If you are new to Barbeque cooking, chances are you have run into some problems when it comes to barbequing. Garden barbeque cooking, like anything else, takes practice. Learning from your mistakes, as well as the mistakes of other will help you learn quickly.
Before you begin outdoor grilling, spray your outdoors cooking area with a nonstick cooking spray. This will prevent your meat from sticking when you are rotating or removing it. If your meat sticks and tears, you will lose a large amount of juice, and your meat may dry out.
Never place food on the grill until the temperature is correct. The fluctuation in temperatures will cause your food to dry out or burn. If you are using a Garden barbeque charcoal grill, make sure that the coals are completely gray before putting the meat on the grill. This will allow the temperatures to level out, and the majority of the lighter fluid to burn off.
Cooking with charcoal lighter fluid can be good or bad. The lighter fluid will cause the food you are cooking to taste different then with other types of grills. Alternatively, attempting to not use lighter fluid may cause a lot of frustration due to the fact that charcoal can be difficult if not impossible to light without lighter fluid.
You must properly prepare the meat you are barbeque cooking, before cooking it. You should never attempt to cook meat on a grill when it is still frozen, or even partially frozen. Thaw your meat by sitting it out about 12 to 24 hours before you plan on cooking it, or by thawing it in a microwave. If you meat is thawed, but in the refrigerator, set it out long enough for the meat to get to room temperature.
Once meat is cooked, never put it back in on the same plate you had it on when it was raw. This could cause the spread of many unwanted illnesses. Do not handle cooked meat with the same utensils that you used when it was raw.
Never poke you meat while it is cooking. Poking holes in meat will cause the juice inside to leak out into the bottom of the grill. Not only will this make your food dry and unappealing in the end, but it also could potentially ruin your garden barbeque grill. At the very least, it will cause a buildup of unwanted grease and juices on your grill, which will make cleanup harder.
Once the meat is outdoor grilling, try not to open the lid to many times. Each time you open the lid, you change the temperature in the grill. The constant change in temperature and the air flow will cause your meat to dry up quickly.
Remember that the higher the heat is not always the better. While it is ok to quickly cook food, turning the heat up will just cause the meat to dry up and potentially burn.
While using tin foil or aluminum foil will make cleaning easier, it will cause your food to have more of a fried taste then a grilled taste.
If you are planning on using your favorite garden barbeque sauce, be sure to wait as long as possible to put it on the meat. Putting barbeque sauce on to early will not only potentially cause your meat to dry out, but it could also burn and ruin your Outdoor grilling experience!
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At what temperature (my propane grill goes from 0 degree to 500 degrees)and for how long do you cook them? Do you flip them? At what point in time do you put on the bbq sauce?
As a former chef of the 4-star Wit’s End Ranch, Resort & Spa in Colorado I had occassion to cook many, many ribs at our outdoor BBQs. The way to have the least aggrevation on the grill and to get the best flavor is to pre-cook the ribs.
Have your butcher/meat dept. manager cut split the ribs down the middle, it will make them easier to handle. I’ve always pre-seasoned both sides of the ribs liberally with a seasoning blend, stood the ribs up against each other (if they are too tall you’ll have to lay them flat). Put about an inch of water in the bottom of the baking pan you’re going to use. Try to use a pan that will be fairly full when finished with this step. Some people like to add a little liquid smoke to the cooking liquid, personaly I don’t use the stuff…For extra flavor you can put some sliced onions over the top of the ribs…
Seal the top of the pan with plastic wrap and then 2 layers of foil, crimping at the top to make it air-tight as possible. This will "steam" the ribs, making them very tender. I usually cook them at 275-300 degrees for 3 hours (4 hours for the best pork ribs you’ll ever wrap your lips around!), rotating the pan after 90 minutes. DO NOT open the foil to check on them! After the 3 (again, 4 hours for pork)hours has elapsed pull the ribs out of the oven and allow them to sit for 15 minutes before pulling a corner of the foil back to check them. They should be close to falling-off-the-bone tender. If they are not as tender as you’d like them re-film and foil and cook for one more hour. At this point pull them gently out of the vessel and lay them flat to cool. I actually prefer to refrigerate them before going to the grill. This allows them to firm up a little, making the grilling a little easier.
Over a medium-high heat you want to put the ribs on the grill with no sauce to get them re-heated. Once they are hot sauce one side, flip them and sauce the second side. Allow the first side to get some decent marking before flipping one more time and saucing over the grill marks. Viola! They are done!
The rib meat is usually so good from this process that many people have asked for the ribs with the sauce on the side as they actually like to have some with no sauce at all!
Happy grillin’!
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October Rose had an opportunity to chat with the winners of the “Foodie Oscar”, the James Beard award, Bill and Cheryl Jamison and get some wonderful tips on outdoor cooking and how it can be fun for the whole family!
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