# Do you BBQ in the winter?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-bbq-in-the-winter/394588
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion
**Created:** [March 4, 2007, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-bbq-in-the-winter/394588 "2007-03-04T22:41:15Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Bobotheoptimist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bobotheoptimist)
#### Post date: [March 5, 2007, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-bbq-in-the-winter/394588/21 "2007-03-05T02:09:22Z")
Yup - Blizzards, sub-zero temps, rain. I’ve had to hunch over the food to keep the water off.
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### Author:  [@Mesquite-oh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mesquite-oh)
#### Post date: [March 5, 2007, 6:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-bbq-in-the-winter/394588/22 "2007-03-05T06:35:36Z")
I guess I am in the minority, I don’t grill or BBQ much in the winter.
In the spring and summer I grill 1 or 2x a week and BBQ about 1 to 2x per month. During the warmer months I grill much more b/c the sun stays out later, we get more visitors, the neighbors are out and about, and I simply get more requests from the family for grilled stuff.
In the winter time I only fire up Georgia for grilling around Thanksgiving and Christmas when I am off work and have visitors. I do more kitchen heatin’ cast iron cooking in the winter and no one complains. They know that grilling season isn’t that far off.
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### Author:  [@Cunctator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cunctator)
#### Post date: [March 5, 2007, 6:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-bbq-in-the-winter/394588/23 "2007-03-05T06:41:06Z")
Yes. It never gets cold enough here in winter to be a problem.
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### Author:  [@Trunk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trunk)
#### Post date: [March 5, 2007, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-bbq-in-the-winter/394588/24 "2007-03-05T13:30:13Z")
For sure.
Last week I made a few burgers. Tonight, I’m planning on throwing on some salmon.
I don’t do it as much in the winter, but I always do do it. I like to grill on New Years Day, too.
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### Author:  [@Cartooniverse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartooniverse)
#### Post date: [March 5, 2007, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-bbq-in-the-winter/394588/25 "2007-03-05T14:37:14Z")
[QUOTE=Queen Bruin]
I draw the line at rain, but only because I don’t have an adequately covered grilling area.
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Wimp. 😃
I flew to Detroit for a meeting last March. Awful bitter rainy day. Got there late. It was a “get to meet you all, sit and talk generally, eat, then get into very serious details” kind of afternoon/evening. The rain delayed me getting in early.
I landed, got the rental car and crawled up I-75. I arrived at the guy’s studio area in an industrial park, to find a big blue tarp held up with grip stands just outside the door. They grilled in the driving rain, by god. They found a way !!
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### Author:  [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)
#### Post date: [March 5, 2007, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-bbq-in-the-winter/394588/26 "2007-03-05T14:43:55Z")
We use our grill 4 to 5 times a week regardless of the season or weather inclemency. It’s between the house and garage in the roofed walkway, so I can use it even in a downpour. The one caveat is that in the winter sometimes I must crank up the heat a bity more or let it cook for awhile longer.
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### Author:  [@Cartooniverse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartooniverse)
#### Post date: [March 5, 2007, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-bbq-in-the-winter/394588/27 "2007-03-05T14:46:00Z")
I was worried about that last night with the burgers, but it seemed not to matter so much. The wind, as much as the ambient air temp, worried me.
They grilled. Many fine compliments were delivered. Multiple servings were enjoyed. There was much festivity.
The sauteed onions didn’t hoit either !
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### Author:  [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)
#### Post date: [March 5, 2007, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-bbq-in-the-winter/394588/28 "2007-03-05T14:59:15Z")
I cooked dinner over charcoal on Christmas day a couple of years back, and it was great - it was one of those cold, clear, bright winter days - why anyone would want to sit next to a hot brazier in August is beyond me.
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### Author:  [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)
#### Post date: [March 5, 2007, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-bbq-in-the-winter/394588/29 "2007-03-05T17:09:21Z")
[QUOTE=Queen Bruin]
I’ll probably be moving **down below** …
[/QUOTE]
😃
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### Author:  [@Boggette](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boggette)
#### Post date: [March 5, 2007, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-bbq-in-the-winter/394588/30 "2007-03-05T17:19:41Z")
Oh yeah! And if the wind is too much, it goes just inside the garage doors to keep the heat from dissipating too much. Doesn’t matter what the temp is! I needs me my steaks, I do!
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### Author:  [@Silence\_of\_the\_clams](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silence_of_the_clams)
#### Post date: [March 5, 2007, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-bbq-in-the-winter/394588/31 "2007-03-05T18:00:31Z")
You guys are crazy! In the late autumn the grill is packed neatly away with the garden furniture, and the lumps of tallow and seeds for the birds are prepared and hang up in the trees.
