Is a gas BBQ cheating?

[Mark]

BBQ and blindfolds? That sounds dangerous!

Although I voted for the traditional version, I'm sure I'd be very happy with the results from either, but then I wouldn't be the one doing the cooking.

[bam]

Originally Posted by Danny

TBH I have my 'outdoor grill' BBQs in exactly the same manner as you have described. Literally no different. I'm still preparing food throughout and having a beer as guests arrive. Actually I lie my mrs prepares everything thats not meat or going on the meat while I socialise.

Although I'm pretty organised though and all my homemade dips, sauces and marinades/rubs and even the burgers have to be prepared the night before. It would too long to make 50 odd homemade burgers on the fly.

Calling a gas BBQ an "outdoor grill" is disingenuous anyway like you've said you don't cook directly on the gas. Charcoal radiating heat/lava rocks radiating heat, it makes no difference to how the food tastes in the slightest. It's just as smoky and I still get plenty of flames from the fat burning itself if I'm not careful.