Smoking vs. Grilling on Balconies / High Rises in Poland

Forgive me but you are missing a few points. 1) Most balconies in the US, unless rented or owned by the more afluent people, ARE smaller and DO have other materials besides concrete, stone or brick... That is why it is illegal not only in TX; but in other areas of this country, like here in CT. However, something I noticed about some balconies in some areas of Poland, and that is that they can be a bit larger, or made only of concrete, brick, or stone; no wood or any other material. In that kind of case it may be possible in Poland because there are no such worries. I, myself would like to know if bbq cooking is specifically limited to certain types of grills like outdoor electric, as it is here in Hartford, or can you use gas or wood grills on the balcony?

@TeresaV▲ 0▼ 0

Anyone, in any country, that makes a BBQ on a balcony is a complete and utter nutter.
End of........

@Miloslaw▲ 0▼ 0

Unless (as you sometimes see in new apartments in Poland) there's a proper channel to a ventilation duct, designed so people can do this.

@jon357▲ 0▼ 0

Some neighbous in my apartment block used to make grills frequently about 10 years ago. Now they don`t - they probably realised it is countryside behaviour.

@pawian▲ 0▼ 0

They probably saw sense, and understood it was nuts...

@Miloslaw▲ 0▼ 0

Or they were taught a lesson when their next-balcony neighbours had a grill. My apartment block has huge balconies where one can accommodate quite a big party so people were tempted to use them in that way.

PS. I could be wrong and they still have grills during summer but I know nothing about it coz we are out for 2 months.

@pawian▲ 0▼ 0

I've never seen anyone doing this in Warsaw - I never see anyone grilling anywhere except the 'beach' by the river. If anyone so much as tried it in my block/area, the sour-faced elderly sasiady would immediately denounce them to every authority they could think of - police, spoldzelnia, the president...

Grilling on your balcony IS a bit cheeky, although the smoke stops pretty quickly when the coals are ready, it's very much exaggerated by the killjoys (lighten tf up), and the cooking smells are no worse (actually far less offensive) than when neighbours stink out the hallways with boiling cabbage, or at Easter when every building in Poland reeks to high heaven of farty hardboiled eggs.

But what really depresses me is that you're not even allowed to have a barbecue in your garden if (by some miracle - they're rare) you've got a ground floor flat with one. That's a suitable distance away from people's windows, especially if you do it right down at the bottom of the garden.

People are too rule-bound in Poland, they don't have any tolerance, sense of compromise or spirit of goodwill, and they love to spoil other people's fun just because they can. Grinchy, misanthropic sods.

@NoGrillZone▲ 0▼ 0

I am sure you are familiar with the inside grills or inside grills are not available in Poland?

@Przelotnyptak1▲ 0▼ 0

My grill, smokeless and odorless, is at a Burger King...about a mile down the road.

I don't have to clean and wash anything.

@Novichok▲ 0▼ 0

Much less popular.

@jon357▲ 0▼ 0

You leeving in US&A long enough to be familiar with the concept of the 'cookout', right? In some countries they call it a 'barbecue'. Well, the idea is, on a sunny day you grill food 'al fresco' with some friends/family and a cold beer or two. It's really enjoyable - you should try it sometime. Not in Poland, though, because unless you live in a fully detached house in a small town, they'll call a SWAT team if you light one up on your property.


No wonder you love Trump, you're both tasteless Philistines. I bet you drink about four litres of full-fat Coke a day too. Junk food, Starbucks coffee - living the American dream, stary.

@NoGrillZone▲ 0▼ 0

Your ae right, while admitting you are a slave, I wonder if you remember Aliens post complaining about the citation for driving one mile above the speed limit? combine the two and try to explain, why you are not a slave,
But original question was about the smokeless inside grill, used in the winter, and its availability in Poland.
And you the nameless coward changing your answer to fit your needs insolently instructing the grill master himself, Ptak the smoke and grill aficionado.

@Przelotnyptak1▲ 0▼ 0

Some very posh apartments have outside fireplaces on the terrace and some have a sort of tube that sucks smoke from a barbecue into the ventilation system like a chimney.

Only more expensive flats though.

One issue is that eye level grills have never been popular in PL. A bit out of fashion everywhere due to safety however in PL grilling just isn't an indoor thing.

Maybe that will change. We have an electric one which works nicely and wasn't expensive. We use it next to the cooker hood so there isn't much smoke.

@jon357▲ 0▼ 0

Used mostly in the winter months it is part of a stove with excellent ventilation system and equally good filtration. Some of the Americans cannot
imagine life without grilling. Grilling is huge in America. Tomorrow baby spareribs, Ptak's style, uncommonly good.

@Przelotnyptak1▲ 0▼ 0

Yes. Same for us.

Cookers developed differently in different parts of the world; this is part of it.

@jon357▲ 0▼ 0

I think a lot of it has to do with the fact that aren't really 'oven' people. A lot of people during communism seem to have just had hotplates - living on a lot of boiled stuff, soups, things you can cook in a pan. Hence most of the population doesn't know what a roast potato is, they eat pan-fried kotlet schabowy and the only thing they eat roasted is golonka or maybe a chicken, and even that is mostly restaurant/kiosk (e.g., rotisserie chicken kiosk) food.

@NoGrillZone▲ 0▼ 0

It's an anglosphere thing. Despite not having the best weather in the world, Brits are very keen barbecuers. As are Yanks and our inveterate gambler stepsons the Australians.

South Americans (e.g., Brazilians and Argentinians) love it too, but it comes very much from their rural cultures, gauchos cooking steaks on the ranch, etc. Anglosphere really embraced the idea of being a city-dweller and grilling in your garden on a hot day.

For Poles, it's really something only people who live in a big house in a small town do. Majority of under-30s in Poland have only ever barbecued at their parents' house in their hometown - it doesn't exist as part of urban life for them. It's kind of sad really. Illustrates how stifling and limited Polish urban life is, in the land of blocks and sour-faced neighbours.

@NoGrillZone▲ 0▼ 0