Who cares? Live fire cooking is live fire cooking.
VRose_270
Tbh things just get easier if you use bbq as a catch-all for anything involving a flame outdoors. It’s a word that changes meaning wildly depending on the culture it’s being used in.
elguaco6
Homemade burgers nothing wrong with that at all. Quit trying to gate keep food. It’s fuckin stupid.
jchesticals
Imagine gatekeeping a word used differently in tons of regions globally. What a circle jerk
greenhannibal
Where I am that is precisely what most people mean by BBQ. If someone went on about how it wasn’t BBQ they’d be considered pretty weird tbh.
Top-Cupcake4775
It’s not barbecue unless it’s wild game you killed (bows or traps only) and butchered yourself and cooked with wood (no charcoal) over an actual pit that you dug in the ground and suspended over that pit by a framework of branches that were locally gathered (no ordering branches from Amazon).
TxBeerWorldwide
You smoke meats
whiteguyinchina411
Don’t go anywhere outside the US if this makes you upset…
brentemon
Bbq is used for everting where I live. Including the cooker. So my offset, kettle and gas grill are all “BBQs”
yellowirenut
Took a trip to Scotland last month. During the cab ride from the hotel to the airport the driver asked. “Genuine question for you. What’s the difference between a cookout, barbecue and grilling”
Told him grilling is hot and fast..burgers, hotdogs, some steaks. Barbecue is low and slow… takes some time to prepare and cook. A cookout is a gathering of friends, family and neighbors with grilling and or barbecue.
He then said “all those things are barbecue for us”
Irn Bru soda is tasty.
AltOnMain
I went to a work event once where a guy from the south spent most of the time complaining that he felt tricked and was disappointed the event was advertised as a bbq but there were just hamburgers and hotdogs.
Moosplauze
>BBQ (short for “barbecue”) is both a cooking method and a style of food, usually involving **slow-cooking meat over low heat with smoke**, often from wood or charcoal. It’s super popular in many parts of the world, especially in the southern United States.
>BBQ can also mean the event itself — like a backyard party where people grill or smoke food outside. The flavors are usually smoky, savory, sometimes spicy or sweet, depending on the rubs, sauces, and wood used.
>Some types of BBQ focus on **grilling** (hot and fast), but traditional “barbecue” usually means **low and slow** — like cooking ribs, brisket, pulled pork, or chicken over several hours.
I don’t use the term BBQ at all outside of reddit, because I live in Germany. Here we say “grillen” to anything that is put on the “Grill”, doesn’t matter if it’s fast and hot or low and slow. So I might use the term BBQ wrong when I’m on the internet, because I’m not used to use it at all. I mostly do hot and fast though, 2-3x per weeks burgers, 1-2 times per week pork neck steaks and belly and occasionally Rumpsteaks that I cut from Roastbeef. I want to do low and slow, but I lack the courage and time honestly, I hate waiting 10 hours and then realize it turned out bad…especially in front of guests.
flappyspoiler
I dont care what you call it as long as I get a plate.
BBQing hot dogs? Im in! Grilling steaks? Can I get one? Smoking some ribs? I will take half a rack.
Im too old and fat to argue over semantics. 😅
AwarenessGreat282
Don’t be a snob. We have enough of that with the stick-burners. What’s next, a propane grill isn’t a real grill?
Belerand317
Had no idea that people in this sub are so sensitive 😮
greendingler
I “corrected” someone one time about this and instantly felt like a giant douche canoe.
Nadsworth
Personally, I call that just grilling, but I’m aware of a thing called regional and cultural differences, and that it is okay that other people think differently than I.
twilight-actual
The etimology of the word, the Spanish took it from the Tiano language of the Caribbean, barbacoa, where it referred only to a slow and low method of cooking meat on a wood frame over coals to smoke and preserve.
neils_cum_rag
r/Gatekeeping would love this
ChefCroaker
This is a simple thing
A bbq = an outdoor event where grilled or smoked foods are served. You can also refer to a smoker this way but I’ve never heard that in person. Not dissimilar to a cookout.
Bbq = smoked meats cooked in a style drawing inspiration from the traditions of native and enslaved peoples in the americas. Typically pork or beef.
Bbq-ing = either grilling or smoking depending on region. Usually this just means live fire cooking to most people as they are not aware of the differences between methods.
Source: professional pitmaster for 5 years in the southern US.
larevacholerie
BBQ is abbreviated from Barbeque, an alternative spelling of Barbecue, the English version of Barbacoa – a platform of sticks, placed over a fire, that food is cooked on.
I’m sorry that _you_ have a colloquial definition of BBQ that’s different from your neighbors, but cooking hotdogs and hamburgers on a grill is not very divorced from that term.
Joltdead
I like to do my hotdogs at about 215 for 1.5 hours with apple wood.
DrArsone
Saying that shit in certain parts of Texas well get you shot.
ThomasC138
When I met my fiancé a few years ago she had been living in North Carolina only for a few months, and originally from California. Early on when we would be talking about dinner I would mention burgers or steaks for example, and she would often ask if I’m gonna barbecue them, I knew what she meant so I’d just say yes.
Over the years it’s funny how she now says grilling over barbecuing and has recently told me if she hears barbecue, then she expects some sauce to be involved.
