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Anyone use these grills?
Nighthawk
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I bought a Henry Hickory smoker charcoal grill last summer just to give it a try. After some trial and error I got it down. They cook very slow and have a temp gauge on the lid so you know if your not cooking hot enough or too hot. I love it we get bonless chicken breast and paste them in barbaque sause and lay them on the grill. and usually just have to turn them once, then paste them again. You can buy hickory bark to put in a small inclosed section just above the charcoal so it gets hot enough to smoke a while before it burns up. If I need to I will stuff it full of bark again. I get my own hickory bark and keep it smoking the whole time. The down side is dont use it if your hungry it takes about 40 minutes to get the chicken done and it takes about one bag of charcoal. It sure fixes food better than my gas grill. Anyone else use one of these? What do you think of it?
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Charcoal is always better than gas...thats what I think.
Propane is much better. Taste the meat, not the heat as they say in SF.
But then again my buddy Hank sells propane and propane accesories.
First time for charcoal in almost 30 years.
Won't be going back to gas.
Doug
I love my Traeger pellet grill, not quite as fast as propane but the wood flavor is just like charcoal. I liked it so well I started selling them. You can get a bunch of different wood pellets, for a little different flavor. No flare ups and the meat comes out so juicy you darn near need a bib when you eat. The heat is circulated like a convection oven so you don't even have to turn the meat when cooking. Try one!
+1 love my pellet grill.
Thank you.
Doug
I'm firing this bad boy up tomorrow with couple of hickory logs and a nice pork shoulder.
mmmm
Now those are what I call a grill.But Im saving my money for thr big Flee markets coming up. Ive only got a Gas grill at the cabin, I would like to have a Hickory smoker over there too.
{buy the wife a new one first or buy a cheap one trust me on this}
I got charcoal, smoker, and gas. Any one of them beats hell out of an indoor stove. Use the hell out of them all, depending on time, conditions and circumstance.
+100
I'm firing this bad boy up tomorrow with couple of hickory logs and a nice pork shoulder.
mmmm
Got 1 parked out back, don't/ won't use anything but.
Gas makes water vapor as it burns, and tastes lust like the "FART SMELL" they put in the gas, so u can smell a leak. USELESS for cookin'!![xx(]
I'm firing this bad boy up tomorrow with couple of hickory logs and a nice pork shoulder.
mmmm
I got gas, well it's actually the wife's, but.........
My best bud, lives across the road has one very similar to that. 1/2 gas. 1/2 charcoal with a smoker box on the end. Any luck tomorrow morning and we'll be having grilled tenderloin, smoked fresh salmon and venison mushroom&swiss brats for dinner![}:)][:p][:D]
Chiminey style charcoal starter works like a dream. A couple pages of newspaper and coals are burning like an afterburner on a jet in 10-15 minutes.
I had a grill just like that one. The silver smoker by charbroil i believe. I smoked ribs, brisket, pork shoulder and used it a couple times a week to make chicken breast while i was trying to lose weight. I loved that grill. Left it outside, uncovered for 4 years...sanded it down and repainted it and still works perfectly. Looks like it's been through hell..but cooks like a champ.
Chiminey style charcoal starter works like a dream. A couple pages of newspaper and coals are burning like an afterburner on a jet in 10-15 minutes.
I use the chimney starter and paper curls from the shredder, only takes a handful. Hardwood lump charcoal is also 1000 times better than that kingsford stuff. I'll have hot coals in 5 minutes. This weekend we did a shoulder all day ,lit some charcoal and put it in the firebox, then put the meat on the far end. Put it on about 10am and adjusted the heat to about 225?F. Once the coals started to die down I gave it a hickory log and a little more charcoal, that kept it going till Supper time. Came out perfect.
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