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"smoking" vs. grilling with some smoke?
ddegger
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Philosophical question from a new LBGE owner who's anxiously awaiting delivery and has been reading all these great posts in the meantime. One of the main reasons I went with the Egg is versatility, and I plan to do lots of grilling and smoking. I noticed that a lot of posters talk about adding wood chips or wood chunks to their high temperature grilling to provide smokey flavor. I assume this is still 'grilling', and that 'smoking' something means doing it low and slow? Or am I missing the point?
Thanks for this and all the other great advise you all provide!
Thanks for this and all the other great advise you all provide!
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IMO it is more like Coke & Pop. For lots of times the words are used interchangeable w/o worry to meaning. Or like grill and grate is used.Salado TX & 30A FL: Egg Family: 3 Large and a very well used Mini, added a Mini Max when they came out (I'm good for now). Plus a couple Pit Boss Pellet Smokers.
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I have heard the terms used in different ways...but here is my stab at definitions:Smoking- Cooking under 300ish using indirect heat (plate setter or some other heat deflector in place).Roasting - Cooking over 300ish using indirect heat.Grilling - Cooking with direct heat.Baking- Same as roasting...just means you are cooking bread or cookies instead of meat.Now, for any one of these methods you can add wood to the egg to generate smoke. You will definitely get more smoke with a lower temperature because the wood burns slower and it smokes longer, and the food stays in the egg longer the slower you cook it.All that being said- this is just my general interpretation based on how I have seen people use the terms. They are used interchangeably as @Mickey said.Maybe it is easier just to say something like "cooked indirect at 350 with some hickory chunks"...then everyone knows what you mean!Which came first the chicken or the egg? I egged the chicken and then I ate his leg.
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I cook things indirect with smoke at 450...idk what that's considered...Green egg, dead animal and alcohol. The "Boro".. TN
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henapple said:I cook things indirect with smoke at 450...idk what that's considered...Which came first the chicken or the egg? I egged the chicken and then I ate his leg.
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@henapple as long as you have a beer in your hand who cares?
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When I'm doing a spatchcock chicken i use a straw...can't contaminate the beer.Green egg, dead animal and alcohol. The "Boro".. TN
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IMO:
Smoking is adding smoke. I can be done cold or hot, direct or indirect.
Roasting (meat) and baking (other foods) are indirect cooks, just about any temp.
Grilling and broiling are direct heat cooking - one will give you grill marks, the other won't.
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You are pretty much right.
The terminology is not very precise.
From what I have read, BBQ is always done in the presence of wood smoke, but not flame, on seasoned meats. But it is done in at a hotter environment that cold or hot smoking. That allows both smoke penetration and a smoke coat, like plain smoking, and also bark formation. At higher temps, "grilling" sears the outside of the meat for a shorter period, with or without a lesser addition of smoke flavor. Typically, grilling is for most tender meats, or some veg that benefits from an outside char.
Semantics aside, the Egg is a great cooker. Cold smoking is pretty difficult, and simmering a stock pot is not efficient. Otherwise, it works well, and in all weather.
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simmering a stock pot is not efficient.
I have simmered a roast....Green egg, dead animal and alcohol. The "Boro".. TN -
henapple said:simmering a stock pot is not efficient. I have simmered a roast....
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And all this being said, it is my opinion the lower the temp the more the smoke flavour, which is why I like a reverse sear for some steaks. Trex I do not use smoke, it all happens so fast, there is little smoke added to the meat, the charred crust is flavour enough.Delta B.C. - Whiskey and steak, because no good story ever started with someone having a salad!
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It is really just egging.
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Great comments, thanks! If I like egging half as much as reading this forum I'll be set!
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