In Gary Wiviott’s Low & Slow barbecue book, he recommends to follow the KISS principle (Keep It Simple Stupid).
For the last year I’ve been trying to master the art of smoking on my off-set grill. I thought I knew what I was doing. After reading the first few chapters of Gary’s book, I realized I was working way to hard and I wasn’t really smoking our food. I was definitely smoking the food, but not truly cooking the food low and slow.
Gary’s instructions boil down to learning how to use your grill and then starting to experiment. I was looking for the silver bullet of grilling, a trick or shortcut. Cooking low and slow requires a lot of trial and error and patience.
Following Gary’s instructions of keeping it simple and experimenting, I think I grilled the best chicken I have ever grilled over Memorial weekend. From the way our friends devoured the chicken, I think they’d agree.
While experimenting with the grill, I started thinking about a lot of what I do and realized if I wanted to master the art of grilling and other interests in my life I really needed to start keeping things simple. I’ve made my life complicated. I have so many interests and spread my attention so thin, I’ve become a master of nothing. I’m realizing I need to follow my passions, learn more and start doing.
It’s scary and exiting. Stay tuned for what comes next.