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> Just got my first gas BBQ and have a real basic q:
>
> Should the tap on the gas bottle be all the way open when cooking? A
> quarter turn seems to give the same amount of flame as full open is
> (maybe 3 or 4 turns) and I wonder if I'm just wasting gas otherwise.
> Maybe once these are open at all the pressure is pretty much the same
> no matter *how* open the tap is so it doesn't matter.

The tank valve should be all the way open. There is a regulator on the
line, and the control valve on the BBQ adjusts the gas flow.

> Also when BBQ recipes specify time of grilling, do they usually mean at
> full heat or moderate?

It would depend on what you are cooking. Some things are cooked on high
heat while others are best done at low or on medium. You may have to
experiment with your BBQ. Most of them heat unevenly, so you will have hot
spots and cool spots, so if you have equal size and thickness pieces of
meat cooking at the same time, some may be burning while others are barely
cooked.