Just ordered my first charcoal grill (pic related). Planning on grilling some ribeye; any tips?
Also, are there any must have accessories to purchase?
Just ordered my first charcoal grill (pic related). Planning on grilling some ribeye; any tips?
Leo Price
Anthony Anderson
get a charcoal chimney, wire brush, tongs, metal spatula, and some lighter fluid
Ayden Powell
Pretty much all of this except lighter fluid. Go for some tinder or something instead.
Basically, OP, get your coals really nice and hot (let them burn until they're mostly white and really glowing), then bank to one side. Get some air though them until they're super hot, then put the steak directly over them to sear- then move it to the other side and lid the grill to finish with indirect heat. And don't forget to rest that shit.
Juan Fisher
Return it and get a gas one.
Josiah Morales
Is the grate it includes capable of decent searing? I've seen some talk about people using an additional sear grate?
Nice try, Hank.
Jonathan Rogers
Basic seasoning on your ribeye, brush, tongs, spatula, you'll be fine. You'll love it in the summer. It keeps your kitchen cooler and cleaner. I grill nearly everything from spring to fall. Steak, burgers, chicken, pork chops, shrimp on a skewer. You'll love it.
Colton Davis
you fucking nigger
Landon Miller
Gas fucking sucks. I've replaced my burners on a goddamn expensive jenn air and they're failing again. The stainless shell is still good so I'm going to drill some air intake holes in the bottom and just start using charcoal.
Jace Cox
I don't mind using lighter fluid. the gas is burned off by the time you cook and if you use a charcoal chimney, you won't need the fluid.
make sure your utensils are long. those coals get fucking hot
your grate should be good for a few seasons at least
now that your a charcoal cooker, make fun of/ act superior towards anyone using propane
Isaiah Clark
These lighter cubes are an absolute must along with a chimney starter. Those items and a heavy grade set of tongs to use for moving coals and picking up the grates are literally the only things you need to get started with grilling.
Upgraded items would be a fast-read thermometer and a grate with tight spacing for small cut vegetables or asparagus
Tyler Rivera
Forgot pic
Brody Rogers
Grill some chicken hearts, yakitori style
Thomas Torres
OP here:
If I'm going to grill with wood chunks alongside coal, do I just throw the chunks on top of the coals after I dump them from the chimney?
Nathan Parker
Not even a bad idea right here. Always used charcoal back home now we have a shitter propane grill at our apartment and it struggles to get above 350 degrees
Matthew Brooks
Why not just use newspaper or cardboard? Or the charcoal bag?
Kevin Walker
Alright cu/ck/s let's settle this which is superior lump charcoal or briquettes? Personally I've been doing a mix of both but that's just because I'm a broke student. Also favorite beer while grilling on a hot summer day?
Wyatt Hernandez
Because they don't work as well and I can personally afford the $4 for these 24 cubes that burn hot and long immediately after lighting
Joshua Nguyen
after your coals are burning real good and you've placed them in their final resting spot then add your wood
Lump, beer tastes terrible
Blake Morales
Use two distinct temperature ranges on the grill. One side with coals (preferable lump charcoal) and the other with no coals. It helps with flare ups.
Gabriel Hughes
OP, don't listen to these gas-grillers. Just get a charcoal chimney, some REAL hardwood charcoal, and use some paper towels soaked in whatever grease you have handy (I recycle the paper towels I use to wipe the bacon grease off my griddle with). As long as you use 6-7 paper towels, you will never have a problem with lighting.
Yes, keep in mind if you set it directly on top of the coals, it will catch on fire and produce a lot of smoke all at once. If you set it to the side, just barely touching, you'll get a more sustained smoke.
Christian Young
>beer tastes terrible
You have defective tastebuds
Daniel Wright
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Josiah Bell
>I don't know how to stuff newspaper into the ass end of a chimney to set a flammable thing on fire.
Reassess your life.
Robert Jackson
Make your own charcoal or find a way to get real charcoal.
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Don't buy the shit from the store. It burns for like 5 minutes and all turns to ash. You need a good couple of bags for a whole BBQ.
Gavin Campbell
>Also, are there any must have accessories to purchase?
Like others said, a good grill brush is by far the most important grilling accessory so you can keep your grate clean. Give it a good sweep next time you intend to grill, after your charcoal is just about ready to use
Don't feel too bad if you burn or undercook your first couple meals, grilling can take a lot of experience to instinctively learn when meat's perfect
>Also favorite beer while grilling on a hot summer day?
Any ice cold light beer is absolutely god tier while grilling
Grayson Evans
Lump charcoal in a chimney starter. Home Depot charcoal is actually not horrible. Use a page or so of newspaper, sprayed with Pam, to get shit going. Use a decent thermometer (pyrometer) so you have a clue how you like your meat cooked, and can do it that way again whenever you want to, as well as for food safety with ground meats.
Jackson Reed
>grilling can take a lot of experience to instinctively learn when meat's perfect
This also applies to when you use / get a new grill. You end up doing the mind-meld with your grill. You learn how placing the charcoal in different areas creates different temperature zones. You lean exactly how much charcoal you will need for your cook if you keep the exhaust vents at the exact right spot. Etc.
Then you use a new grill, especially a gas one, and you wonder WTF?
Mason Wood
lighter cubes are way easier, don't have to mess with grease, don't have to use newspaper that I do not have in the first place. keep wasting your time.
Michael Taylor
I buy charcoal from walmart and home depot and it burns for 2 hours or more. WTF you buying? Even a thick steak takes only 17 minutes usually.
Carter Russell
you didn't have lighter cubes in the first place either. Newspaper is free. Lighter cubes are not.
Evan Murphy
do not use grill brushes, if you must use one that says it is resistant to breakage.
Nathaniel Perez
it is not free unless your local paper throws trash in your driveway every week. the convenience far outweighs the $3 for a pack of lighter cubes and they work everytime without grease to soak paper or any other bullshit. I'm already at the store buying lump charcoal, might as well buy lighter cubes.