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what's the secret to keep gas grills from flaming up?

Posted on 9/8/11 at 7:30 pm
Posted by lsufan112001
sportsmans paradise
Member since Oct 2006
10723 posts
Posted on 9/8/11 at 7:30 pm
i'd like to know before i bring out the sledgehammer to this muther.

of course you could clean it every time I guess,
Posted by tetu
Ascension Parish
Member since Jan 2011
12269 posts
Posted on 9/8/11 at 7:33 pm to
i;ve never had that problem w/ my weber q
Posted by Croacka
Denham Springs
Member since Dec 2008
61441 posts
Posted on 9/8/11 at 7:38 pm to
not the best solution, but ive seen people keep a spray bottle of water on the grill



Posted by CITWTT
baton rouge
Member since Sep 2005
31765 posts
Posted on 9/8/11 at 8:12 pm to
Take gas grill out two hundred yards from dwelling with two full LP bottles, shoot one with a .308 rifle, and duck behind sonething solid. Problem solved after you hear the big boom and wait about ten seconds, to make sure that both bottles blew at once.
Posted by tigeryat
God's Country
Member since Oct 2005
2917 posts
Posted on 9/8/11 at 8:27 pm to
No way to stop it. Greasy foods like ribeyes or skin-on chicken will burn your house down.

Next grill you buy, try a no flare grill. I have a charbroil infra red and it never flares, not even while grilling ribeyes.
Posted by KosmoCramer
Member since Dec 2007
76554 posts
Posted on 9/8/11 at 9:29 pm to
what are you cooking, and how high?

And is your grill a piece of shite?
Posted by 4LSU2
Member since Dec 2009
37349 posts
Posted on 9/8/11 at 10:33 pm to
Best way is to never use a gas grill.
Posted by SG_Geaux
Beautiful St George
Member since Aug 2004
78078 posts
Posted on 9/8/11 at 10:52 pm to
quote:

what's the secret to keep gas grills from flaming up?



Get a good grill.


quote:

of course you could clean it every time I guess,


Well DUH. That is one of the secrets you dumbass. It ain't that hard to clean. When you take the last of your food off, crank it up to high and leave it there until it stops smoking.
This post was edited on 9/8/11 at 10:54 pm
Posted by la_birdman
Northern GA via Lake Charles
Member since Feb 2005
31033 posts
Posted on 9/8/11 at 10:54 pm to
It'll happen. Really no way around it. Particularly if you cook steaks or ribs, something with a lot of fat that will drip off it. That's what starts it.

If you have a lid for your grill, use that. That'll keep them to a minimum. But if you're cooking in open air, those flames will feed off the oxygen.

ETA: and when grilling, don't have your flames jacked up to the moon. Have it around medium heat. That'll be perfect.
This post was edited on 9/8/11 at 10:56 pm
Posted by LSUTygerFan
Homerun Village
Member since Jun 2008
33232 posts
Posted on 9/9/11 at 7:21 am to
My infrared grill rarely flares up. Actually the only time i had any kind of fire was cooking armadillo eggs.

The huge drawback to these grills is that the stuff that would normaly drip to the bottom of the grill just settles on top of plate that's supposed to prevent flareups. And it's kind of a bitch to clean because the grates are so wide a wirebrush is almost useless.I use my pressure washer to clean the grates.


But hey....no "flareups".
Posted by notiger1997
Metairie
Member since May 2009
58277 posts
Posted on 9/9/11 at 7:32 am to
Buy a better grill.
Posted by BayouBlitz
Member since Aug 2007
15854 posts
Posted on 9/9/11 at 8:27 am to
Are you using ceramic briquettes?

Posted by Ric Flair
Charlotte
Member since Oct 2005
13683 posts
Posted on 9/9/11 at 8:56 am to
Buy a Weber. It cost more up front, but you avoid alot of issues that are common with cheaper gas grills, and they last forever so the overall price difference is negligible.
Posted by Gaston
Dirty Coast
Member since Aug 2008
39080 posts
Posted on 9/9/11 at 9:05 am to
Posted by Jax-Tiger
Port Saint Lucie, FL
Member since Jan 2005
24786 posts
Posted on 9/10/11 at 11:35 am to
Like so many others have said, get a Weber and you won't have to purchase another gas grill for 10-15 years. It is VERY good at keeping the nice little flareups from turning into fires. You will, probably have to buy new flavorizer bars and/or grates every 5 years, or so, and keep it clean.

There is no grill that will completely prevent food from catching on fire in high heat. One thing that I see that causes a lot of flareups is people putting fatty meat, such as chicken, directly over the flame. When you do this, the fat drips down into the flame and eventually, it flares up (regardless of flavorizer bars or ceramic briquets). You want to cook meats with a high fat content over indirect heat.

I cook my steaks over the high direct heat for a few minutes and then move them over indirect heat to finish them. This gives me the good grill marks and crust without burning the meat. Good meat is to expensive to not cook it right.
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