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Yeti Christy: Spring Challenge - Learn to Grill in the Winter Yeti Adam: A Rethinking of Your Grill |
Spring Challenge: Learn to Grill in the Winter Cute commercial: Bear wanders into Home Depot, gets geared up for summer. Once sufficiently geared, he turns human (again). While I love the hibernation theme, shaking off the winter funk in favor of spring renewal, the part I didn’t get was the grill. Why has the grill been in hibernation all winter? Doesn’t he know that it’s the grill that sustains us Yetis? Clearly he’s not a winter-grilling Yeti like us. Nor is anyone at the advertising agency that birthed that commercial. That’s okay, we understand. We’ll cut you some slack for winterizing your grill. You probably paid good money for that grill, and don’t want to subject it to the likes of freezing rain, snow, sleet or wind. But, I’ll challenge you to consider that maybe your grill is built for winter. Yes, your grill may be tough enough to handle it! And, you may actually enjoy visiting your favorite summer friend throughout the winter to remind you just why food tastes so good. Yes, we grill in the winter. In fact, we have used the same Char-Broil grill for 12 years, year-round. Granted, winters just northwest of Detroit aren’t as harsh as those in Escanaba, but our grill was punished enough to prove that it can handle it. With no grill cover. Is that grill abuse? Maybe, but our grill is tough. It took every single winter with a smile. Sure, the igniter got finicky, and we started lighting it by hand. Yes, the paint peeled from the frame. But, wow! The steak. The salmon. The veggies. Yum. Most $300 gas grills are pampered and stored for the winter, and, yet, they still fail after 10 years. The burners go. The igniter completely fails. Most likely, the frame gives way before any of the operational parts even show wear. So, I challenge you… if your grill lasts 10 years being pampered, and mine lasted 12 years happy grilling in the winter snow, why not give winter grilling a try? Don’t pamper your grill, give it the thrill of being enjoyed all year. You know it gets lonely, all covered up in the garage, don’t you? Can’t you hear it calling? Can’t you hear the sigh of relief when you drag it out in the Spring and dust it off? Grilling season has started. Now is the time to make the promise to your grill that you won’t make it hibernate this winter. You have a whole summer to make it up to your grill. Hang out here and pick up some extra recipes. Read up on the things you don’t have to do to accommodate winter grilling. (There’s no extra work involved!) Get the guts to not put your grill away this Fall. Come on! Be a winter-grilling Yeti! Your grill will love you for it. Christy Brewer Chief Editorial Yeti |
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A Welcome Back to Summer Grillers: One of the biggest signs that the grills are coming out of hibernation has been the appearance of one vegetable within grocery store produce sections. This one vegetable has come to christen the start of the summer grilling season. That vegetable is corn on the cob. This is not the prepackaged de-husked corn that one can find year round. This is corn on the cob, in the husk, and in a bin somewhere in the produce section. There has been no other vegetable that has signified that the summer grilling season has descended upon the masses. What an awesome responsibility for that one vegetable. With that said, welcome back to those who have finally taken the grills out of hibernation! Welcome back to the fold of grilling. As your grills have been sitting in hibernation for the past winter season, we winter grillers have been practicing. We have been perfecting those ribs throughout the winter snow, we have been refining the burger through the chill of January, and we have been enjoying the sweet char that only a grill can produce for the past 6 months. We hold nothing against people who only choose to grill throughout the summer months. We welcome them back into the grilling community. We enjoy the company and the eagerness that they bring to grilling. Welcome back summer grillers! Grand Yeti: Adam |
