| If "Do I look fat in this?" is the most dangerous question | | | | Here's the million dollar answer that'll save you (and |
| to answer when asked by the love of your life, what | | | | your) face: Barbecue is cooking meat low and slow. |
| would be the most dangerous question to answer if | | | | Remember those three sweet words, "Low and |
| asked by your barbecue star? | | | | Slow." That's the phrase that'll save your hide and your |
| Clue #1 - Has nothing to do with body image. | | | | pride. What exactly does "low and slow" mean? Low |
| Clue #2 - Has everything to do with self-image | | | | and slow means to cook meat over an open fire set |
| Clue #3 - Seems completely harmless to answer | | | | up for low heat for a long, long, time enough to play a |
| Oh, what could it be ... Give up? | | | | round of golf, wash the car, dog or clean out the |
| The most dangerous question to answer is .... | | | | garage, long kind of time. |
| "What's Barbecue?" | | | | Barbecue is building the perfect fire and setting the |
| Why is this such a dangerous question? Because if | | | | conditions just right to get the perfect low cooking |
| you don't actually know the answer, you might THINK | | | | temperature (200-300 degrees F, depending on the cut |
| you know and answer something like, "Barbecue is | | | | of meat). Barbecue is stoking that fire from dawn until |
| when you grill burgers on your backyard barbecue." | | | | dusk when your perfectly marinated, mopped and |
| (Loud buzzer) Wrong. | | | | basted piece of meat begins to fall right off its bones. |
| Now you've done it. You've just upset Old Smoky and | | | | Now that's barbecue. |
| now he's set to rip you a new nugget of knowledge. | | | | So the next time you find yourself cornered by a |
| Dare to use words like "grill" and "burgers" while talking | | | | barbecue pro, self-professed or otherwise, and that |
| about barbecuing in the presence of a barbecue guru, | | | | most dangerous question gets asked, you'll know how |
| and you are done for. You might as well answer "Do I | | | | to answer: Barbecue is cooking meat low and slow. |
| look fat in this?" with "Yeah, actually. You could lose a | | | | (You're all on your own for the other question!) |
| few," and do yourself in quick. | | | | Happy grillin'! |