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  1. To truly compare apples with apples you would need to cook over wood and charcoal of the same species. Ironbark is a great hardwood for cooking, but a significant % of charcoal we get here in Oz is from inferior hardwood that you would never cook with in its pre charcoal form.

  2. If you use charcoal, use lump hardwood chrcoal.. The flavor is way beyond standard, compressed charcoal. Raw hardwood burned down is best, lump, compressed coal (most people don't let the coals completely burn and ash over, then complain about the weird taste. Let the coals burn long enough!), then gas. If you use gas, use some hardwood pellets in a little smoke box to bolster the flavor. 😊

  3. When you gotta use charcoal, & want that wood flavor add a piece of wood soaked in water. They sell wood chunks (at least in the states) just for this. Popular choices are mesquite wood, apple wood, & my favorite hickory wood are the most common here.

  4. The fire is the fun part. The steak is a happy byproduct. It took years for my wife to understand that building a fire and burning it down for 3 hours (just to sear a skirt steak for 6 minutes), is the equivalent to sitting on a boat with a fishing pole. Keep up the great work AndyπŸ‘πŸ»β€οΈ

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