[Esaias]

6-8 hours? This evening I cooked two nice sized roasts on the grill in about an hour and a half (cooked them longer than usual because we may have some guests tomorrow who don't like 'rare' roast beef).

I used a quick marinade of white vinegar, sunflower oil, lots of garlic powder, 'italian seasoning' mix (basil, oregano, thyme, rosemary, maybe something else??), salt, and lost of black pepper. Cooked over pecan wood chunks. I threw them on the grill while it still had some flame going (the oil marinade caused an immediate inferno lol) to sear them on both sides, then closed the lid and let them smoke/grill for the rest of the time, flipping them over twice.

Usually I cook a roast for about 45 minutes on the grill, I like my beef rare on the inside and seared on the outside. There is NOTHING like fried, blackened beef fat on a nice, juicy rare to medium-rare slab of seasoned, smoked, grilled, beef! Makes a roast into a giant steak, lol.

Anyway, the marinade was a good touch but I did not have time to really let it soak first (only had about 20-30 minutes soaking before going on the grill). I brushed the marinade on every time I turned them, and although the meat is good it isn't AWESOME (inside that is, the surface is mouth watering, the inside just tastes like smoked brisket, which isn't bad, just not AWESOME... I am looking for AWESOME. Did I mention I am trying to find an AWESOME way to cook a roast on the grill? lol).

Maybe Ferd will jump in here. I hear he likes to cook.

(Ever notice most Yankees don't have much to say about cooking food? It's all us Southrons... lol)