Crosshatch Grill Marks

I’m always irritated by those pictures in hotel elevators showing pieces of grilled meat or fish with a perfect crosshatch pattern lightly charred into the surface. I’ve been on enough photo shoots to know that those markings are burned in with a hot iron rod. But I have to admit that that square grid is attractive. To pull it off, you need a grill with a rack made of heavy iron instead of he more typical thick wire found on most home barbecues. Second, you need to give the first side of whatever it is you’re grilling a 90 degree turn halfway through the grilling of that side.