{"id":19399,"date":"2018-02-12T08:44:26","date_gmt":"2018-02-12T14:44:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=19399"},"modified":"2018-02-11T16:06:04","modified_gmt":"2018-02-11T22:06:04","slug":"grilling-tips-from-brian-j","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2018\/02\/12\/grilling-tips-from-brian-j\/","title":{"rendered":"Grilling Tips from Brian J."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As you know, gentle reader, the Internet and newspapers last year wrote a flurry of articles&#8211;well, someone wrote <em>an<\/em> article, and the rest of the twenty-three-year-olds in professional journalism copied it&#8211;about the dangers of using wire brushes to clean your barbecue grill.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/grilling1.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>The story goes that a bit of the wire from the brush might fall out, stick to your grill, get stuck in your meat, you might eat it, and it might upset the stomach of a shark that eats you or something.<\/p>\n<p>Gentle reader, I heartily agree with everything I read on the Internet, and don&#8217;t think you should use a grill brush to clean your grill!<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/grilling2.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Instead, use steel wool.  The smaller metal fibers will have a more pleasant mouthfeel and texture when they get stuck in that meat that the Internet thinks you shouldn&#8217;t be eating anyway since it takes fifty acres of land better suited to sustenance-level farming with no herbicides and only cutesy little signs with emoji to keep the animals away to produce four ounces of round steak.  Or so I read on the Internet when previewing this post.<\/p>\n<p>A little bit of rust on the steel wool will also provide a little bit of <em>umami<\/em>&#8211;without the urban legendary dangers of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/MSG\" target=\"_new\">Madison Square Garden<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As you know, gentle reader, the Internet and newspapers last year wrote a flurry of articles&#8211;well, someone wrote an article, and the rest of the twenty-three-year-olds in professional journalism copied it&#8211;about the dangers of using wire brushes to clean your barbecue grill. The story goes that a bit of the wire from the brush might [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19399"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19399\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19400,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19399\/revisions\/19400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}