food arguments get weird.
Because food is incredibly personal.
People don’t just eat certain foods.
They attach memories to them.
They attach family traditions to them.
They remember how their parents cooked.
They remember backyard parties.
They remember somebody standing over a grill while everyone else was sitting around waiting.
So when someone says, “That’s not real grilling,” they may not literally be making a scientific statement about heat transfer.
They’re defending the way they learned to cook.
And charcoal has one thing gas can’t completely replicate
The ritual.
That’s
