/bbq/ general

>>9243181
1) Turn the heat down you ponce.
2) Don't try to flip the food too soon.

>>The thing is a nightmare to bbq...
Of course it is. It has nothing whatsoever to do with BBQ. It's a fucking griddle. A flat-top. It's for pan-frying, not fucking smoking meat over a period of many hours. Use it for the same kind of things you'd cook in a frying pan--bacon, eggs, pancakes, etc--not for fucking BBQ.

>>9243181
Get creative dude, make things that are outside foods but aren't actually BBQ. Make stuff meant for a griddle/hot plate? Think street foods and have fun with it.

Get a nice long handled spatula or two, and start pretending you work at a fair, or a sub shop or kebab place. Philly cheesesteak subs, grilled sausages with caramelized peppers and onions, blackened chicken, blackened fish, shrimp, slicing up a loaf of gyro meatloaf you made, and grilling up the slices to order. Season up hamburgers in ways that would have fallen through the grill previously, fold into meat bits of bacon/cheddar, blue cheese, or make turkey burgers with greek flavors, loads of feta that would have stuck to an ordinary grill but will get bubbly and browned now. If you want smoke now, you will need to incorporate smoky bacon, smoked meats, smoky sauces, and thats okay! Can you cook bacon over coals, well, you can now! And, you let that grease flavor up some potato slabs, maybe make some cornmeal and corn griddle cakes to go with your kielbasa, or get some peirogies golden brown with your smoked sausage. All those fancy sausages in the 4 packs, you can now make them, garlic butter griddle some buns, and make your sides at the same time. Cook raw pita dough, warm up tortillas and taco meats like on a comal.

Endless asian options. From okonomiyaki to little skewers of thai satay to yogurt marinated tandoori meats, to filet mignon wrapped negamaki asparagus.

Stop bitching and do something new. Id start with venezuelan sausage and homemade arepas with queso.

>>9243216
BBQ means grilling outside to pretty much everyone in the world outside of a few southern states in the US. You understood him and are just being obtuse

>>9243284
Yeah, I get that.

It still doesn't make any sense. Grilling implies getting a certain flavor due to the use of actual fire, be it from wood, charcoal, or propane. You're not going to get any of that from a flattop. It's a bad choice for "bbq" regardless of if you assign it the "low and slow" definition or the "cook meat outdoors on a fire" definition.