Americans: why don't you use kettles?

[kittyP]

A proper kettle would transform her life in so many ways.

 

[Pickman's model]

A proper kettle would transform her life in so many ways.

it's transformed many other people's

 

[SpookyFrank]

That, is a grill pan.

This is a grill pan:

...so called because you put it under the grill. The thing you posted goes on a burner, not under a grill.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

it's transformed many other people's

Maybe that's what we need to do with our resident refuseniks - kettle them inside a kettle shop to make them buy a kettle. They either buy a kettle or they'll stay there until they wet themselves.*

* they're not allowed to bring guns with them.

 

[Spymaster]

This is a grill pan:

...so called because you put it under the grill. The thing you posted goes on a burner, not under a grill.

I think they're going to tell you that that's a broiler pan. So called because you put it under a broiler.

 

[SpookyFrank]

I think they're going to tell you that that's a broiler pan. So called because you put it under a broiler.

So what do they think a grill is?

 

[Mrs Miggins]

So what do they think a grill is?

A barbecue?

 

[SpookyFrank]

What if you want to grill something indoors though?

 

[Spymaster]

So what do they think a grill is?

I think grilling over there is like barbecuing. If the heat source is above the food, it's broiling.

 

[SpookyFrank]

If the heat source is above the food, it's broiling.

You don't need two separate words to describe the same process happening in two different directions

 

[Spymaster]

What if you want to grill something indoors though?

I may be corrected but I think that if the "grill pan" that YP posted was put on a hob without oil, it's grilling rather than frying.

 

[Pickman's model]

I may be corrected but I think that if the "grill pan" that YP posted was put on a hob without oil, it's grilling rather than frying.

 

[SpookyFrank]

Grilling is cooking with radiant heat, frying is cooking with direct heat. If something is in a pan on a hob, then you're frying it.

 

[Pickman's model]

Grilling is cooking with radiant heat, frying is cooking with direct heat. If something is in a pan on a hob, then you're frying it.

 

[Spymaster]

You don't need two separate words to describe the same process happening in two different directions

Nowt to do with me. Take it up with the Seps!

 

[SpookyFrank]

Looks like the pot is calling the kettle black. And on a thread about kettles.

That, for the benefit of our American friends, is called irony.

 

[Spymaster]

Grilling is cooking with radiant heat, frying is cooking with direct heat. If something is in a pan on a hob, then you're frying it.

So what is BBQing?

 

[Pickman's model]

Looks like the pot is calling the kettle black. And on a thread about kettles.

That, for the benefit of our American friends, is called irony.

i don't deny i'm a pedant. but i'm in the championship while you're in the premier league.

 

[Pickman's model]

So what is BBQing?

something SpookyFrank would rather die than be seen doing.

 

[skyscraper101]

I think grilling over there is like barbecuing. If the heat source is above the food, it's broiling.

But you also get charbroiling, so maybe not.

 

[SpookyFrank]

So what is BBQing?

It is a form of grilling. It's radiant heat from the coals which is cooking the food.

To classify methods of cooking based on the direction of heat transfer rather than the method of heat transfer is insane. The latter affects the flavour of the cooked food, the former does not.

 

[SpookyFrank]

Toasters cook food sideways, so is that grilling or broiling?

 

[Pickman's model]

It is a form of grilling. It's radiant heat from the coals which is cooking the food.

To classify methods of cooking based on the direction of heat transfer rather than the method of heat transfer is insane. The latter affects the flavour of the cooked food, the former does not.

see? you're up there with the premiership pedants.

 

[SpookyFrank]

see? you're up there with the premiership pedants.

It's important. If we just make up words at random, as our trans-pond cousins are so fond of doing, then language will eventually become meaningless and civilisation as we know it will crumble into dust.

 

[kittyP]

Americans? If you are inviting people over to come and eat food that has been grilled over hot coals in your garden, what do you say you are inviting them to?
A BBQ? A grilling?

 

[Pickman's model]

It's important. If we just make up words at random, as our trans-pond cousins are so fond of doing, then language will eventually become meaningless and civilisation as we know it will crumble into dust.

 

[Spymaster]

Americans; what is being done to this steak?

 

[SpookyFrank]

Americans? If you are inviting people over to come and eat food that has been grilled over hot coals in your garden, what do you say you are inviting them to?
A BBQ? A grilling?

I'd call it a barbecue. A barbecue is a specific type of grill, and it also refers more generally to an outdoor social gathering centred on the preparation and consumption of poorly cooked meat products.

If I were to turn my barbecue round through 180 degrees, it would still be a barbecue. If I moved my barbecue event from wednesday to thursday, it would still be a barbecue. And if you grill food upwards then that's the same fucking thing as grilling downwards so it doesn't need a fucking separate word.

 

[skyscraper101]

If anyone ever suspected Buzzfeed UK are roaming around these forums looking for shit to create articles from....

http://www.buzzfeed.com/lukebailey/you-can-do-nothing-right?bffb&utm_term=4ldqpgp#.dv7Kww7Xl

 

[Spymaster]

I'd call it a barbecue. A barbecue is a specific type of grill, and it also refers more generally to an outdoor social gathering centred on the preparation and consumption of poorly cooked meat products.

If I were to turn my barbecue round through 180 degrees, it would still be a barbecue. If I moved my barbecue event from wednesday to thursday, it would still be a barbecue. And if you grill food upwards then that's the same fucking thing as grilling downwards so it doesn't need a fucking separate word.

You're getting weirder every day. Have you been hanging out with Orang Utan