[Sca-cooks] gas grills and marshmallows

[Edouard de Bruyerecourt]

Jadwiga Zajaczkowa wrote:
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> Does anyone know if it's safe to toast marshmallows over a gas grill?

If you're asking if anything in the gas (propane) will adversely affect
the marshmellow, no. Propane burns 97% pure, which is why we use it for
inside stoves and barbequing directly over flame. As for the odor
providers put into to it to warn of gas leaks, that is supposed to be
consumed and destroyed during combustion (otherwise, nobody would want
to use it....). As for using metal skewers, well,....they'd get hot and
burn lips even if over a wood fire. Just put the marshmellow aside the
flame, or somewhere above it, not in or just touching the flame (that
interfers with combustion and produces soot). What you really want is
even, glowing coals.

Edouard