On Sun, 10 Aug 2014 09:53:04 -0500, Janet Wilder >
wrote:

>On 8/10/2014 12:03 AM, sf wrote:
>> On Sat, 09 Aug 2014 17:28:32 -1000, dsi1
>> > wrote:
>>
>>> I'm pretty ignorant about those things. I grew up using one of those
>>> little hibachis. Now that's what I call "Mickey Mouse."
>>
>> I think a hibachi was the introduction that most people our age (on
>> the West Coast and Hawaii) had to barbecuing. I know it was mine and
>> most of my friends who are natives. It fit neatly on apartment fire
>> escapes and lived there with our plants. Fire escapes were the poor
>> man's balcony back in the day.
>>
>>
>We East Coasters had our hibachis, too. Our apartments did have a
>balcony.

I set up my first grill in my parents back yard, I was like 8 years
old; three cinder blocks on the ground with an old fridge grate.
Actually I did my first outdoor cooking when I was about five years
old, dig a hole in a vacant lot, build a fire with glommed produce
crates and whatever found wood, make a nice bed of coals and roast
mickys.