To set the record straight BBQ is a method of cooking, Brisket is just a cut of meat. With that said BBQ is the method of cooking slow and low over indirect heat and smoking is an enhancement byproduct of that method. Grilling is cooking over hot direct coals and is a faster method, like cooking hamburgers & hotdogs, steak, Kabobs ect. You can however cook ribs and brisket over a direct flame but then you are grilling it not BBQing it, BBQ can only be achieved by using coals of wood or charcol and gas grills will never be considered BBQ ever ever. BBQing in the true sense is going by the wayside as in this day and age folks prefer speed to sacrifice flavor, BBQ infuses flavor by use of the method of cookin and this can take many many hours in a labor of love, that which gas grill guys would never consider trying simply because it takes tooooo long. That is also why you have seen the surge in marinating meat as a way to speed up the cooking process and infuse artificial flavor as a crutch to the meat. This is posted by someone who BBQ's 100's of lbs of meat every yr, and I guess you can figure out I do not own a shinney gas anything LOL.
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They take their bbq very seriously here, and it is meat slow cooked over smoke with low heat...meat and cooking technique are what it is about. Anything else is just grilled.
