Why are flare-ups while cooking on a gas grill bad?”
This is pretty much just my opinion, but I think that there four issues to consider with Flare-ups. First is the safety issue, your grill might be situated in a fairly good place, but there are a lot of people cooking under porch roofs and low hanging trees and the like. Also in Australia you have to be really careful with an open flame in the dry times of the year, one small spark can carry quite a ways and start a real big fire. But the bigger, and probably more important issue is when you have a flare-up, you are no longer in control of the cooking process. You’ve got your coals down to a nice glow, or your gas is set to just the right notch, and you know that your steak will be perfectly done in about 10 mins. Then a big old blob of grease falls in and you have flames jetting all out and around your meat, and now where are you? Maybe still 10 mins away, or is it more like 6 now? Also important, it makes it hard to reproduce your cooking. One day you will have a flare up and your st
