Foodies BS Thread.

it's hard to beat homemade pizza - but i tell you, i get flour everywhere making the dough - and our floors an countertops are black...

 

Its great cooking when there is a serious mess going on..............

 

Especially when you're wife does the cleaning! I cook, she cleans... guess who gets the worst of that deal???

 

As stated earlier if you are doing it right..................her..............lol

 

ok. this only works for DARK meat chicken. i've tried white meat, and it is disasterous. i use thighs all perfectly sized the same to insure even cooking.

this is embarrassing easy, but it is a total crowd pleaser. fried chicken is good. fried chicken that is low fat, and smokey tasting a GREAT.

8 thighs fit on my grill. yours may vary. here is the secret: DIXIE FRY. it is next to the crappy Shake n bake at most grocery stores. i brine my chicken in cold salted water for 30 mins. get a charcoal chimney thing going. if i had to guess, i use almost a gallon of briquettes. rinse the chicken, and dust them completely with the dixie fry. set them on a rack to "gel up" a bit. then dust them again. set them back on the rack. shake off the excess dusting.

in the meantime. pour the coals even on two sides of the grill. no coals going down the middle. put a chunk of smoking wood on one of the piles of coals. clean grate and oil it or your chicken will stick. the place the thighs skin side up in a line down the middle like in my pic. close the lid. open the vent on top/bottom completely. in 15 mins, flip the chicken. if you didnt oil your grate, here is where you curse yourself. close the lid, and wait 15 mins..flip them again. they well be getting golden brown and delicious. in about 10 to 15 minutes i jab a thermometer into the chicken. if i see 180 or so, i run them into the house. effen delicious.

crunchy, hot, smokey..juicy. it will be the best. if there is a wife or girlfriend around..prepare to get lucky.

 

btw, it wont work on a propane grill. a by-product of propane burning is H20, which messes up the crunchy skin. sorry.

 

i am 99% positive i was talking about my chicken recipe and not your pizza recipe.

and yes..a by product of propane combustion is water. please dont make me post up the chemical reaction...because i cannot remember it, or how to balance a chemical equation. (remember avogadro number?)

 

you still think i am talking about grill pizza?

burning natural gas produces water also for the non reading crowd.

 

Liquid propane is just regular propane at a high pressure

the water would be water vapor, also the by products of heat and light

 

C3H8 + 5 O2 ---> 3 CO2 + 4 H2O

this is the chem reaction of the combustion of propane. cant find my chem text book to verify, but the equation balances.

about the pizza..is the pizza stone at risk of cracking? when do you place it over the coals? right away?

 

no apology necessary..!! i love this thread and what all you guys come up with. i put the chicken recipe up earlier.

 

That is the right reaction, there are also by products of Heat and Light that are not accounted for (any gas reaction will produce water VAPOR as a by product along with CO2)

 

remind me..how does CO (carbon monoxide) form? incomplete combustion? i friggen cannot remember. argh, getting old sucks. i searched my office and cannot find a chemistry book. i dont trust WIKI either..

 

you may be right..i cant remember either.

"douchebaggery"..too funny. i almost looked this word up in my dictionary..until i sounded it out..hahahah..i thought it was an official word! awesome.

 

CO is made form a incomplete reaction where there is not enough oxygen present

http://www.chemguide.co.uk/organicprops/alkanes/oxygen.html

 

you always have to put the pizza stone in a cold oven/bbq and let it heat up with the oven/bbq, or it's prone to cracking...

 

ya you have to be careful how you treat them... no soap and water!

 

where did you get your stone from, I would like to pick one up someday.

 

you can get them at all kinds of stores or online... i've even seen people use teracotta tiles as a substitute

http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias=aps&field-keywords=pizza+stone