subject: Convenient Tips In Cooking Barbecues [print this page] You might be an expert when it comes to cooking barbecue. However, you might still be doing things wrong in the kitchen or out on the grill.
Cooking barbecue doesn't have to be so difficult and it doesn't have to be too tedious as well when you are preparing the different foods you are about to serve. And with these simple tips and tricks, you are definitely going to have a great time firing up that grill. This will also basically help you out tremendously with preparation and technique. Here are a few tricks that you can keep in mind the next time you are having a barbecue party at your house.
Always remember to work with a clean grill. If you don't want your meat tasting like the fish that you grilled the week before, then make sure that you wash and oil up your grill. Make sure to wash off everything that is stuck on the grill. Then brush some vegetable oil onto the grill so that your meat will not stick onto it as it cooks.
Make sure to never forget to brush on some oil on your grill. This should be one tip that you should not forget.
Use fresh coal. It's quite embarrassing to find our that the steak, burger, or hot dog that you had just grilled has some ash sticking on it. This is usually what happens when you don't clear out the used and spent pieces of charcoal or briquettes that you had earlier used. To avoid a sticky situation such as that, make sure that you are working with fresh batches of briquettes when girlling.
Pre-heat. It's no oven, but grills surely still need to be preheated. This is one way to make sure that your meat is cooked in the best heat. A good 15 or 30 minutes of heating up that grill would do your meat great.
Gradual heat will only leave you with something that tastes half-cooked and sometimes even burnt on the outside. So as you prepare your ingredients, make sure that grill is nice and hot.
Cook them hard. This means that you should cook each side of the steak that you have on the grill aggressively. By pushing your meat down towards the grill, this will definitely help in cooking the meat. This way you don't need to flip or keep turning your meat as you cook it. This will save you a lot of cooking time and you can serve your guests in jiffy.
Use tomatoes. Don't like an over-browned piece of meat? You can put a little tomato paste or tomato sauce. What you'll do with this is to brush it on your meat as you are nearly done grilling.
High heat, less time. When cooking with high heat, make sure that you don't go over 10 minutes or else you will be burning your meat instead of cooking it. Make sure that you know what temperature you have on your grill before proceeding to cook so that you can time the cooking itself.
