On Behalf Of Grill Guys Everywhere, We Must Welcome Steven Cheah With Open Arms
Some kids get to grow up learning how to grill from their old man at a young age. Their childhood was filled with dad dumping out half a bag of charcoal into the Weber, dousing that shit in some lighter fluid, tossing a match in that bad boy and watching those flames dance around with some burgers and chicken on the grill. Others might not learn how to grill until they go off to college and are on their own for the first time. You get together with the boys, tear through a case of the cheapest beer you could find, and figure out how to work the grill like a bunch of men.
I don't know exactly how old Steven Cheah is, but he just figured out how to fire up the grill yesterday. And you know what? I think that's a beautiful thing.
Sure, the guy may not know the difference between propane and charcoal. But we all have to start somewhere. Every time someone ignites a fire outside and throws some meat on top of it, we get back to the roots of life. It doesn't matter if you learn at 7-years-old or 37. Cooking over a fire outside (even if it's just by turning a few knobs to get the propane flowing and essentially cooking with a giant lighter) is why we even exist in the first place.
Think about where humans would be right now if a bunch of rad ass dudes didn't figure out how to control fire a million years ago. We'd probably be wiped off the face of the Earth already. But the fellas figured out how to make a fire, they figured out how to source some meat, they figured out that putting the meat over the fire not only makes it so it doesn't make you sick, but also tastes fucking delicious.
Every time you cook outside, that little primal section in your brain goes nuts. And Steven Cheah just got to experience that for the first time. But some people want to be assholes about it because it took him 30+ years to grill hot dogs and burgers for the first time. And while I agree it's...unusual to go that long in life without firing up the grill, he still figured it out anyway. The same way those rad ass dudes a million years ago did.
Oh and by the way--
A lot of people out there want to act like they're smarter and mightier than they actually are by giving Cheah shit about cooking a medium/borderline mid-rare burger. They'll bring up the fact that cooking ground beef isn't the same as cooking a steak, and there's a higher chance of bacteria being spread throughout the meat instead of just on a steak where you just need to make sure the outside is cooked off. And to a degree, that's fair. If you're at a chain restaurant where you have no idea how long that ground beef has been sitting out, or if you went to the grocery store and grabbed the cheapest pack of ground beef you could find that has been sitting in that styrofoam container for a couple of days? Cook that shit all the way. But if it's been recently ground up, you've kept it properly refrigerated, and washed your hands before shaping the burgers? There's literally nothing wrong with a medium/mid-rare burger that is going to cause you to get seriously ill. Biggest issue I see with that burger is that I would have toasted the bun.