mind your p’s and (bb)q’s.

Grilling is a great, energy saving alternative to using your oven in warm weather, but is it harmful to the atmosphere to burn charcoal and wood?What about gas grills?Both charcoal and wood burn dirty, producing tiny soot particles that pollute the air.Lump charcoal, made from charred wood, may add flavor, but it plus contributes to deforestation, and its inefficient kilning process adds loads of greenhouse gases to the atmosphere. Charcoal briquettes do have the benefit of being made partly from sawdust (a good use of waste wood),

but may additionally contain coal dust, starch, sodium nitrate, limestone, and borax. Yikes!Gas and propane grills burn much cleaner, but aren’t totally free and clear.In the end, it’s electric (boogie oogie oogie) that wins the clean air prize at the BBQ cook-off.Electric grills release 99% less carbon monoxide and 91% less carbon dioxide than charcoal.Summer just wouldn’t be summer without the smell of a fired-up grill, but construct certain you’re cooking up food, not air pollution.

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