Too hot to grill?


 
JSaus

JSaus

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We are expecting 100 degree temps the next few days and heat indexes around 115. Too hot for me to stand over a grill. Any of you going to brave it?
 
JSaus said:
We are expecting 100 degree temps the next few days and heat indexes around 115. Too hot for me to stand over a grill. Any of you going to brave it?
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during hot weather, we try to limit cooking indoors.

Our AC system does a good job of keeping the inside comfortable.

100 degrees is perfect grilling weather in my opinion.
 
We have hourly pricing from Communist Edison so I reset the HVAC system to 78, and to try and hold 56% or less humidity with "over cooling" turned off. Temps are supposed to exceed mod 90s today and (we're told) 100F actual tomorrow and Thursday. So I won't be cooking in the house at all. A grill or 2 will be pressed into service. Rather sweat a little outside than sweat my electric bill
 
Anything over 100 degrees you will not find me outside cooking on a hot grill. Slow cooker or instant pot inside maybe.
But for sure not outside. Love the sound of the a/c in the afternoon while enjoying a cold one.
 
I did my mowing and yard work earlier. It's hard breathing ( for me )outside with the high pollen and humidity.
Browning a pork roast in the slow cooker today but tomorrow firing up the SF for wings and pizza.
 
We are getting close to 100 degrees tomorrow, and I had already put rotisserie pork loin on the menu for tomorrow night. Still planning to do it. Since it is on the Genesis, I won't have to tend to it very much at all, so it shouldn't be too bad.
 
We had a miserable July, it was probably 100+ nearly everyday. I still managed to get some grillin' in. Just no Wings or Pizza that require hands on cooking
 
@Bob Erdman , you and others have it right. Outoors cooking beats all despite heat and humidity. Make some shade (umbrella?), use a fan, make it bearable. (I'm a bit weird. I still try to spend most of my waking hours outside regardless of temps -- though cold is MY nemesis.) It was near or at 100 plus humidity a few days ago when i smoked ribs. Prefer sitting out watching the WSM to inside with the tv. Most days all year I'm out at the grill to cook. I will add that it took some time to learn to sit and stew. 😅
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Missouri is pure misery this week. The dew points around KC have
topped 80 for all but a few hours each day since Saturday. Take the short
walk from my car to the front door and you break a very noticeable sweat.
We fired up the Genesis and cooked meals for the next few days.
It's very hot, and very humid, but I will still work on a couple of rehab grills
when I get home for an hour and a half. Nothing a cool shower won't remedy.
Glad I don't have the electric company putting the screws to me like Larry has.
74 degrees in my house year round.
 
Shade.......it's the only way....but it is never time to stop grilling.
It's like me saying up here I can't do that cause it's February and it's cold......
We get colder than -10F and then there is the wind...........
To be honest, I do slow it down a bit for about 4 weeks but generally it's because I am getting darn sick of all the snow and stuff.
 
Speaking of sweating and nearly passing out. Blake and my wife were out playing basketball, ball got away from Renee and went right into the under driveway culvert pipe. We spent over 2 solid hours in high humidity and sun, sun and just awful air quality, finally came in to house and needed to suck on inhaler thanks to the horrid air quality with smoke and such
 
JSaus said:
We are expecting 100 degree temps the next few days and heat indexes around 115. Too hot for me to stand over a grill. Any of you going to brave it?
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Don't do much standing over the grill unless I'm cooking a few burgers, dogs or the occasional steak.. When the weather is hot, I'd much rather cook outside than add the extra heat in the kitchen and often sit out and enjoy the nice smoky aromas wafting from the grill/smoker. If I lived in STL it'd be a different story though. 100+ in the high desert is a whole lot more comfortable than it is in that humid sweat locker. I'll take our normally single digit humidity when it's 100+ any time.
 
I can't complain. It's a little humid today by Cali standards, currently 78F, high of 88F with a breeze and broken clouds, all leftover from TS Hilary passing by.
 
Worked outside for 45 years. The only time we got shade was when we put the roof on. Loved coming home and sit out in the sun again while grilling and having some cold ones.
Now, three years into my retirement I avoid sitting out or grilling/smoking in direct sun.
Like was said upthread, You Gotta have shade.
 
DanHoo said:
I can't complain. It's a little humid today by Cali standards, currently 78F, high of 88F with a breeze and broken clouds, all leftover from TS Hilary passing by.
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Currently 71 here with 60% humidity, with an expected high of 78. We got a lot of precip overnight and the humidity is hanging on. Not bad at these temps but avoiding 100 degrees with high humidity is one good reason I'm a desert rat :)
 
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