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a sacred altar where mortals incinerate meat and call it cooking out of love
means A grill is a metal grate set over fire or heat used to cook food, or the cooking device built around one — and, by extension, to grill someone is to interrogate them as if over flames.
from From the French 'gril' (a gridiron), itself descending from Latin 'craticula,' a 'small grate' or wickerwork frame — a diminutive of 'cratis,' meaning hurdle or lattice. So the word's deepest bones are woven, not welded: it began as the idea of crisscrossing bars. The same Latin root gives English 'grate' and 'griddle,' close cousins around the same hearth. The slang sense of 'grilling' a person under hot questioning is a 19th-century figurative leap, and the more recent 'grill' meaning jeweled dental wear borrows the older sense of a metal lattice fronting the teeth.
- origin word
- comes from Latin craticula, meaning small gridiron
- slang
- to grill means relentless interrogation, and your teeth
- solar power
- the sun grills food at giant solar furnace facilities
- gender split
- men do most grilling but rarely the dishes
weber kettle grill — iconic charcoal grill designed by george stephen in 1952, now the best-selling grill model worldwide
big green egg — ceramic kamado-style grill from north carolina, cult following among barbecue enthusiasts since 1974
argentinian asado grill — traditional parrilla used throughout argentina for grilling meat over wood fire, central to gaucho culture