{"id":200238,"date":"2021-06-01T19:36:00","date_gmt":"2021-06-02T00:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2021\/06\/01\/what-i-did-this-memorial-day-weekend\/"},"modified":"2021-06-01T19:36:00","modified_gmt":"2021-06-02T00:36:00","slug":"what-i-did-this-memorial-day-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2021\/06\/01\/what-i-did-this-memorial-day-weekend\/","title":{"rendered":"What I Did This Memorial Day Weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>My old Weber kettle grill having given up the ghost, the vent on the bottom had rusted through, I looked to get a new grill.  <\/p>\n

It had to be a charcoal grill, because while I may be a jerk, I’m not a complete git.  Gas grills are for posers.  (They are OK for camp stoves though)<\/p>\n

I liked the Weber, and would recommend it, it’s a solid basic grill, but I was thinking. <\/p>\n

I actually spent some time debating between just getting a new Weber, and this grill, a “Nexgrill 29 in. Barrel Charcoal Grill with Smoker,” which was about 30 bucks more, but included a thermometer, a side smoker box,and a side table. <\/p>\n

The clincher was that I could get this assembled from Home Depot. (It just fit in Sharon’s*<\/sup> station wagon with the back seats folded.)<\/p>\n

So, I fired it up empty to cook off any manufacturing residue, and then yesterday afternoon, I grilled some chicken. <\/p>\n

I’m not sure if it is as sturdy as the Weber, but it has a thermometer, more grill space, a top grill, its 2-piece grills actually fit in our dish washer, and with careful use of the side box, I can do some relatively low temperature smoking.  <\/p>\n

I could hold it steady about 225\u00b0F [107\u00b0C] on the kettle grill, and I’m figuring that I could reliably go as low as 150\u00b0F [66\u00b0C] on this.<\/p>\n

Made lamb for Sharon*<\/sup> and me, and chicken for the kids last evening.<\/p>\n

*<\/sup>Love of my life, light of the cosmos, she who must be obeyed<\/span>, my wife.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My old Weber kettle grill having given up the ghost, the vent on the bottom had rusted through, I looked to get a new grill.  It had to be a charcoal grill, because while I may be a jerk, I’m not a complete git.  Gas grills are for posers.  (They are OK for camp stoves …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[976,1012,1124],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-200238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family","category-food","category-photographs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200238"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200238\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}