Experiments!!

It was a fine night for grilling at the secret bunker test kitchen, so nice in fact we actually left the confines of our reinforced concrete fortress for the open air to test out a new product and some new ideas.

Firstly, friends, readers and fellow goons at our favorite torrid little corner of the intrawebs, www.somethingawful.com, have blathered on about this seasoning called 'Bacon Salt'. We procured some of it at our local Black Market grocer and decided to give it a go, even after discovering that the fourth ingrediant on the list is -gasp- M.S.G!! But migranes be damned, this must be tried!!
What goes better with pork? More pork of course! We assembled four chops from our favorite unclean animal and lightly seasoned them with the Bacon Salt and slapped them on the grill.

Next, we have one pound each of fresh green beans and baby carrots. The green beans have been washed, dried, tossed in oil and seasoned with koshering salt, black pepper and Old Bay.

We have rinsed and dried our carrots, tossed them in oil and added half a cup of dark brown sugar and ample black pepper and tossed them again to coat.


Now with our grill nice and hot and our oiled grill woks in place we begin! Working quickly the veg were tossed at regular intervals with the reserved brown sugar liquid lightly drizzled over the sizzling carrots.


Both the beans and carrots were started at the same time and the beans were done far before the carrots. Next time I will use crinkle cut carrot chips for faster cooking. So, as the carrots were finishing off, I grilled some sweet corn as well.


Results:
The Bacon Salt was extremely tasty! Too bad about all the MSG, but with the scant amount I used, the flavor was prominent and not over powering and I didn't notice any discernible negative effects. On a scale of 1 to 10 I would give it a strong 7, with the dreaded MSG being it's only downfall.

The green beans were the show stealer! Cooked al dente but still with a nice bright green color and fresh flavor intermingled with the smokey, sexy char flavor of the grill. Next batch I think I'm going to toss some slivered almonds and garlic into the mix and see what happens...

Finally the carrots, aside from being a bit boney, the flavor was excellent. An ever so slight sweetness with a touch of black pepper and smoke. Next time I will definitely use crinkle cut carrot chips and give them more time to marinate.