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Right verb or wrong verb, it doesn't really invalidate the point I was making. If all you do is stand by the barbecue, put things in it and flip the food occasionally while everything else magically happens around you, you're only doing the fun bit.
What is the right word for indirect heat cooking anyway? "Smoking" in that context doesn't necessarily imply making it hot for close-to-immediate consumption, and "cooking" seems far too general.
Likewise, "barbecuing" could mean grilling, so that's too general as well.
I'm from North Carolina. There was a candidate for NC governor once who lost his race because he was heard saying he was "sick of barbecue." It's a THING here.
No. No it doesn't.
Grilling is a short duration, high direct heat process.
Barbecuing is a long duration, low indirect heat process.
Those who use barbecuing as a synonym for grilling are objectively wrong and have measurably damaged you and your ability to communicate about food preparation.
Objectively wrong for your part of the world maybe.
I guess my part of the world probably doesn't have a word for the distinction because here it can mean either.
Either that or it's a case of common parlance versus learned parlance, like, for the sake of any example, when people say "theory" but mean "hypothesis" and in learned parlance "theory" has a different meaning.
My part of the world uses the word "barbecue" specifically to mean the kind of cooking we were talking about and avoids that ambiguity you were struggling with, so I think I can confidently say use of the word "barbecue" as a synonym for "grill" when the word "grill" is also in use is uselessly defective.