Why are flare-ups while cooking on a gas grill bad?

I enjoy grilling burgers, steaks, and chicken on my grill. All the grilling tips say to avoid flareups. I look at it like: flare-ups are like cooking over an open fire and better?

What are the negative effects of flare-ups? Asked by Kamic 60 months ago Similar questions: flare ups cooking gas grill Food & Drink > Cooking.

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Flare ups are ok, IF you can deal with the consequences This is pretty much just my opinion, but I think that there four issues to consider with Flare-ups. First is the safety issue, your grill might be situated in a fairly good place, but there are a lot of people cooking under porch roofs and low hanging trees and the like. Also in Australia you have to be really careful with an open flame in the dry times of the year, one small spark can carry quite a ways and start a real big fire.

But the bigger, and probably more important issue is when you have a flare-up, you are no longer in control of the cooking process. You've got your coals down to a nice glow, or your gas is set to just the right notch, and you know that your steak will be perfectly done in about 10 mins. Then a big old blob of grease falls in and you have flames jetting all out and around your meat, and now where are you?

Maybe still 10 mins away, or is it more like 6 now? Also important, it makes it hard to reproduce your cooking. One day you will have a flare up and your stakes come out perfect, and the next time, they are too charred or under done.

This can be a bit awkward when you have your mates over and they have a few beers in them and your manhood is on the line, OR you are a self professed grilling expert trying to convince people that YOUR recipes are the best ever ;)Finally there is the actual taste issue, I like my meat to be pretty seared on the outside, and red in the center, so I have experimented with hot grills and flareups a bit. In my experience, once and a while the flareup leaves behind this rather unpleasant sort of chemically tasting char or smoke on the meat. I don't like this, and so I too avoid flareups now.So there those are my reasons for avoiding flareups, If you are safe with fire, don't mind a bit of variance in your food, and don't mind the char taste, then there is nothing wrong with flare ups, but by and large, I'd say the majority of people will have an issue with one of these points, so it's safe to advise to generally avoid flareups.Cheers.

Sources: My opinion .

You can control flare upsWith flare ups you can have a real problem with consistency of cooking. Flare ups can make it so that the outside of your food becomes charred while the middle doesn't cook well at all. With most gas grills now you can actually buy a part called a heat plate that sits over your burners to stop the grease from dripping on them, the cause of most flare ups.

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