MMMM... Fire Grilled Goodness

Hmm Fire Grilled Goodness!

Well we have finally done it. I am now the proud owner of a fine piece of fossil fuel burning, green house gas producing, red meat cooking stainless steel beauty! We finally went out and after much dickering and much pondering and dreaming, I went out and purchased a shiny new grill! (insert some manly grunting sounds, cases of beer and big juicy steaks here!)

So there I am standing at my local home improvement super center (aka the store for boys who finally have some responsibility and need special toys called tools) staring longingly at all the radiant, shimmering metal, visions of BBQ greatness playing like the latest summer blockbuster. I stare longingly at the huge monstrosity they have prominently displayed, you know the one I am talking about, the one with 8 control knobs, side burners enough to rival a jet engine afterburner, insulated sinks, integrated smoker, drawers, and cabinets enough to hold a midget chef, side shelves, and integrated keggerator with the busty Swedish serving wench! My wife elbows me in the ribs saying "Yeah right...You are not going to get to keep that Swedish beer serving wench thats only a marketing ploy. Oh yeah and if you want that grill you better get off your butt and invent something that makes us really really rich, so I can hire Vin Diesel as our pool boy!"

Sadly i return from my momentary lapse of reason (and dreams of a a Swedish beer serving wench and a midget chef serving us <- I did say US honey!) and started to look at other fine grilling appliances. Of course the bright shiny allure of the stainless steel grills called to me like a siren song, and before long visions of perfectly grill marked ribs and steaks started to float in front of my eyes. Of course the options presented were almost too much to handle. Rotisseries, side burners, stinless steel cabinets, digital thermometers... where to begin?? Well of course as my wife stood there occasionally rolling her eyes, I decided that I would only be able to decide by looking under the hood on each grill, turning knobs and all but pretending to grill for a huge party. Thankfully, she has gotten used to my enthusiasm for occasions such as these, and humored me. She probably figures its payback for all those times I get to wait for her to decide which pair of black shoes looks better.

Finally I reach my decision. I select a fine stainless steel grill, and of course my luck runs true to form. Our local home improvment super bonanza center does not have any of the particular model avaliable and readily assembled. Of course by this time I am determined to not let this issue bother me. Despite the sales man's protests that assembly is free, and if i come back tommorow they will have another model assembled and ready to sell me, I must have this grill today! Grill fever had set in and I by gosh was going to have my grill today!

Thankfully, I prevailed, and as this post alludes, I now am the proud owner of a new grill... granted it is a completely unassembled gill, but it is mine. Of course assembling the grill mght be a story for a later post, but we shall see.