Rule number 1: Never touch another man’s grill. The backyard grill is a territory only big enough for one person to sear, season, flip and brush with a cold beverage in hand. Sure, there’s room for others to approach the grill to keep your gracious grill master/host company and chat saucy details of the love employed in preparing the marinades, skewers and rubs hours, if not days before you arrived. But while you’re told not to venture too close to another man’s grill because it’s his territory and you risk bringing his grilling prowess into question, it’s not always the testosterone smoke screen you perceive it to be…

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