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Making Your Grill Greener
By Annie B. Bond, Care2’s In-house Green Expert.
Charcoal grilling is still the most popular method of outdoor cooking, except in the United States where gas grills are number one. What tastes best, food cooked on charcoal or gas? There is quite a raging debate. But what is the greenest method of grilling?Gas grills, most charcoal, and lighter fluid, are made with petroleum, a non-renewable resource that is neurotoxic and causes toxic air pollution. You can avoid petroleum completely if you use a metal charcoal chimney with wood brickets.With charcoal metal chimneys you fill the cylinder with charcoal, scrunch newspaper under the charcoal in the special housing for this purpose, and then light the newspaper to heat up the coals. Once the coals are red hot you turn over the cylinder and pour the coals into the bed of the grill.You can buy a charcoal chimney for under $20 at most hardware stores, and reuse it for years. All you need to light the charcoal are some old newspapers and matches.Of course, a solar cooker is more eco-friendly than any sort of grilling or electricity-based cooking. Even grilling with wood charcoals causes pollution.Last but certainly not least, choose all organic food for grilling.
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add your comment »regarding vegans without soy: rice and beans makes a complete protein, as does peanut butter on toast. Soy is the only vegan "complete" protein, but one can get a complete protein with food combining. Here's a link with the information: http://www.weightlossforall.com/protein%20combinations.htm
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In response to a comment it is extremely possible to go vegan without soy. Use rice milk or hemp milk instead, and there are plenty of other options at heath food stores.
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electric grills like the george foreman mentioned earlier are coated with teflon for the non-stick benefits, a known carcinogen, cast iron skillets are superior and the fat retained increases the flavour and moisture content of the meat. don't fear the fat, its the sugar in our diets that the body converts to stored fat that we all need to avoid!
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im allergic to soy
so forget vegan.
there are many who cant go veggie but would likk to be m ore humane and healthy.
sure would be nice to have info to be more humane about mass animal.farming.
also aren't electric grills "cleaner" than gas?
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The George is a good option Emma and definitely Jeff has covered very important points. The cost of pollution can be seen in countries where it is the main source of home cooking. However for cooking on barb que with Mesquite for flavor and some non chemical fuel the air pollution must be lower than driving to the restaurant eating chemicalized food and definitely
less polluting than all the garbage that goes down the restaurant drainage systems. Clean and fresh cooking at home !
Boils down to alternate. Having the solar available and the charcoal for back up for festive. Looking for usable ideas before I landscape my yard . Great comments here. Do not forget Fires...yes in San Diego it is jail time if someone dies in the fire you started when they trace it back to your grill so beware. End of charcoal could be near. Pretty much with sound ordinances and fire scares the outdoors now needs to be indoors for world safety reasons. We are reaching that melodrome........hey...got it........ instead of spacescape landscape we may go melo- glasss-dome- just kidding gave up on landscaping long time ago.....water shortage in california.... .and unable to get well permits ...another city ordinance !
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Jennie Saucier said, "BTW: the solar option sounds great!, but I am quite poor and cannot afford the best in life."
These days, who isn't feeling the pinch (more like the kick to the teeth)?
But actually, you can make your own solar grill fairly inexpensively. Here's one site to get you started:
http://www.kitchencontraptions.com/archives/cat_solar_cooking.php
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Grilling with wood charcoals causes pollution.Last but certainly not least, choose all organic food for grilling.
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Grilling with wood charcoals causes pollution.Last but certainly not least, choose all organic food for grilling.
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Even grilling with wood charcoals causes pollution.Last but certainly not least, choose all organic food for grilling.
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not bad a lot to consider.
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