Smoking your own ribs as easy as grilling them

Great if you use charcoal, but unfeasible if you have a gas grill. With a 3 1/2 hour cooking time, I pay ¥3000 for 5 L or 11 pounds of gas. I had to buy the tank and it takes a week for the company to pick it up, fill it, and drop it off. In the States, it costs ¥2000 for 10 L or 20 pounds of gas, and you can exchange a spent tank pretty at any DIY store and some gas stations.

I haven't tried it yet, but I will use a strong cardboard moving box, surround it with foil on the inside, and put a plate of hot coals under a plate of wood chips. Videos are there if your interested.

Japanese grills are typically small rectangular with no cover making it impossible to smoke ribs. To properly smoke ribs, you need a grill large enough to hold a whole rack of ribs from one end to the other over indirect heat.

Then you need lots of smoke which needs to trapped by closing the grill's cover. In Japan, a circular shaped Weber Grill is your best bet. At least it holds all that smoke. Plus they're great for chicken and steak, not just ribs.

This is very dificult for the customer for ribs because you must wait more than 3 hours after you order.

Grilled meat is delicious and many of us love it. Unfortunately grilling meat actually produces potent carcinogens. In other words the high heat of grilling reacts with proteins in meat and creates heterocylic amines, which is linked to cancer. Also another form of cancer-causing agents are created when the juices from the meat drip and hit the heat source. They then rise in smoke and can stick to the meat. In the end many love the way meat taste so we won't deprive ourselves of this. Therefore we continue to eat meat because we also need the protein provided in the meat.

I understand Nova the risks of eating like this, but couldn't you say this has more to do with DNA than anything else?

Grilled meat is delicious and many of us love it. Unfortunately grilling meat actually produces potent carcinogens.

And every once in a while someone goes man-down, flopping on the floor after eating some bad Fugu. . . . or choking to death on mochi. Fire up those grills everyone, live a little.