Duck BBQ 2

[bzarcher]

Duck BBQ 2
Originally uploaded by bzarcher.

These ducks kept showing up at the BBQ, staring at the grills. Like they were thinking the burgers were for them...or maybe they kept toying with the idea they could be next, in a sick form of Duck Disaster Porn. One of them kept quacking at us like it was asking, "Hey, those burgers done yet?"

These ducks scare me.

Comments

[gigerlicious.livejournal.com]

Kingsford? Good God man, where's your hardwood charcoal?

[bzarcher.livejournal.com]

When you're using a tiny Weber Smokey Joe and a smokebox for the roast, and a $10 generic grill for the burgers and roast corn, Kingsford is just fine.

[snowspinner.livejournal.com]

When you're not doing a several hour barbeque project, but are in fact just grilling, Kingsford is just fine.

Chunk charcoal is beautiful when you need a rocket engine. Hardwood chunks are beautiful when you're smoking. Past that, the stuff just isn't on the grill long enough to care what's under it, so long as it's hot and smoky.

[bzarcher.livejournal.com]

And this roast only took about an hour to smoke up, and came out just perfect.

[bzarcher.livejournal.com]

Plus, for the surface area and how many coals we need per grill, the Kingsford's much more economical. Does everything we need just fine, and a 20lb. bag for $5 will last us much of a month and a half.

[gigerlicious.livejournal.com]

Takes all kinds, I suppose. I can never go back to anything less than a hardwood when it comes to charcoal. Anything less and I'll just use the propane tank.

[bzarcher.livejournal.com]

...

I can understand a deep, firm love of the hardwood, but propane?

No, no, no. No gas. No lighter fluid. You use charcoal (or hardwood), wood chips, and a good steel chimney to get the fire going.

[gigerlicious.livejournal.com]

Oh please - you're putrifying your meat under processed coal rife with borax and sodium nitrate and you're decrying the ultra-clean power of propane? A few comments down you had no problem lowering quality for the proper price. My alternative when I'm high on meat volume or low on time isn't going to lace my food with limestone bits.

[bzarcher.livejournal.com]

Propane makes the meat taste funny. Charcoal may be impure, but stuff cooked on a gas grill has never tasted right to me.

[avylin.livejournal.com]

Ducks are so awesome. How can you not appreciate their company?

I'd be all, "Cool! Ducks!"

[bzarcher.livejournal.com]

We thought it was cool until they started stalking us for 4 hours. Then it was less, "Cool! Ducks!" and more, "Um. Ducks..."

[nachitor.livejournal.com]

At least they weren't swans.

God damned swans.

[tigerfox.livejournal.com]

No, no. God damned geese. Especially of the Canadian goose variety that like Hamilton Harbour and the grass near there.

But I'm not bitter from them crapping all over the grass we were supposed to sit on years ago. >.

[nachitor.livejournal.com]

The geese in Hamilton Harbour are lazy bastards, but at least they won't try to eat babies.

[bzarcher.livejournal.com]

Baby-eaters, eh?

[nachitor.livejournal.com]

Eating babies is what swans do best.

[bzarcher.livejournal.com]

Well, something to be said for "know your role"

[bzarcher.livejournal.com]

My grandmother should start a geese-hating club with you.

[bzarcher.livejournal.com]

Oddly enough, they keep some swans in the lake around here to drive off geese, yet the swans will allow the ducks to use the water.