Teach Dalty American!

[Mal Shot First]

It's more like an oven where the heat source is only at the top. There are no open flames involved.

[Dalty]

Also a grill.

The other is a barbecue.

In British.

[Mal Shot First]

The following are the things Americans might know as grills:




The George Foreman Grill (picture 2) isn't a grill in the traditional sense, I guess, but because of its grooves it can create the grill lines characteristic of open-fire grills. What the hell do grills look like in Britain?

The word "grill" has been used somewhat figuratively to describe these things as well:

[Dalty]

I have an improved version of the George Foreman grill. It is, indeed, called a grill.

In the UK a grill is traditionally the draw above the oven, or the top of the oven itself, where you would grill something. Like this:



Using this:



That's what we call "grilling" something. That's a broiler to you, yes?

This is what we call a barbecue:

[Dalty]

I also believe you Americans cook on a gridiron sometimes? Mind = blown.

[The Swollen Goiter of God]

We also play our version of football on a gridiron.

[neglet]

So a broiler is basically a grill?

Except it doesn't touch the food. On a grill the food sits on a grill on top of the heat, a broiler heats from above so you don't get the stripy burned bits.

[Dalty]

Which is what a grill is in Brit-Land.

[neglet]

That's because you are weirdos who think boiling meat is an appropriately mode of preparation. Here in 'Murica! we like our meat to know it's been cooked, dammit!

[The Swollen Goiter of God]

Though we do still boil our geese:

[Dalty]

That's because you are weirdos who think boiling meat is an appropriately mode of preparation. Here in 'Murica! we like our meat to know it's been cooked, dammit!

I honestly don't think I have ever boiled any meat, ever, or eaten any boiled meat. Can you even boil meat?

[The Swollen Goiter of God]

You can boil goose. Man, that Julian Casablancas is a sexy mother.

Jubbers is a meat boiler. There's nothing wrong with it.

I usually only boil meat when I'm making a stock or adding flavor to a stock. Then again, I don't cook with meat very often these days. My aunt boils whenever she makes dumplings. Boiling is an essential component to the making of Deep Southern-style dumplings.

[Mal Shot First]

When you're making stew that includes meat, you're basically boiling the meat. The only difference is that you're not just using water to do so.

And like Goiter already mentioned, making stock would usually require meat unless you're making vegetable broth.

[The Swollen Goiter of God]

I also claimed boiling was "a essential" component to the making of Deep Southern-style dumplings. I must have had a different adjective (or maybe no adjective at all) there originally.

[Dalty]

I am now remembering the awesomeness of dumplings.

[Scotia]

Deep fried pickles. Had them in Orlando as a starter. They taste soooo Yankee.

[The Swollen Goiter of God]

I'm a big fan of deep-fried pickles. I like them in chip form more than I like them in spear form. The breading-to-pickle ratio isn't as heavily skewed.

[Adam54]

Along those lines, has anyone ever tried deep fried olives? I have them every year at the state fair and if I had the ambition, know-how, equipment and something other than Ipsy's Guide to Deep-Frying in my cookbook collection, I'd make them myself.

[The Swollen Goiter of God]

Along those lines, has anyone ever tried deep fried olives?

I can picture it in my mind, and it's breathtaking.

[Dalty]

Speaking of such things, I need more Red Lobster biscuits!!! How much do I need to PayPal you to make it happen?

[The Swollen Goiter of God]

I think they're about two bucks a box. I'm not sure of the shipping costs, though. We'll have to look into it.

[Dalty]

Let me know and I will place an order. I need more of those in my life!!!

[The Swollen Goiter of God]

And they need more of you in theirs.

[Dalty]

Make it so.

[Mal Shot First]

Let me know and I will place an order. I need more of those in my life!!!

Do you need less life?