I love to grill year round, and, living in Minnesota, while it's a bit more challenging for me to grill in the winter months, I try to spark the grill at least once a week.

I only cook with lump charcoal (occasionally wood), although I am thinking about getting a gas grill to make it easier when it's cold out.

What is holding be back is the cost of a decent gas grill and the fact that I simply prefer the taste of food cooked on wood or lump charcoal.

If you are one who grills during the winter months, I am curious what you use and why.

I'm burn them outside alll year long. I'm a wood guy and burn bickets and lump. But don't let your outdoor cooking end there. Nope today's outdoors grilling adventure was fueled by a collection of odd wood scraps from the fall and winter around the place. Dumped everything into a weber grill and fired it up.

Gas blows. No flavor. Charcoal rules. I like to throw some chokecherry or red oak chunks into the fire for some flavorful smoke. Hickory is ok, but not as good as the one's mentioned. Choke Cherry is the best.

Try cooking a turkey breast on a Weber charcoal grill for 2-3 hours with some charcoal and wood chunks. Stick a thermometer into it when you think it should be around done.

You won't go back to an oven. I actually have relatives that I don't like, and who don't like me, show up when I'm cooking turkey breasts. Kind of a win-lose, I guess.

Tomster

we have a weber silver series gas grill. after a few grillings the grates and flavorizer bars load up with drippings, i find the meat coming out of it to be very flavorful.

I resisted gas grills for a long time, digital photography, too. Finally broke through on both counts. I have big a unit that has a gas grill with a side burner, and a charcoal grill with a firebox attached so you can smoke. It's probably not as good at any one of those things as a dedicated unit, but it's handy as hell. You can sear meat on the gas and then cook it on the coals, same thing with smoking a brisket. I do dearly love the wood but I'm not 25 anymore. Actually I'm not even 55 anymore

quote kanoes: "we have a weber silver series gas grill. after a few grillings the grates and flavorizer bars load up with drippings, i find the meat coming out of it to be very flavorful."

That is what I am looking at. If I could only stop spending cash on gear...!

quote Frenchy19: "

quote kanoes: "we have a weber silver series gas grill. after a few grillings the grates and flavorizer bars load up with drippings, i find the meat coming out of it to be very flavorful."

That is what I am looking at. If I could only stop spending cash on gear...!"

its a fantastic grill. after 8 years ive only had to replace the flavorizer bars once.

Why not have your cake and eat it too! I too like like charcoal but hate using fluid and waiting, picked up a weber performer grill, has a nice surface to work on and best of all uses propane to get the coals going fast without fluid, still a little messy as you have to play with the briquettes but what's one more hand washing when you can have char grilled taste.