Americans: why don't you use kettles?

[Glitter]

Americans; what is being done to this steak?

Overcooking by the look of it...

 

[Spymaster]

Topfiring?

 

[SpookyFrank]

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

I may be weird, but I'm not a masochist.

 

[kittyP]

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.

Are you American?

 

[SpookyFrank]

I am not American but I went there once. It seemed more like a very large facillity for disposing of processed pig by-products than an actual country.

 

[Vintage Paw]

it's quite nice when expressing temperatures in British winters though, a negative number makes it feel all the more chilly.

You know you're fucked when it's in minus figures in the US.

"It's -10 here. Really fucking cold."

"Pfft. Here in the UK it got to -16 last winter."

"-10 fahrenheit."

"Oh."

 

[farmerbarleymow]

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

Brilling?

 

[Vintage Paw]

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

:waves:

Hi buzzfeed. Can I have a job? I can be really pedantic. I like making fun of Americans for being so silly and American. I like asserting British superiority over just about everything. At the same time, I think British customs and traditions are hilarious, and love poking fun at our daft ways. I totally dig your social media experiment (really loving that Deleuzian link, btw). I'd be a great asset to your team

 

[Vintage Paw]

No PM with a job offer yet

 

[Mrs Miggins]

I am not American but I went there once. It seemed more like a very large facillity for disposing of processed pig by-products than an actual country.

Aw come on America is fabulous!
To visit at least. I cannot comment on what it's like to live there but I love love love it as a holiday destination! it is a superb country filled with wonderful things, incredible natural landscapes and delightful people.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Aw come on America is fabulous!
To visit at least. I cannot comment on what it's like to live there but I love love love it as a holiday destination! it is a superb country filled with wonderful things, incredible natural landscapes and delightful people.

But there are no kettles with which to make a proper cup of tea.

 

[Vintage Paw]

Aw come on America is fabulous!
To visit at least. I cannot comment on what it's like to live there but I love love love it as a holiday destination! it is a superb country filled with wonderful things, incredible natural landscapes and delightful people.

I absolutely agree. I love it there. It's also massively fucked up. As are most places.

 

[Orang Utan]

But there are no kettles with which to make a proper cup of tea.

you could bring one with you, but you may end up in Guantanomo Bay as a suspected terrorist

 

[Mrs Miggins]

But there are no kettles with which to make a proper cup of tea.

I think I can live with that whilst lounging on a beach in Florida or looking out over the Grand Canyon or being in anywhere in California!

 

[kittyP]

I am not American but I went there once. It seemed more like a very large facillity for disposing of processed pig by-products than an actual country.

If you are not American I don't need your opinion on what a BBQ is called

 

[quimcunx]

Rubbish.

We have 23 different words for light rain, I'll have you know.

genuine weather forecast.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

If you are not American I don't need your opinion on what a BBQ is called

Given the weird names they use for things, a BBQ is probably called a toaster or something.

 

[danny la rouge]

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

I want to say "toasting"?

 

[DotCommunist]

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

don't sell yourself short bred. When it comes to pedantry you've cleared up at award season so many times they now award you a lifetime achievement statue.

 

[danny la rouge]

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.

My brother in law is a firefighter and he'd be very cross if you did any of that with a barbecue. Barbecues should stay horizontal and the right way up.

 

[Pickman's model]

don't sell yourself short bred. When it comes to pedantry you've cleared up at award season so many times they now award you a lifetime achievement statue.

yeh and when you get a lifetime achievement award that's because they don't expect you to win another goddam thing.

 

[Yuwipi Woman]

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.

That is a broiler pan. A grill pan goes on top of the stove and is used to grill foods much as you'd grill food outdoors. Our names are perfectly simple and logical: you fry with a fry pan, you grill with a grill pan, you sauté with a sauté pan, and you broil with a broil pan.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

That is a broiler pan. A grill pan goes on top of the stove and is used to grill foods much as you'd grill food outdoors. Our names are perfectly simple and illogical: you fry with a fry pan, you grill with a grill pan, you sauté with a sauté pan, and you broil with a broil pan.

Indeed they are.

 

[Yuwipi Woman]

Given the weird names they use for things, a BBQ is probably called a toaster or something.

We call it a BBQ grill.

 

[littlebabyjesus]

View attachment 69994
genuine weather forecast.

Cowardly forecasters lacking the courage to commit to some of the rich vocabulary at their disposal.

Technology . :hmmm :

 

[SpookyFrank]

Aw come on America is fabulous!
To visit at least. I cannot comment on what it's like to live there but I love love love it as a holiday destination! it is a superb country filled with wonderful things, incredible natural landscapes and delightful people.

No fair play, there are many wonderful things about the US. Excellence in the field of knowing what grilling means is simply not among them.

 

[maomao]

That is a broiler pan. A grill pan goes on top of the stove and is used to grill foods much as you'd grill food outdoors. Our names are perfectly simple and logical: you fry with a fry pan, you grill with a grill pan, you sauté with a sauté pan, and you broil with a broil pan.

What is the difference between:

a) broiling meat on a gas broiler and grilling it on a gas barbeque?

or

b) frying meat in a griddle and grilling in a grillpan?

 

[maomao]

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genuine weather forecast.

Aah, summer.

 

[Yuwipi Woman]

No fair play, there are many wonderful things about the US. Excellence in the field of knowing what grilling means is simply not among them.

Go to a Texas BBQ and say that. I dare you.

 

[Yuwipi Woman]

What is the difference between:

a) broiling meat on a gas broiler and grilling it on a gas barbeque?

not certain what you mean here.

or

b) frying meat in a griddle and grilling in a grillpan?

grill marks.