I get that you like the charcoal flavor, but you can mess up grilling as easily as you can mess up broiling.
Instant read thermometers take a lot of guess work out of charcoal or propane grilling and broiler use.
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Actually unless your flame is too high, grill is pretty to manage. At least that has been my experience. A butterflied salmon is cooked skin side down until nearly done and flipped to finish the top.
I feel the same way about broiling! Especially with a fatty fish like salmon.
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I’ve cut way back on octopus, too, because of their intelligence. I didn’t eat a lot before, but way less now. I don’t mind eating other critters, and my line zigs and zags pretty hypocritically. Like pigs. Also very intelligent, but also very tasty. I suppose if octopuses tasted better, I’d be more conflicted, but since they’re pretty bland, it’s easy to give them up.
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Since humans are (arguably) the smartest creatures on Earth, where does your line zig or zag on cannibalism?
I have not yet partaken of long pig, but I am not averse to trying. I have wavered on whether it matters if I knew and liked the person being served. I have actually had long discussions with friends regarding it.
ETA: Several years ago, when John Paul II visited Mexico, some entrepreneur made and sold t-shirts that said, “He visto El Papa”, thinking it meant “I saw the Pope”, but for lack of one diacritical mark, actually said “I saw the potato”. That led Spawn2 and me to talk about how you might best cook the Pope. We decided that JP2 was probably fatty and tender. When Benedict took over, we figured he’d be tough and stringy, and would probably need to be cooked low and slow.
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Ages ago I discovered when extinguishing a match between my fingers, that singed me smells very much like pork. I did not pursue it further.
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I 
ed your comment not because I agree with you but instead for your ultimate and unexpected honesty.
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In college, I got to know one of the campus police officers. He’d lived a pretty interesting life, and spent part of his 20s driving a tow truck in Australia. He claimed that tow truck drivers listened to police scanners for reports of accidents, and the first tow truck on the scene basically got his pick of which vehicle(s) he wanted to tow. (Compared to how it works in California, where law enforcement has a rotating call sheet for the next contracted tow operator.) Rushing to all these accidents often made him hungry, and one of his colleagues explained that it was because the people in the cars were burning and it was a Pavlovian response. ISTR Chuck said that made him quit to find other work.
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The Reader’s Digest version: No on octopus. Maybe on Human. 
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Pigs are especially clever.
I like eating octopus.
Humans are also the most homocidal. Did you read how Jane Goodall had said dogs were her favorite animals, not chimps … chimps are too much like us apes, can be very cruel.
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I like tarragon. Just not in/on salads.
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I’m pretty sure every grandmother and mother, where I grew up, added caraway to their shrimp boil/steam. No joke. Polish secret? I dunno.
How about that. I like caraway, so I might give it a try.
I like it, too, but I do not encounter it often. I like it in rye bread, I like a little sprinkled in coleslaw, and using akavit instead of vodka in a bloody Mary is a fun variation (but I still like gin best).
It’s very nice in borscht.
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i guess it isn’t called homicide when a wolverine or a coyote kills a creature LOL.
I don’t know which non-human animals are the most homicidal? Piranha ? Great White Shark? Grizzly Bear ? And I don’t know if they have the mens rea to charge them with homicide.
I outgrew my once massive aversion to caraway seed, at some point between age 24 and 30.
