Lighting a grill is simple, right? Grab a bag of coals from the supermarket, dump them in the dilapidated barbecue on your porch, and spray the whole damn thing with lighter fluid?Not so, friends. If you don't exert some control over your fire, you're going to end up with a bunch of meat that's pink and raw on the inside, charred and black on its exterior. Not to mention that you'll probably singe off your eyebrows, and we all know the importance of on-fleek eyebrows these days. (Don't even come near us with those overplucked—or burned off—monstrosities.)
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Everyone thinks they know how to start a charcoal grill, but most don't do it properly. Dousing the charcoals and flame with lighter fluid, hoping for a "big flaming inferno," will be to no avail. Our resident grill expert J. Pereira is here to show us that actually, you don't even need any lighter fluid at all. We'll repeat that: Put down the lighter fluid and get ready for some real grilling action.Watch and learn from a backyard BBQ master below."I don't know the science behind any of this stuff." says J., "But I know that it works."Thankfully, you can keep your facial hair and be a badass grillmaster, too.