# Charcoal Grills **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** food-cooking\ **Created:** [April 28, 2024, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/charcoal-grills/1000877 "2024-04-28T20:06:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 24
**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:** [April 29, 2024, 1:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/charcoal-grills/1000877/24 "2024-04-29T13:13:18Z")
> [@Gatopescado](#): > > Charcoal is great when you got one tiny thing to grill, two hours to kill and lots of beer to drink waiting for the perfect 10 minutes of heat to do the job. > > Fuck that! Drink for an hour and a half, fire up the gas grill, let it get good and hot, cook a few pounds of beef, chicken and pork all at different temps and times and party on! > > Don’t believe me? Ask Hank Hill. As Wynonna Judd said to Hank Hill in the episode ‘Peggy’s Fan Fair’: “I was raised on charcoal. I’ll die on charcoal. So back off!” 😃 I will add to the recs of a classic 22" Weber Kettle grill. Gas grills are nothing but outdoor stovetops. A kettle-style charcoal grill is very versatile. Besides simple grilling, you can arrange charcoal so that there’s indirect heat, mix in wood chunks with the charcoal, and slow-smoke meats. It’s a little trickier to get even low heat than say, a Weber Smoky Mountain bullet-style smoker, which I also own, but I’ve [barbecued a whole beef brisket on my Weber kettle grill](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/barbecued-beef-brisket/965672) with outstanding results. I even bought a pizza oven insert for my kettle grill and made some damn fine pizza. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/charcoal-grills/1000877)._