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Best advice...cook to temperature. Regardless if you torch your food with a flame thrower or smoke it for hours at a time, know what temperature you're shooting for and cook to it. Your taste buds will thank you.
I was just gonna say.. Go to the local Hombre Depot.. Go to the BBG grill section and buy a digital meat thermometer. Most foods cook until about 165-170*.. Pork a little longer. like 175-180*
Next Make sure you thaw your meat to room temperature before cooking it.. In that sense this is a good time to setup your marinades too.
As for grill, I understand the convenience of gas grills but no bueno.. You can go on Craigslist, Freecycle, and other like sites and pick up an old weber grill for $10-15 if not free sometimes because someone sold them on "convenience" of gas grills. Ive personally thrown steaks literally on the fire at campsites, dusted off the flake of ash or two and they were great. But everything tastes better with charcoal, NO Gas/fuel needed.
If you know how to start your coals up separately in a coal starter than dumb them in a pattern in your Weber type grill you will start learning what the meats and veggies do. You can even smoke meat in a Weber better than some smokers.
My Swedish buddy made a rather interesting smoker out of a 4 drawer file cabinet tho..
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