Electric Grill

[xstitcher]

Hubby is thinking of giving me an electric grill for my birthday. It’s easiness is the motive for me.

How do they compare in taste with a gas grill?

[anneasquith]

An electric grill, eh no thanks, tell him champagne, chocolates and a meal at least .

[Buenchico]

These links might help:

https://bbqbarbecuegrill.com/other/electric-grill-vs-gas-grill/

https://www.diffen.com/difference/Electric_Grill_vs_Gas_Grill

(The second one suggests that the flavour isn't as great with an electric grill as with a gas one but I suspect it might depend to some extent upon what it is that you're cooking).

[Buenchico]

>>> tell him champagne, chocolates and a meal at least

But surely the grill is in addition to all those other things, isn't it?

;-)

[Old_Geezer]

Never tasted a gas grill; doesn't sound nice.
Never tasted an electric grill for that matter.
Are they fattening ?

[KARL]

A gas appliance burns fossil fuel and produces exhaust gases which (in grills and oven) swirl around and infuse the food and thus, one presumes, affect the flavour. The food so affected is ingested with whatever effects swallowing a cocktail of added compounds have on the digestive tract. While production of electricity in the UK pushes the same "added ingredients" into the atmosphere which the population then ingests through the lungs, electric ovens and grills add nothing to the food other than heat.

Smoking affects the sense of taste and maybe some like that too.

[gingejbee]

....a good proportion of the population insists on barbecuing meat which results in food that is many times more "dangerous" than that cooked by conventional grills - gas or electric.

[xstitcher]

Thanks for your input. We have a regular coal burning outdoor grill....have had a gas grill. The latter is fine after it’s used a few times but I want something quick and simple which neither of the above are. Think I’ll stick to my grill frying pans and oven.