Get Better Flavor from your Gas Grill

How to get Better Flavor from your Gas Grill!

I love cooking over a real fire and wood, but sometimes it’s easier to cook off a gas grill. But one thing you lose by not cooking over wood is that great flavor wood gives when grilling. Well, in this episode we’re showing you an easy trick to turn your gas grill into a smoker and get better flavored food when grilling.

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Kent Rollins
Chuck Wagon Cook, Grilling, Dutch Oven Cooking, Cowboy, Cast Iron

[Menead]

You should have a TV show. Your voice is very relaxing and fun to listen to. Keep being awesome, sir.

[nightopsever]

Little suggestion for my fellow gas grillers, or anyone in general: save your steak fat strips, and use them to grease the hot grates. Imparts a great flavor, helps clean the grids, and does a better job that any spray I've found.

[garyhorton]

As a Navy Vet I was really happy to your free shipping for our people serving in the Military. Anyone can fly a flag but when people back it up with their wallets it means so much more. God Bless America and May God Bless you!

[davidhoover]

I'll have to try this sometime when I need to cook fast. My wife and I have been cooking over charcoal with then add oak chunks for over 7 years or so in an original Weber. She loves it so much she even learned how to cook over charcoal and/or wood. She never had a medium rare steak either now she can't go back to well done. Everything you say is true I'll tell you what! lol!

[davidfoppe]

This is the BEST method I've seen for adding smoke flavor to a gas grill. If you want to avoid the flare up you can spray the oil on the meat instead of the grill

[johnsoncustomcarpentry]

Been using oak on beef brisket for years, one day I didn't have any oak soaked in water, so I cut some green oak threw it in the smoker and never looked back. Just gotta peel the bark off it. It's really acidic. Also juniper works really well with beef and pork. Thanks for the tips! God bless.

[wb]

Tried the lime juice marinate and did the mesquite gas grill hack yesterday. Awesome result ! Thanks Cowboy Ken !

[JCrook]

I do something similar. Using wood chips soak them and wrap in foil. poke some holes in the top of the foil and stick it right on top of the burner under the grate on one side. Cook as normal. Works like a champ.

[benlee]

Its so interesting how there's different cultures among Americans. I lived in Oklahoma for bout 5 years and moved up here to Illinois, everyone is so different.

[XX-uiwt]

i made your sparkling potatos yesterday for lunch with some sausage on the grill. they are awesome and everyone in my house loved them. I plan on making them more. thanks for the recipe

[williambagley]

I have a Weber Silver gas grille and I love it. I soak the wood chips and stick them in a little foil container and put them on the grate to get a good smoke flavor when grilling steak and chicken. It is so much more convenient than a charcoal grille. 😎

[elaineburch]

This man is genuine and authentic.
Love his videos. Always great instructions

[chrissherer]

I do the same type of thing with oak branches setting on the side of my 15 year old charbroil. I keep replacing the worn out parts with handmade parts. Even if I am just grilling asparagus or squash that smoke makes it right. Also, I once was horrified when a woman took a scouring pad to a skillet I got seasoned right. So I understand the passion for good cast iron. Love the videos and look forward to watching more of them.

[jeremiahhuntley]

Nut shells are good for smoking. Peanut shells are my favorite. I also like hickory and oak for most meats, and maple is hood for pork.

[SuperDave]

I've never owned a gas grill, but have taken fruit wood pellets in a pouch made from aluminum foil and punched full of holes to smoke flavor my chicken and turkey breasts .... don't have to worry about flare ups if it's in a pouch! ... Steak looked good Kent!!

[sickb]

I've been throwing down wood chunks in my gas grill for over 20 years. I've tried all different ways including this way. However...The fastest and simplest way is to use smaller thinner DRY chunks or thick slivers (have not tried pellets) and keep them on the outer edges adding more pieces as you go along. It just makes a little bit of ash which blows out of your gas grill easily. No soaking, no smoldering wood left on the grill, much time saved, and the results are just as good. If you don't like ash in your gas grill, putting wood chips or slivers in a foil pouch with holes in it works well too. You only need smoke for 3 to 8 minutes - the time it takes to grill a 1" thick steak. I can have great smoke tinged steaks on the table within 15-20 minutes upon firing up the gas grill using my technique. I use this method year round - rain, snow, heatwave.

[davidoswald]

Thank you for this video, I was just telling my lady friend that I prefer charcoal or wood grilling over propane any day because the flavor is so much better, but this gives me a great option for propane with flavor. I've spoken to some people about the flavor difference of propane vs the traditional BBQ, some people actually can't tell the difference - must have dead taste buds! Ha! Keep on grilling, Ken!

[bloozedaddy]

They make a long smoker box that fits under the grates and sits between two deflector shields. My other trick is I found out when I turn a grate sideways it fits perfectly down in the cavity of the grill just above the burners. I bought ceramic briquettes and place them on that grate and got a replacement grate to go back on top. This cuts down on flame ups and more importantly when fat or juices fall off your meat it vaporizes on the briquettes instead of just dropping to the bottom of the grill and becoming gunk. Much more natural smoke flavor.

[ShabaaUkelele]

I love the way he speaks. I can listen to him for hours!!♥️♥️♥️♥️

[allendodge]

Kent, thanks for the grilling tips. I will be trying this on my own gas grill. God bless you and yours. Keep the videos coming. Thanks.