Jul 04 2009
4th of July Tip of the Day: How to Grill Hamburgers and Hot Dogs
Here is some grilling advice for beginners. Now go out and have a barbecue.
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Ooh, also. Be patient with the lighter fluid. Adding more lighter fluid mid-flame can cool down the coals, which is counterproductive.
Good luck and be safe! There are drunken drivers about.
So. We’ve got a carful of indians, access to their illegal fireworks, and a private-property beach to blow up.
If I don’t show up tomorrow, feel free to pay your respects to my memory.
😀
And you know one of the world’s leading daredevils, Robbie Knievel. Should be a wild night. 🙂
Well, he wasn’t coming. Wrong side of the family (he’s a friend of my dad’s). Bet they’re partying like hell wherever the two of them are at, though.
Also? I’m back alive, after half a dozen close calls. Translate ‘close calls’ to ‘idiot teenagers who decided fifteen feet in front of us is not too close to blow up various firework-bombs’. Or to ‘roman candles aimed the wrong way by accident’. The neighbors 100 feet down (on their own private section of beach) must have thought we were at war, what with all the fireworks landing and blowing up among them.