FIRE AWAY

The key to perfectly grilled food is knowing when to cook with direct heat or with indirect heat. And how you apply these techniques dictates whether your next grilling experience will be a victory or a char-broiled failure.

So when is one technique more appropriate than the other? The answer to “direct vs. indirect” mostly depends on what you’re throwing on the grill.

cooks foods right over the flame or coals so that the foods receive intense heat.