My grill-glazed carrots suck

[Jonas-Switzerland]

"Madness is when you try the same thing, but expect different results" - - > Fair enough, but why then do all glazed carrot recipes similar? It must work for some!?

Today carrots brought me to my homer simpson moment: "Why doesn't mine look like that!?"

I did a weeknight cook on the kettle, and tried some "glazed carrot recipe". I tried a similar recipe once or twice before with similar results. Recipe calls for

• Prepping carrots
• Blanching them for 3-5 mins
• Cooling
• Tossing then in a salty, sugary marinade, leaving them in for approx 30mins
• Short medium heat direct grill.

Followed by a picture of carrots with a nice glaze on top.



Mine however, never have any of the marinade stuck on them. They come out with a dry, unpleasant surface.

It makes some sense to me. Carrots are mainly water. After the 30min rest, they still seem to be sweating and any marinade just glides off every time. If I wanted a glazed carrot, I would need to put some glaze on after a round of direct heat. But every recipe I find just acts like the marinade sticks to it? Am I missing something?

 

[DanHoo]

Sorry, I have no suggestions.

I dislike cooked carrots.

I'll eat cooked carrots if cut small in soup or stew, otherwise no thank you.

 

[Darryl - swazies]

It's cooking it on the grate if I had to guess.....I have made glazed carrots in a pan before and the results were outstanding.

 

[timothy]

It's cooking it on the grate if I had to guess.....I have made glazed carrots in a pan before and the results were outstanding.

^ This^^
On the grate, just EVO and a herb rub.

 

[Tim Campbell]

It's cooking it on the grate if I had to guess.....I have made glazed carrots in a pan before and the results were outstanding.

Same. I've had little to no luck glazing them on the grill.

 

[LMichaels]

Have never even thought of grilling carrots. I make wonderful glazed carrots though

 

[Brett-EDH]

boiled, then pan seared then glazed in that pan for a slight simmer. some things just don't bbq/grill well. butter, salt and honey with a splash of water.

 

[John K BBQ]

Carrots have a fair amount of natural sugar... if you want to grill them, maybe just try salt and some high heat oil such as avocado. Blanching first makes sense to me as well...

 

[Jonas-Switzerland]

boiled, then pan seared then glazed in that pan for a slight simmer. some things just don't bbq/grill well. butter, salt and honey with a splash of water.

I would almost agree, but when I google I find a bunch of "Easy delicious grilled carrot!!" recipes. And when I do them they kinda suck. They never come out nicely glazed, they all have an unpleasant dry surface.

The "easy" in the title is needling me.

Carrots have a fair amount of natural sugar... if you want to grill them, maybe just try salt and some high heat oil such as avocado. Blanching first makes sense to me as well...

True. I guess thats the reason why they went to charred almost instantly. That, and the coals were too close to the grate.

I saw another recipe which grills them over direct heat, and then glazes them over indirect heat. Which makes a lot more sense to me. That, and I believe too much IR heat just chars the outside. Next time I'm on the gas grill, I try it one last time and report back to you.

Its been ages since I glazed carrots in a pan. Maybe its time to revisit...

 

[ChuckO]

Here I was thinking I was state of art because I wash my carrots