When spring arrives, said grill and furniture is put back in the garden to keep the sprouting flowers company.
Grilling in winter would be like serving gingerbread cookies and warm spiced wine in summer. Its illogical. Its blasphemy. Burn the witches! Burn! Where is the BBQ inquisition when needed?!
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### Author:  [@justrob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/justrob)
#### Post date: [March 5, 2007, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-bbq-in-the-winter/394588/32 "2007-03-05T18:21:38Z")
I usually do it once or twice a winter. When a nice 35F sunny day happens you sometimes just need to roll the grill out of the garage and cook up some burgers. I almost did it Saturday but spent the day brewing instead.
The most memorable was one Sunday, while I was still living in the dorms, my roomate and I took our portable grill outside and grilled some brats. On the way back up in the elevator with them some said, “Oh, that’s where that was coming from.” It seems we set the grill up near the fresh air intake for the dorm without realizing it. 🙂
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### Author:  [@krisolov](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/krisolov)
#### Post date: [March 5, 2007, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-bbq-in-the-winter/394588/33 "2007-03-05T18:30:12Z")
all year long for sure. I have shovelled out the grill on my back patio many times. Propane can be a bit tricky, and it takes a bit longer to preheat and cook things, but there’s nothing like digging in to a nice grilled steak with the wind howling and the snow a-blowin’.
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### Author:  [@Tastes\_of\_Chocolate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tastes_of_Chocolate)
#### Post date: [March 5, 2007, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-bbq-in-the-winter/394588/34 "2007-03-05T20:18:41Z")
Yep. All year round. The smoker has a skirt to keep the wind out and the heat in. The regular gas grill gets used spur of the moment.
We went for a little over a year once, in Chicago, without a stove or oven. Everything was cooked in the microwave, on an electric countertop stove, or on the grill. Pizza, smoked on a grill in January, is wonderful. Even the chocolate chip cookies came out well.
Suddenly, steak tonight sounds really good.
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### Author:  [@wolf\_in\_second\_hand\_clothing](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolf_in_second_hand_clothing)
#### Post date: [March 5, 2007, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-bbq-in-the-winter/394588/35 "2007-03-05T23:34:53Z")
I never have, but I would like to start.
I withdrew from my classes this semester for an internship in Mexico, and would like to have a get together so I can see everyone before leaving at the end of this month. As a bonus, we can make a bonfire with all the branches that fell off the trees during the recent ice storms that crippled my state.
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### Author:  [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)
#### Post date: [March 5, 2007, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-bbq-in-the-winter/394588/36 "2007-03-05T23:55:39Z")
At least you had the good sense to seperate BBQ and grilling. 2 completely different things.
To the OP - we do both year-round. Not that hard in SoCal. Both the smoker and the Weber are off the back porch, under some protection from the elements. So far this winter I have smoked a brisket and grilled untold numbers of hamburgers, hot dogs and chicken breasts, along with kebobs of veggies and a few pineapples.
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### Author:  [@Harmonious\_Discord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harmonious_Discord)
#### Post date: [March 6, 2007, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-bbq-in-the-winter/394588/37 "2007-03-06T00:20:17Z")
I did when I had a good grill. I didn’t even grill last summer due to not owning a usable one. I used to grill tenderlion make italian garlic bread on the grill, and have an ice cold spumanti with some apple and cheese slices.
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### Author:  [@Cartooniverse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartooniverse)
#### Post date: [March 6, 2007, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-bbq-in-the-winter/394588/38 "2007-03-06T00:34:56Z")
[QUOTE=justrob]
The most memorable was one Sunday, while I was still living in the dorms, my roomate and I took our portable grill outside and **grilled some brats**. On the way back up in the elevator with them some said, “Oh, that’s where that was coming from.”
[/QUOTE]
How long did it take the neighbors to miss their kids?
:eek:
😃
I didn’t differentiate between BBQ and grilling.
The stoning may now commence. 😛
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### Author:  [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)
#### Post date: [March 6, 2007, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-bbq-in-the-winter/394588/39 "2007-03-06T00:37:14Z")
HERETIC! Stone the unbeliever! 😃
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### Author:  [@Cartooniverse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartooniverse)
#### Post date: [March 6, 2007, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-bbq-in-the-winter/394588/40 "2007-03-06T00:47:35Z")
Awesome.
It’s been _years_ since I got stoned.
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