Very much fine with whatever word being used though, context clues and all..
BadassSasquatch
BBQ is a noun. You eat it. You grill, cookout, not BBQ.
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Who cares? Live fire cooking is live fire cooking.
Tbh things just get easier if you use bbq as a catch-all for anything involving a flame outdoors. It’s a word that changes meaning wildly depending on the culture it’s being used in.
Homemade burgers nothing wrong with that at all. Quit trying to gate keep food. It’s fuckin stupid.
Imagine gatekeeping a word used differently in tons of regions globally. What a circle jerk
Where I am that is precisely what most people mean by BBQ. If someone went on about how it wasn’t BBQ they’d be considered pretty weird tbh.
It’s not barbecue unless it’s wild game you killed (bows or traps only) and butchered yourself and cooked with wood (no charcoal) over an actual pit that you dug in the ground and suspended over that pit by a framework of branches that were locally gathered (no ordering branches from Amazon).
You smoke meats
Don’t go anywhere outside the US if this makes you upset…
Bbq is used for everting where I live. Including the cooker. So my offset, kettle and gas grill are all “BBQs”
Took a trip to Scotland last month. During the cab ride from the hotel to the airport the driver asked. “Genuine question for you. What’s the difference between a cookout, barbecue and grilling”
Told him grilling is hot and fast..burgers, hotdogs, some steaks. Barbecue is low and slow… takes some time to prepare and cook. A cookout is a gathering of friends, family and neighbors with grilling and or barbecue.
He then said “all those things are barbecue for us”
Irn Bru soda is tasty.
I went to a work event once where a guy from the south spent most of the time complaining that he felt tricked and was disappointed the event was advertised as a bbq but there were just hamburgers and hotdogs.
>BBQ (short for “barbecue”) is both a cooking method and a style of food, usually involving **slow-cooking meat over low heat with smoke**, often from wood or charcoal. It’s super popular in many parts of the world, especially in the southern United States.
>BBQ can also mean the event itself — like a backyard party where people grill or smoke food outside. The flavors are usually smoky, savory, sometimes spicy or sweet, depending on the rubs, sauces, and wood used.
>Some types of BBQ focus on **grilling** (hot and fast), but traditional “barbecue” usually means **low and slow** — like cooking ribs, brisket, pulled pork, or chicken over several hours.
I don’t use the term BBQ at all outside of reddit, because I live in Germany. Here we say “grillen” to anything that is put on the “Grill”, doesn’t matter if it’s fast and hot or low and slow. So I might use the term BBQ wrong when I’m on the internet, because I’m not used to use it at all. I mostly do hot and fast though, 2-3x per weeks burgers, 1-2 times per week pork neck steaks and belly and occasionally Rumpsteaks that I cut from Roastbeef. I want to do low and slow, but I lack the courage and time honestly, I hate waiting 10 hours and then realize it turned out bad…especially in front of guests.
I dont care what you call it as long as I get a plate.
BBQing hot dogs? Im in! Grilling steaks? Can I get one? Smoking some ribs? I will take half a rack.
Im too old and fat to argue over semantics. 😅
Don’t be a snob. We have enough of that with the stick-burners. What’s next, a propane grill isn’t a real grill?
Had no idea that people in this sub are so sensitive 😮
I “corrected” someone one time about this and instantly felt like a giant douche canoe.
Personally, I call that just grilling, but I’m aware of a thing called regional and cultural differences, and that it is okay that other people think differently than I.
The etimology of the word, the Spanish took it from the Tiano language of the Caribbean, barbacoa, where it referred only to a slow and low method of cooking meat on a wood frame over coals to smoke and preserve.
r/Gatekeeping would love this
This is a simple thing
A bbq = an outdoor event where grilled or smoked foods are served. You can also refer to a smoker this way but I’ve never heard that in person. Not dissimilar to a cookout.
Bbq = smoked meats cooked in a style drawing inspiration from the traditions of native and enslaved peoples in the americas. Typically pork or beef.
Bbq-ing = either grilling or smoking depending on region. Usually this just means live fire cooking to most people as they are not aware of the differences between methods.
Source: professional pitmaster for 5 years in the southern US.
BBQ is abbreviated from Barbeque, an alternative spelling of Barbecue, the English version of Barbacoa – a platform of sticks, placed over a fire, that food is cooked on.
I’m sorry that _you_ have a colloquial definition of BBQ that’s different from your neighbors, but cooking hotdogs and hamburgers on a grill is not very divorced from that term.
I like to do my hotdogs at about 215 for 1.5 hours with apple wood.
Saying that shit in certain parts of Texas well get you shot.
When I met my fiancé a few years ago she had been living in North Carolina only for a few months, and originally from California. Early on when we would be talking about dinner I would mention burgers or steaks for example, and she would often ask if I’m gonna barbecue them, I knew what she meant so I’d just say yes.
Over the years it’s funny how she now says grilling over barbecuing and has recently told me if she hears barbecue, then she expects some sauce to be involved.
Very much fine with whatever word being used though, context clues and all..
BBQ is a noun. You eat it. You grill, cookout, not BBQ.
You can tell this guy is an uncultured American