This is really an enquiry on DD's behalf. I hope that is allowed.
She has just replaced an all gas cooker with a dual fuel cooker, which means an electric grill. When ever she grills sausages under the grill, the fat spatters, hits the grill elements andwhich then burn it producing lots of smoke. Something the gas grill didn't do.
Does anyone else grill sausages under an electric grill and how do they deal with the clouds of smoke this produces?
Airfryer mostly every time..........not that we have sausage very often. Occasionally cook them in the oven if it is on for other things and then the sausages are in a roasting bag.
All this talk of sausages makes me hungry. Today is Good Friday. I don’t usually eat meat on Fridays especially not Good Friday. I might treat myself to Sausage and Chips tomorrow.
I used to have dissatisfaction with cooking sausages. Never grilled them but fried them which browned the outside but the inside was a problem so used to cook them in the oven with the outsides not as brown as I liked but inside well cooked. Now I can cook them just as I like them with my Ninja air fryer. They cook through and look really good.
I have an electric grill, the only way to cook them without flames and smoke is with the grill pan on a lower rail and turn the grill down to slower setting.
In the end I gave up and I now put them in the oven.
If I have time and more than a couple to cook I use the oven other wise a frying pan, if I’m doing Tomatoes and Mushrooms too, or Air fryer, never the Grill.
Since my new kitchen was fitted, the small top oven doubles as grill and microwave. I’ve given up grilling sausages, I fry or if they’re big fat ones, oven cook, (yes I know, profligate)
Yes, grilling sausages under an electric grill can cause spattering and smoke as the fat hits the elements. To reduce this, try using a drip tray to catch excess fat or place the sausages lower in the grill. If you're open to alternatives, a Master Forge grill might give better results with less smoke due to better ventilation