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.
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. 😊
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.
Both are delicious and both are better than using propane in my opinion. No propane cooked steaks in my family. Wait I haven't been able to afford steak since 2020.
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 Andy👍🏻❤️
I love cooking Tomahawk steak over wood fire 🤤
This test was based on time as well? So now smoke your meat over various flavored wood and see which you prefer.
Isn’t charcoal just burnt wood?
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.
Hank Hill is fuming at this
What do you think charcoal I'd made of?
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. 😊
Wow Andy nice Braai Bru! South Africans will approve of that setup.
@andy please get together with Guga Foods that would be epic
Pellet grill set and forget…wood taste without the wood hassle
Neither, propane, taste the meat not the heat
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.
Sometimes I'm lazy and I go to sleep hungry.
Next try microwave
When I’m lazy, I have 2 minute noodles 🍜
First time Ive heard charcoal being called the fast way
gotta have a palate cleanser.
Ok..i want your grill. Scratch that. I NEED your grill
Propane.
118° is blue.
You should try dried corn cobs.
Your charcoal is much better quality than what passes for backyard barbecue charcoal in the USA.😂
Wood turned into charcoal
lamb grilled over wood is one of my fav pieces of meat i've had in my life.
if ur in a hurry use gas lol
Use both or use wood charcoal mesquite wood and no oil use butter
Tamarack wood
Both are delicious and both are better than using propane in my opinion. No propane cooked steaks in my family. Wait I haven't been able to afford steak since 2020.
I use both
Can’t believe you tasted wood
Iron bark does have a very specific taste Andy, well most woods do but its certainly hard to miss the taste of Iron bark
Great experiment, but b loody hell, who can afford iron bark 😵💫
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 Andy👍🏻❤️
Hey Andy, where did you get your grill?
Charcoal