Favorite way to start a barbecue

[plainpainter 217]

I'll start off and say outright that I don't like gas cookers for barbecuing - I always found myself going back to charcoal weber cookers. Years ago at the hardware store they had fire starter for barbecues and on the opposite side of the aisle they had mineral spirits/paint thinner. They looked like the same bottle and when I turned them around they had the labeling for the opposite product. That's when I knew that fire starter was just overpriced mineral spirits.

But I like to keep it 'natural' and now I start my barbecues with turpentine - burns great. I don't even use grossman's charcoals - I use those real wood blackened charcoals - looks like it came right off a partially burned/blackened branch or something. It smokes like crazy when I am cooking - I love it - best steaks, hamburgers, and ribs in the world.

Tonight I am grilling tuna steaks I got from the local fish distributor right on the shore.

[DAVID V 22]

I use that little clicking thingy on my gas grill.

[Camelot 68]

I use that little clicking thingy on my gas grill.

LOL...me too...

[bigchaz 157]

Grill?

[Scott Stone 604]

It all depends on what I am cooking. I will use gas with wood chips if I want a wood flavor. Sometimes, it is just gas, because that is what my wife prefers. When I am smoking something, I will use briquettes and wood.

[Beth n Rod 1,279]

We have a gas grill. I have been known to use a smoker box with either hickory or mesquite chips on occasion.

I love to cook beer can chicken! Better than rotisserie cooking!

Beth