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> "JoeSpareBedroom" > wrote in message
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>> >> I'm having the damnedest luck researching this, and I don't know why.
>> >> Maybe it's just not made??
>> >>
>> >> I want to grill my own steaks. At home. On a table. That's all!
>> >>
>> >> But electric doesn't seem to really do the job, on account of the low
>> >> temperatures. So gas seems the way to go. But, heck, where are these
>> >> things?? Doesn't anyone make a simple gas grill that sits on the
>> >> table
>> >> or counter top and can be used indoors? Okay, so I need ventilation:
>> >> I'll leave the window open and have a fan blowing.
>> >>
>> >> I tried looking and looking but no one seems to make such a thing! I
>> >> just need to directly cook over flames in an apartment, and I can't
>> >> buy
>> >> some huge fancy restaurant-grade contraption.
>> >>
>> >> Now, in the meantime, I came across something called infrared
>> >> grilling!
>> >> Sounds interesting, but they are at least a grand and a half for the
>> >> low-end models, and I need them smaller, anyway.
>> >>
>> >> So does anyone have any recommendations? Or am I forced to use a
>> >> portable tabletop CHARCOAL grill indoors?? (That means I'll have to
>> >> buy an industrial-strength fan, too, in all likelihood!)
>> >>
>> >> I can't believe it's so hard to get a fire started in 2006 A.D. =)
>> >>
>> >> Thanks in advance for any advice! I want to cook meat directly over
>> >> flames, but indoors, in an apartment, no less! I don't know why, but
>> >> all the grilling stuff I can google are either outdoors or electric or
>> >> over fireplaces!!
>> >>
>> > As Alton Brown on one of his shows once said: "A broiler is nothing
>> > more
>> > than an upside down grill."
>> > The only thing you won't get is a crosshatch pattern on the meat. If
>> > you'd
>> > like a crosshatch pattern burnt into your steak, go purchase a hunk of
>> > steel
>> > diamond grate and heat it in the broiler as the broiler heats up. A
> steel
>> > diamond grate has a pattern similar to a chain link fence. Why grill
>> > manufacturers don't use a diamond pattern for their grill grates is
> beyond
>> > me. Everybody wants that diamond pattern on grilled meat, then they
> have
>> > to
>> > turn the steaks and cook them to long on each side to get it.
>> > Place your meat on the broiler pan and place the hot diamond grate on
> top.
>> > When you flip the meat, flip the grate. The result is a steak that
>> > appears
>> > to have been grilled outdoors.
>>
>>
>> I've got one of these, which works nicely for the diamond pattern:
>> http://www.bedbathandbeyond.com/prod...1&SKU=13844518
>>
>> I only used it that way once because of the spattered grease, but it DOES
>> work, and it's a nice solid product. The other side's flat, for pancakes.
>> And, it's perfect for defrosting frozen food. Remember the TV ads for the
>> "miracle aluminum thing that defrosts food in no time at all"? That was
> just
>> a useless hunk of aluminum. This is a hunk with more than one purpose.
>>
>>
> A diamond pattern steel grate does not look like that, it looks like this.
> http://click-onsource.com/metals/images/grate2.gif
> To get a diamond pattern on meat with the product you posted, you'd have
> to
> turn the meat after 5 min. by 45 degrees and cook it 5 more min. If I
> want
> to cook a steak 5 min. on each side I can't get this device to put a
> caramelized diamond pattern on it. You'd get that device at Bed Bath and
> Beyond, the one I'm talking about comes from the nearest Welder and he
> uses
> the welder to cut steak sized hunks off of a huge piece of diamond grate.
> In essence this grate is being used as a branding iron, to brand the
> steaks
> with a traditional grill diamond pattern while it's in the broiler, not on
> top of a burner.

That's all very nice. But, nobody eats the pattern, so I think most people
probably just want the steak cooked to their liking.