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How To Build a Wood-Fire Grill

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How To Build a Wood-Fire Grill

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Melissa McCart
Jul 1, 2022
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How To Build a Wood-Fire Grill

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Hi there. We hope you’re on your way to summertime relaxation and fun for this long holiday weekend. We have some leisurely reading material for you from Mike Diago — a piece on how he built his grill — which we think is appropriate for the unofficial grilling holiday, the Fourth of July. Here’s a link to the piece where he first talks about it on The Bittman Project.

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A DIY Grill Inspires a Summer's Worth of Dinners
At some point, I decided I’d rather grill with wood than gas. It smells better, there’s a wider range of heat, and it’s more cathartic. Recently, I finished building the wood-fired grill station of my dreams. It has a white stucco base with built-in wood storage and a firebrick top with a blue and white tile counter area. It’s all part of a larger campaign to make my backyard feel like a lazy rustic villa…
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10 months ago · 10 likes · 6 comments · Mike Diago

In addition, we’ve got our Friday roundup of this week’s posts. Enjoy your weekend and we’ll see you back here Tuesday.



How To Build a Wood-Fire Grill

Photo: Mike Diago

I’ve wanted to build a simple wood-fire grill for my entire adult life. I learned how to grill on one at my father’s house in Mexico while I was living there around the age of fifteen. It comprised a long beige-tiled counter with built-in Argentine-style grill grates that you could raise and lower over the fire with a hand crank. My father and I shared Carta Blanca beers while grilling chuletas de filete (filet mignon) almost every weekend that year.

These grills are common throughout Latin America and the Mediterranean, but I couldn’t find helpful YouTube tutorials until I typed in the word “Uruguayan.” Judging by the results, I would bet that Uruguayans have the most wood-fired grills, or parrillas, per capita.

Traditional Uruguayan parrillas are enclosed, with a slanted roof and a chimney. I watched about a dozen videos on how to make them, but I decided to stop short of building the chimney section. I built it in a way that will make it easy to build up later if I find it necessary. What I did is extremely simple, by comparison, but it will still leave you with a sore back.

Here are my guidelines.

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