# BBQ Smoke Gets In Your Eyes **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Tags:** food-cooking\ **Created:** [March 4, 2021, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bbq-smoke-gets-in-your-eyes/937133 "2021-03-04T01:24:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![solost](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/solost/32/11776_2.png) [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2021, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bbq-smoke-gets-in-your-eyes/937133/21 "2021-03-05T21:57:48Z")
> [@Riemann](#): > > > [@solost](#): > > > > My apologies- I know the rule in GQ is not to make a joke response until after there have been several serious replies > > I must confess, somehow I didn’t notice it was in GQ, I assumed the OP was tongue-in-cheek. Yeah, now that you mention it, I sort of got that impression too. And a lot of times I get to posts by checking out ‘newest’ without noticing the category at first, so it had kind of a MPSIMS vibe. And the OP just admitted he was half-jesting, so I don’t feel that bad about my somewhat flippant answer after all. So there. But I do admire the valiant attempts to give the OP a serious answer! ---
**Author:** ![Riemann](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/riemann/32/3133_2.png) [@Riemann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Riemann)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2021, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bbq-smoke-gets-in-your-eyes/937133/22 "2021-03-05T22:03:25Z")
> [@Rix29](#): > > Well, d’uh. It sorta was. And sorta wasn’t. You know? Yeah, nothing wrong with the OP, no criticism intended. As @solost mentioned we have a rule that in GQ you’re supposed to wait until a good attempt has been made to give serious answers before joking around, so we were just apologizing for that. ---
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2021, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bbq-smoke-gets-in-your-eyes/937133/23 "2021-03-05T22:12:38Z")
Maybe some peoples eyes are more sensitive? Bc, I can’t remember this ever being a problem for me. I’ve had issues where there is too much smoke hovering above the grill making it difficult to see what I’m doing, but have never as far as I recall experienced discomfort due to smoke being in my eyes. ---
**Author:** ![solost](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/solost/32/11776_2.png) [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2021, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bbq-smoke-gets-in-your-eyes/937133/24 "2021-03-05T22:13:50Z")
If you want a serious answer, probably 99.97% @What_Exit saying ‘confirmation bias’. You remember what bothers you, not what doesn’t bother you. And maybe .03% air pressure vectors or whatever that argument was. @Riemann, I’m sorry to say I overlooked your post until I just now re-skimmed this thread. It’s far more witty and subtle than my flippant answer 👍 ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2021, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bbq-smoke-gets-in-your-eyes/937133/25 "2021-03-06T20:23:34Z")
We have a BBQ place downtown where the smoker is right out front on the sidewalk by the curb. I always smell BBQ cooking when I drive by, so there must be an applicable law to explain it. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bbq-smoke-gets-in-your-eyes/937133.md?page=1)