There’s a moment at every backyard party where the host either disappears into the kitchen for the next hour or stays outside with everyone else, actually enjoying the gathering they planned. Hosting a crowd of 20 off a single grill comes down to which side of that line a host lands on, and it has nothing to do with owning a bigger grill.
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