Whats the Dumbest thing you ever did Grilling, BBQ or

[treegje]

Whats the Dumbest thing you ever did Grilling, BBQ or smoking

I will start with my most stupid thing,here it is

years ago when I first wanted to cook trout ,in Papillot

I foil the trout in alufoil ,with vegetables and white wine
closed the Papillot very good

placed them on the grill,but then I saw them be inflated

I thought that is bad

, I made quick a few holes in each,I thought now they are saved.

(but no)

The result I do not have to explain

yes now I know better

I was that moment Cooking for friends,I could crawl in the ground of shame

the only one who became better was, the garbage bin

 

[chisoxjim]

tried smoking a bacon wrapped avocado.

 

[acemakr]

My goodness - and I thought bacon went with everything.

 

[oneshot]

I started smoking food...Now I can't "STOP"!!!!!!!!!

LMAO

 

[linbru]

After grilling I always turn the burners up to high for a minute or two and then turn everything off.

I once forgot it and two hrs later it came to mind. Well the tank ran out but not before it incinerated the grill. Needed a new one anyway and a good thing it wasn't close to the house.

 

[chisoxjim]

so did I,.. the concept sounded good, just didnt turn out for me.

 

[meatball]

I can't tell you how many times I've left the burners on and had the propane tank run dry after I was done cooking on my gas grill.
Extreme hunger + lots of beer= No propane the next day

When I was younger (and much less intelligent

), I tried to put out a grease fire on my grill with water

Guess I could have just turned off the burners and let the grease burn off, but I learned that one the hard way.

 

[coyote-1]

Never had a drastically bad grill event.

But my worst was just last year! On the Weber kettle, trying to do nine beef loin steaks for company. Wife wanted grilled asparagus; she insisted on using one of those perforated no-stick 10"x13" sheets for them. So stuff was crammed too much onto the surface, which inhibited proper airflow - and the steaks never got that proper grilled effect. They were mediocre. It sucked to have to serve that quality of food to company.

It was my fault though. I knew that was gonna happen, but instead of holding my ground I decided I didn't want to argue. But there IS an upside! My wife now listens to me when I make cooking recommendations.

 

[igolf2]

1st. slow cook - 6 racks of BB's on grill - friends over+mucho beer+lose track of time = wife says "what's all that smoke in the back yard?"

Had pizza delivered.

 

[oneshot]

Golf, somehow that story and your avatar go together perfectly.
I can picture your wife saying "what's all that smoke in the backyard" and you having the expression of Bill Murray on yer face......

lmao

 

[evo 9 guy]

I have to admit I have done this myself, but I have my built in plumbed to the natural gas from the house=never run out of fuel=new porcelean briqs above burners.

 

[richoso1]

When I was a teenager, I grilled a piece of liver. Now that is some nasty tasting stuff.

 

[yodelhawk]

Can not take full credit for this but I was just as guilty for not checking. My first wife on our first Thanksgiving dinner was making the turkey. I told her what she needed to do and gave instructions on how to make giblet gravy. Went off to work for a couple of hours and when I got home she was in full cooking mode. When I asked why she was not making the gravy like I asked she told me that there were no giblets in the bird. I figure...Well, big automated processing plant... it's possible that they did not make it into the bird. We had a great dinner and when I cut into the bird the next day to make a sandwich... you guessed it there was the plastic bag with the giblets. I'm still not sure that this is not the reason we wound up divorced

 

[raceyb]

Bought cheap store brand charcoal to save a few bucks.....

This stuff wouldn't burn if you tossed it into a 3 alarm house fire.

 

[yodelhawk]

Ok... got one more. Had a huge party about four years ago and had all the meat on the grill at low heat to keep hot while all were eating. Had a few to many beers and left two whole briskets on the grill over night. Woke up bight and early the next day (about 1300) and started to clean up when I found the 2 briskets... There was no saving those things.

 

[newb]

Making Corned beef & cabbage.

Don't even remember how long I had it cooking but it was a loooooooong time and it wouldn't get up to temperature - not even 100. After some more beer and a couple more hours I hear the wife very polietly point out the fact that I had the thermo on C instead of F.

Needless to say we ate vegetarian cabbage soup that night.

 

[bbqhead]

I have a didgital themopen, and during a contest this year I got it out to check temps. opened it all the way for some reason,in a hurry I guess, it had foreign language on it,what the **** is wrong with this sun of a *****? long story short, I had it upside down. turned it over it was fine. I swore i wound not tell anyone, but i'm ok now.

 

[trig]

Most recent was two weeks ago.

I am building my UDS, so I did a burn Friday night to clean out the canola oil in it. I poored $6 bucks worth of fire wood, random two by fours, half a bag of kingsford, and every piece of cardboard I could find in my house and garage into the barrel, and set it on fire at 4pm. At 11pm, I soaked the yard with water (still hot coals in there), and went to bed. At 6pm the next day, I used a plastic dog food scooper, and my bare hands to clean out the ash in the barrel. No problems at all.

I then went to dinner, and came home and let my dogs out. When I stuck my head out the door to get the dogs back in, I notice a bunch of smoke. The trash bag was on my patio, against the house, in flames!

Luckily, it must have just happened, because only the bag was hot. I tried grabbing it and it fell all over the place in a melty mess, so I grabbed the pooper scooper laying near by and through it all back into the drum, lol.

A very close call, for my house and my three labs.

Also, the first day I moved into my house (almost 3 years ago), I went out and bought a weber kettle. The second time using it, I bent over to use the ash cleaning deal while my coals were warming up, and earned a 2x4" scar on my forearm when I stood back up.

I'm much more careful now, well, up until the incident two weeks ago.

 

[rivet]

It was about 15 years ago, I took a real nice bottom round roast and decided to grill it. It turned out dry and tough. If I'd had a slicer and could have shaved it real thin, it would have been allright, but I didn't. I learned that very lean cuts like that need low heat, and are better braised. I ended up putting it into a crock pot, made stew and salvaged it.

 

[fire it up]

Sent my Brother out to dump the coals in the chimney into the smoker, he picked them up and walked forward barefoot right onto a hot coal, after laughing at him I went outside to check the fire in my socks and stepped on the same hot coal, it hurt so bad I turned around, screamed and put a fist sized dent in the back of my car.