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Thursday, September 2, 2010

Practical Pieces of Advice for Cooking the Perfect Grilled Food

Grilled foods are the best to go for during the summer. You can go for these foods when the weather is hot, when you are on holiday or on the beach and you can enjoy them together with your family and friends on different more or less special occasions. In fact, you can’t go somewhere in the summer if you don’t make a barbecue, this ensuring the success of a nice day or night out.

It is perfectly natural that some food which smells great makes people even hungrier, but you have to choose the flavours and the way you cook the food very carefully because your health also counts in this equation. Here are a few general pieces of advice regarding the way you should approach grilled food.

You should only cook your food thirty minutes after you have lit up the charcoal. This is the time it takes for the combustion gas to evaporate. Also, the meat should have the same temperature as the one in a room before you put it on the grill and after grilling it, you shouldn’t put it in the same bowl in which it used to be before you grilled it.

Certain kinds of meat should go on the grill in certain moments. For instance, if you intend to learn how to grill chicken or pork, you should put the meat on the grill when the charcoal is at its strongest. If the charcoal is too strong, you should spread it. Also, the grill should be fixed and very stable and you shouldn’t go for any chemical methods in order to light the fire. The charcoal needs to be covered by a white layer of ash. Wood is enough for you to make the fire because there are a lot of other materials which are not healthy for you. These substances also appear when the fat and juice of the meat drip into the charcoal and burn.

Last but not least, you should put the products on an aluminium foil before putting them on the grill and when spinning them, you shouldn’t use a fork, but barbecue clippers. Having these in mind, enjoy your next barbecue! 

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