Any suggestions?
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2007-05-26 10:43:50 · 8 answers · asked by rlopez4covert 1 in Food & Drink ➔ Cooking & Recipes
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.
2007-05-26 10:49:19 · answer #1 · answered by Mike1942f 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Gas grills with "flame tamers" (metal wedges) or flanges as I call them will never be as good as grills with lava rocks. Rocks hold the heat and the flavor. Eventually grease builds up on those stupid flanges and you have to scrape it off or you get a fire. With the rocks you just turn them over and burn it off. I've got a 26-year-old Char broil 5000 that has a 12 inch long burner that is shot -- falling apart, full of holes. Only burner I can find that might work is 15 inches long. It will fit in the grill and hook up OK I think but Char broil says don't try it just buy a new grill -- aka flanges! Ugh. Does anyone have an opinion if the 15 inch burner would work OK?
2016-05-18 05:02:46 · answer #2 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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.
2007-05-26 15:27:34 · answer #3 · answered by Jimi Z 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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.
2007-05-26 10:54:13 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
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!
2007-05-26 10:56:21 · answer #5 · answered by tropical 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
mope...im not wuite sure how you would get lava rocks, but food cooked with them would probabley not be safe to eat!
2007-05-26 10:51:08 · answer #6 · answered by sydgoldkid 4 · 0⤊ 3⤋
just gas and food man
2007-05-26 10:48:58 · answer #7 · answered by infoman89032 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
um... absolutely NOT!!!
2007-05-26 10:47:00 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