Why does food cooked on a grill (or barbecue, the thing with the charcoal) have it’s own “grill” taste?

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Why does food cooked on a grill (or barbecue, the thing with the charcoal) have it’s own “grill” taste?

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Anonymous 0 Comments

As things like charcoal and wood burn, they don’t burn fully, so a little bit of those materials rise up in the smoke and get absorbed by your meats, changing the flavor slightly.

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Anonymous 0 Comments

some flavor is comming from the charcoal that is cooking it, and lots of the flavor comes from juices and fats dripping out of the food, burning on the fuel and the smoke comming up to flavor them. propane grills still have that grill taste without charcoal, just less.