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For the first decade or so of my “adult” life (if we can call the years following college adult), I was a diehard charcoal grill devotee, even looking at gas grills with a bit of judgment, I must admit. The advent of children changed things, though, because I just didn’t have the 15 or 20 minutes to sit around waiting for the coals to reach cooking temperature before I could even start cooking, nor did I have the luxury of low and slow grilling anymore.
With the ever-growing need for more efficiency in our lives, in 2016 I took what I thought was the proverbial plunge and bought a gas grill. And I loved it. The food still tasted great, I could have the thing lit in seconds, and heated in just a couple of minutes, so I really never looked back. My gas grill had solved problem #1 of the charcoal grill: heating time.