Goedjn wrote:
> On 24 Feb 2005 06:38:36 -0800, "Sheldon" > wrote:
>
> >
> wrote:
> >> Can anyone give me advice on a reasonably priced
> >> outdoor built-in grill unit? I'd like to build
> >> myself a custom outdoor kitchen, and I'd like to
> >> keep the price of a fairly nice and large main
> >> cook surface to about $1000 or less. I was looking
> >> for LP but natural will work too.
> >>
> >> I know these units get expensive, but I also know
> >> that I don't think most of them are worth it, they
> >> are just charging a large luxury premium for these
> >> types of things.
>
> When I was a wee lad, I once worked on a small dock,
> where, among other things we sold cooked crab.
>
> The WAY we cooked crab was to build a 4x4x8'
> stainless steel box, set down on cinderblocks,
> with ledges inside to hold up an expanded-steel
> mesh. We'd dump 10 gallons of seawater into the
> bottom of the thing, dump 100-400 pounds of
> crab in on top, and then shove a burner taken
> out of someone's home furnace under the whole thing,
> and drip the fuel-line into a can of deisel fuel.
>
> I mention this to illustrate the point that
> cooking equipment isn't particularly complicated.
>
> You need a gas supply, a stainless steel
> box with a cover, drains, and air-holes,
> one or more valves, and an array of replacement
> burners, and something to hold the food up
> and away from the burners.
>
> If you want something that will also look pretty,
> then you also need someone who knows how
> to cut and weld stainless.
This has what to do with grilling... and you inserted my attribution
without anything I wrote... your momma has crabs.
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