I am a big fan of cooking. I have cooked all my life. There is something special about being in the kitchen and creating. Which, now that I think about it, also tells me why I have always loved to draw and why I love to build things. There’s something special about putting your hands to work and getting to see what they have created.
When it comes to food, I love the smells, the flavors, the colors, the preparation, and everything about it. You get to use so many different tools, you get to use so many different products, and you get to see so many variations in time on how long one things takes to make over another.
Because of all the differentiation that is seen in cooking, I never get tired of it. It’s not boring, it’s not monotonous, and it’s not dull. For instance, you can cook the same piece of meat ten different ways.
You can fry the meat, you can grill the meat, you can smoke the meat, you can slow roast the meat, you can broil the meat, you can steam the meat, you can cook the meat in an oven, on a stovetop, or even on a pizza maker.
But there is one cooking tool that I could not go without. That is my charcoal grill. With this grill, I can cook foods over direct heat in a very fast period of time. I can cook foods over indirect heat in a very slow period of time. And I can cook foods anywhere in between.
Thankfully, cardboard boxes allowed me to purchase this grill online and have it sent directly to me. If it weren’t for the supplies in these cardboard boxes, many parts of the grill could have been damaged. But, when it came to my grill, all parts were completely unharmed and assembly was a breeze.
And since it’s a charcoal grill that was shipped, I was able to use some of the cheap moving supplies as a charcoal starter. I just placed the material under my charcoal chimney and lit them on fire. The charcoal fires right up and makes for a quick prep time. I also still use the cardboard box the grill came in to store my bags of charcoal. They keep the bags upright and catch the coals if the bags decide they want to fall over.
