Are lava rocks necessary when using a gas grill?!
Are lava rocks necessary when using a gas grill?
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Answers:
What they do is spread the heat and catch the drippings and thus do cooking more like charcoal. Depending on the shape of the flame bar, without the lava rocks, broiling may be very uneven.
um... absolutely NOT!!!
just gas and food man
mope...im not wuite sure how you would get lava rocks, but food cooked with them would probabley not be safe to eat!
No you don't have to have them. It is better to have though.
They get hot and spread out the heat from just over the burner, the grease from your food goes onto them and vapourizes at little nicer than landing on the burner (where it smokes like mad and gums up the burner).
Once the rocks are hot you can turn down the burner a little and still have good heat from the rocks making it so you use a little less gas (get another couple of uses out of a tank, or just save a little money).
I use the hot rocks to keep things warm after turning off the burner and while serving if I don't distribute everything at once.
I don't have lava rock in my grill, just a protective metal 'plate' that prevents grease from dropping on the flame vents.
It works just like a grill is supposed to work!
Some gas grills are designed to be used with lava rocks as diffusers and others use other means of protecting the burner itself. If yours has a mesh screen and the burner under the grate that you cook on you should use rocks. If there's a solid metal sheet between the grate and the burner then rocks aren't necessary.