Terminology question (BBQ, Grilling, Etc.)

[Attjack]

Help me fill in the blanks?

Cooking a steak on a kettle = Grilling
Smoking a roast = BBQ
Spit roasting a chicken at high heat = ?
Slow roasting on a verticle spit = ?
Roasting a whole lamb besides an open fire = ?
Yakitori = ?

What else?

[Jerod Broussard]

It's all Barbecue.

[glitchy]

I don’t care what it’s called it all sounds good. I draw the line at calling the use of a Foreman grill barbecuing

[Attjack]

Jerod Broussard says that's BBQ.

[Alan Brice]

I have a stand up outback n a counter top by the sink, before I understood charred coal. that was my excuse for grilling.

[Bkhuna]

Grilling
BBQ
Roasting
Roasting
Roasting
Grilling.

[Attjack]

Good answers.

[FireMan]

Yup! Cooked meat. Most of it sounds Fire Roasted, excellent in my camp.
I wonder how many of those Foreman grills have been sold over the years?

[JoeSousa]

According to Wikipedia over 100 million of them. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Foreman_Grill

[Attjack]

I've started to see George Foreman grill marketed as panini presses. Smart.

[FireMan]

Another piece of useless information, Ol’ George has made in excess of 250 million big ones of those grills. Hulk Hogan turned it down & told his agent to give it to his "other" client. The Hulkster chose the Meatball Maker.

[DavidNorcross]

To me it is all cooking. No matter what we call it thats what it is. We are all cooks no matter the method we use. We all just like to cook outside but we are all good cooks...at least based upon the photos. This is probably not the answer you were looking for but that is my thoughts.

[smokenoob]

Above my Pit grade…..

[Old Glory]

This nailed it with one minor change

Grilling
BBQ
Roasting
Roasting
Asado
Grilling.

[Bkhuna]

Asado is by definition roasting.

[rickgregory]

For a term to have meaning it has to be defined not only by what it IS, but by what it's NOT. If BBQ is simply grilling and roasting with no difference, then it doesnt really need to exist as a term.

As I understand it, the *American* version of the term is about low and slow cooking with smoke, usually over a fire source (vs in an oven). Grilling is different (hot and fast over a fire). Roasting, spit roasting etc can be done over a live fire but don't have to (i.e. oven roasting).

Of course life isnt that neat. There's open fire roasting and oven roasting and other qualifiers. But mostly I think BBQ, in the US vernacular, refers to what I underlined above.

[Old Glory]

I will also add that in the Boston area sausages and steak tips cooked hot and fast is also called Barbecue.

[rickgregory]

Right, but Boston is weird

More seriously, regions have their own idiosyncratic definitions that, to me, don't really apply outside of that region. Cincinnati chili isnt what most of us would consider 'real' chili, but they call it that, there.

[Alan Brice]

rickgregory Heeeyyy! ; -{))>

[bbqLuv]

Help me fill in the blanks? Ask not, but I am glad to oblige.

Cooking a steak on a kettle = Grilling-- paired with PBR
Smoking a roast = BBQ-- paired with PBR
Spit roasting a chicken at high heat = ? don't matter when paired with PBR
Slow roasting on a verticle spit = ? don't matter when paired with PBR
Roasting a whole lamb besides an open fire = ? don't matter when paired with PBR
Yakitori = ? don't matter when paired with PBR

What else? Old Crow with PBR back

[Bbqmikeg]

Are "Draft" and "Draw" the same thing?
Or is draw the suction of airflow into the cooker and out the vent
and draft the direction of airflow within in the cooker?
One to stoke the fire
and one to direct the smoke? (Like where to put the lid vent on a kettle)
I don’t know where to ask such questions.

[bbqLuv]

That depends on how they identify themselves. To be politically correct, "Don't ask, don't tell"

That applies to Coors Light too, is it beer? --"Don't ask, don't tell"