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Canadian surgeons urge people to throw out bristle BBQ brushes
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Re: Canadian surgeons urge people to throw out bristle BBQ brushes
#262From AmazingRibs.com ( http://amazingribs.com/BBQ_buyers_guide/grill_grate_cleaning... ) "Be careful with bristle brushes, especially cheap brass bristle brushes. Bristles fall out. Every year there are scores of sad news stories about people eating meals with bristles hiding on them. The bristle gets stuck in their throats or digestive systems, and repairs can get pretty ugly. Every so often someone dies." I bought…
The article specifically mentions that some of the people were not using cheap brushes.
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The whole point of barbecue is indirect cooking with smoke. Unless y'all mean grilling when you say BBQ.
is this for real ? I've always meant grilling and assumed anyone else meant the same :( EDIT: might be a linguistic issue, wikipedia has different meanings of BBQ in different languages.
Yea, if you hear "BBQ" and think "grilling", then you might be missing out on the phenomenon that is real southern BBQ, which is a significantly different culinary phenomenon.
Growing up in the northeast US, I didn't learn about the existence of BBQ until I was 23.
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#266Earlier quoted context omitted.
The whole point of barbecue is indirect cooking with smoke. Unless y'all mean grilling when you say BBQ.
That's just one of the many words that have different meanings in different countries. We Australians take our barbecueing very seriously and it rarely involves indirect cooking. :-) The most common form of barbecueing here involves cooking on a flat hotplate over direct heat.
The tragic thing about this is that it prevents people in places like the northeastern US from realising that the phenomenon of real BBQ exists. I know that until met my wife at age 23, I had never even seen actual slow-cooked collagen-has-turned-to-gelatin BBQ.
This isn't an instance of the Scotsman fallacy, it is a genuine category error.
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This is not really true. What the US banned were toys and novelty items based around easily-swallowable rare earth magnets. The ban is on marketing and packaging, not on magnets themselves.
Rare earth magnets are unsuitable to be marketed as toys? Then it makes sense that metal bristle scrubbers are unsuitable to be marketed for cleaning food-prep equipment.
Strong agree.
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#268A trick I learned from Argentinian circus people, who make amazing BBQ, is let the grill heat up and then cut an onion in half to rub on the grate. It imparts a nice flavor and cleans the grill very well.
Same in Chile. My friends and family here in the US always question why I'm rubbing an onion on the grill.
I guess this is a Hispanic American thing? I'm from the North of Mexico and that's how we do it too.
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Off topic but any other tricks you learned from Argentinian circus people? Or circus people in general?
There's one where you put six relatively small guys on motorcycles inside a spherical metal cage. They drive around in circles but can't for the life of them get any mobile phone signal while inside.
Thanks, I spit out my coffee.
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#270A trick I learned from Argentinian circus people, who make amazing BBQ, is let the grill heat up and then cut an onion in half to rub on the grate. It imparts a nice flavor and cleans the grill very well.
It's also the canonical method here in Guadalajara.
Same in Chihuahua, it would be interesting to know when and where it became a thing.