Grillin' Season

With no rain in the forecast (at least during the dinner hour), we decided to put our new Kuuma grill through its paces tonight.  We actually bought the grill during the Seattle Boat Show (yes, the one in January), but with the weather what it's been here lately (see previous post), we never bothered to install it until this weekend.

And I'm sorry we waited!

The grill is a replacement of the old, small kettle-style Magma grill with an insanely hot handle (really, please tell me who designs a grill handle that can't be touched without a hot pad) that came with the boat.  It worked fine, but many-a bun was lost into the drink because of the poor grill design.  Picture a round grill rack suspended from the stern rail out over the water with no edges to keep wayward buns (or anything else) from taking a flying leap. As you can see above, our new, shiny grill doesn't have that problem.

I also wanted to try out these new Fire Wire Flexible Grilling Skewers that I stumbled across at Williams-Sonoma the other day.  I came thiiis close to buying the Star Wars Pancake Mold set too, because doesn't everyone need a Yoda-shaped breakfast treat to start the day off right?  Anyway, I digress.  Instead of a rigid skewer, these guys are flexible stainless steel cables.  After skewering your meats or veggies, you just curl them up and stick them right into a Ziploc bag with the marinade and pop in the fridge.  You can see the little tails hanging out in the picture above, which provide a handle for easy flipping and rearranging.  And don't fret about meat-juice contamination... you stick the tail over the flame for a bit to kill any bugs before draping it outside where it cools off rapidly.  Neat.  I'd say that both the grill and the skewers were a hit.