Let’s first just cut to the chase:
Oh, hell no — you can have my awesome new Weber gas grill when pry it from my cold dead hands.
We “climate destroyers” can’t seem to do anything without the climate scolds trying to suck the fun out of every bit of life — either by attempting to guilt-shame us, or by shoving their “climate-friendly” alternatives down our throats.
Memorial Day weekend presented a perfect opportunity for the ever-pretentious climate catastrophizers of taxpayer-supported PBS to press Americans to kick their “fossil fuel grills” to the curb in favor of “climate-friendly” electric grills.
Again, in my climate-destroying [ahem] world, that just ain’t gonna happen. No way, no how.
Anyway, NPR “Climate Desk” correspondent Jeff Brady wrote:
Electric grills are a climate-friendly option to fossil fuel grills. Summer grilling usually starts with filling a propane tank or buying a bag of charcoal briquettes. But some people are ditching these fuels for a more climate-friendly electric grill.
Goody gumdrops for those “some people.”
On the other hand, I will stick to grilling — either on my gas grill or my Weber Kettle, and if I’m hungry for smoked brisket, I’ll fire up the wood-chip-fueled smoker, thank you very much.
Brady continued:
Just before dinner recently, Stoio Kachev wheeled his electric grill across his family’s backyard patio to an electrical outlet, plugged it in and hit the power button.
“You can choose what temperature you want,” Kachev says, setting it to 500 degrees Fahrenheit on the digital display. “So you see it’s at 152 now and it’ll take about 15 minutes to get to 500.”
On the menu are two family favorites. “We are making some Bulgarian short ribs, and we’re going to make some Vietnamese pork belly,” says Doanh Nghiem. She and Kachev say convenience is the main reason they switched to an electric grill.
Awesome. Thing is, I can make every one of above — and make it far tastier — on one of my grills or in my smoker.
Brady smugly persisted, writing:
Switching from a fossil fuel-burning device to an electric one — called electrification — is a key climate solution, especially as they are powered by electricity generated from an increasingly cleaner grid that uses renewable energy instead of fossil fuels.
While I don’t know Jeff Brady from Adam, I can envision this guy taking his family out for a picnic, spreading a blanket on the ground at a windmill farm somewhere, and listening to the soothing whir of the fossil-defying blades as they slowly spin above him and his family’s heads.
Meanwhile, research data published by Statista in September 2024 shows the results of a survey conducted by the Hearth, Patio & Barbecue Association (HPBA).
Survey participants were asked which types of grills they owned. Roughly 61 percent of respondents indicated ownership of a gas grill, while just 10 percent said they owned electric grills.
Yet Brady tried to make it seem like electric grills are taking the U.S. by storm:
Kenyon [brand grills] says its electric grill sales have increased more than 40% in the past three years. Current Backyard doesn’t disclose sales, but the company is expanding its line with an electric griddle and pizza oven market.
Even worse, Brady admitted he initially got his facts wrong in a “correction” note published the same day: “This story has been updated to reflect the fact that charcoal briquettes are not a fossil fuel,” he wrote. Blah, blah, blah.
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Incidentally, I also have a griddle for my Weber, and I’ll end with this:
I can make smash burgers and New York strip steaks that are to die for, Mr. Brady, while you likely enjoy your soy or tofu burgers, climate-friendly-prepared on your electric grill.
Meanwhile, PBS continues to flush your tax dollars down the left-wing (climate-friendly) toilet.
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