Cooking Utensils Review

Just a thought.Barbecued foods are great. Gas barbecue grills are convenient, put propane and gas are not renewable energy sources (I was remined by Time magazine article on grilling). They also impart no flavor. I will use soaked hardwood chips to overcome this and this helps to give rich woodie smoke flavor but… Natural lump charcoal or better yet, dried hardwood burns hot and clean and makes food taste as if it was cooked outdoors over a camp fire.

Of course briquettes loaded with chemicals and lighter fluid can produce 100 times as much carbon monoxide as propane does. They also give food a nasty napalm-like flavor.

When I lived in Mexico for a few years and was running around with Mexican film crews doing a few movies, when I had down time at my house, my landlord would get his half drum converted barbecue grill and take Mesquite hardwood charcoal (really dried Mesquite tree pieces lightly charred) and light them and get them to red coals, put the top grill on, pull out the barbecue grill  accessories and cook the carne asada and chorizo(this sausage is naturally made without all sorts of carcinogen preservatives). It was delicious. You can get Mesquite charcoal from some hardware chains, barbecue specialty stores and certainly Mexican food markets. It is wonderful. If you can’t get this then soak Mesquite wood chips and sprinkle them over your hardwood charcoal when is is almost ready to cook. Get out your barbecue, barbecue tools and favorite meats and vegies and cook away. Enjoy!