Hey podcast friends, this is Kendra and you are listening to the lazy genius podcast.

Here I'm going to help you be a genius about the things that matter and lazy about the things that don't.

Today's episode, episode 26, the lazy genius grills or barbecues depending on where you live in the country.

So here's the pitch. Summer is the perfect time for grilling. We all notice.

But why does it feel so hard to get started sometimes? It feels like there are some people that have this amazing skill at the grill.

But we have to keep going back inside over and over again because we keep forgetting things.

The food is burned or like gross doesn't taste like anything or sticks to the grill.

So let's be really all our makeup is the disaster at the end because there's just so much sweating.

Sometimes it just feels too hard. But we still want to do it right. We still long to do that in the summer.

It just feels right. We want to be geniuses about it.

So today in the playbook we're going to talk about the only three rules you need to know about grilling.

What to actually put on the grill and then how to clean it up without wanting to throw the grill away and just start all over.

Now let me give you a quick disclaimer. So the grill can do a million things.

But for the sake of today we are only going to talk about the most basic approach.

Okay, no smokers or heat zones or cooking a pork shoulder all day.

That is a different conversation and one that really will never fully understand until we get comfortable with the basics anyway.

So just know those things are not happening. We're just going to grill simple grilling.

Okay, so let's get started.

Now the most the most lazy genius way for you to think about the grill is to pretend it's a giant stove because it kind of is.

It's just one with direct heat from an actual fire. Okay, so anything that you'd feel comfortable cooking on your stove.

You can cook on the grill and we're going to talk about some specifics in just a second.

But first there are three grilling rules to know.

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