Indirect

The fountain of youth, next week’s lottery numbers, and the cure for pattern baldness? Nope! Just the best way to grill just about everything from beer-butt to burgers.

Everyone knows how to grill a hamburger, hot dog or steak. You take the meat, throw it on the hot barbecue grill, turn it once or twice so it doesn’t burn (too much anyway), and then slap it on a plate, burger bun or hot dog roll and chow down.

WRONG!

Grilling is actually much more a refined culinary art than that. Sure, you put what you’re cooking on a hot grill, but the above method usually guarantees dry, tasteless meat, that almost always has a charred surface hidden somewhere. How many times have you hidden a charred burger or chicken breast with oodles of barbecue sauce, mustard or ketchup?