.

[Zkribbler]

A quick check of TexaxBarbeques.com shows that Sloww is right.

When most people today think barbeque, what they really are refering to is grilling. They might be thinking of a big juicy steak or a hamburger, which are usually "grilled"(cooked quickly and directly over open flames). But Barbeque is actually the act of slow-cooking food in pits over indirect heat, using burning charcoal or wood as the primary heat source.

[Lord Avalon]

Originally posted by Zkribbler
A quick check of TexaxBarbeques.com shows that Sloww is right.

OMGWTFBBQPIT!!!

Score one for Sloww!

[Japher]

he is from Texas

if he didn't know the difference between bbq and grilling he would be shot

[Kidlicious]

But TexaxBarbeques.com is really in NYC.

[Japher]

This is mine, though I have a smoke box on the side

I would like a larger one, perhaps one that needs to be towed by a car

[Lord Avalon]

[Zkribbler]

Originally posted by SpencerH
I dont BBQ. I just grill em slow (~1.5 hrs for 3 slabs) with a simple rub of garlic and onion powders, pepper, kosher salt, and paprika.

Q from a goy:
WTF is kosher salt?? How can salt not be kosher?

[Imran Siddiqui]

Originally posted by Zkribbler
Q from a goy:
WTF is kosher salt?? How can salt not be kosher?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kosher_salt

It isn't just for Joos anymore . It's a bigger grain than table salt (and isn't iodized) and the kind of salt I normally use (well, when I'm not using 'Fleur de sel', but I save that).

[Kidlicious]

Originally posted by Japher


This is mine, though I have a smoke box on the side

I would like a larger one, perhaps one that needs to be towed by a car

OMG California boy. A BBQ needs a truck to tow it.

[Zkribbler]

Ahh, as usual, Wikipedia has the answer. Thanx, Imran.

Kosher salt gets its name not because it follows the guidelines for kosher foods as written in the Torah (nearly all salt is kosher, including ordinary table salt), but rather because of its use in making meats kosher, by helping to extract the blood from the meat. Because kosher salt grains are larger than regular table salt grains, when meats are coated in kosher salt the salt does not dissolve readily; the salt remains on the surface of the meat longer, allowing fluids to leach out of the meat.