the.com/grilling
Cooking meat over fire while performing masculinity for an audience of lawn chairs.
means To cook food directly over high, radiant heat — or, in slang, to interrogate someone relentlessly with pointed questions.
from Traces back to the Old French word 'graille' or 'gril,' meaning a grated iron cooking surface, itself descended from Latin 'craticula,' a little wickerwork or grating — the ancestor of our word 'grate' too. The cooking sense came first; the interrogation sense ('grilling someone') showed up later as slang, likely because relentless questioning feels like being held over the coals — slowly, uncomfortably, and with no escape until you're done.
- Maillard reaction
- That crust is a chemical reaction, not magic
- grill vs barbecue
- grilling is fast and hot, barbecue is slow and smoky
- global habit
- nearly every culture has its own skewer tradition
- flare-ups
- mostly caused by dripping fat igniting, not your skill