re: I hate steaks cooked on a grill.

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My problem is that I can't get it hot enough.

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Exactly my point earlier about gas stoves vs charcoal

If you have a good cut of meat, you want to get it to a nice rich brown ASAP....the quicker the better.

So you are negating the main advantage of a grill....the ambient smokes/flavors. You don't really want it there long enough to pick much of them up.

The only superb steak I've cooked on charcoal involved building a nice hardwood fire and placing it directly on the coals, no griddle.

Do it right and you get both the rapid cook and you impart those complex flavors.