| We all have heard about barbecuing, but we are | | | | smoking is best for cooking larger pieces. Roasts, ham, |
| unaware of the real tricks in it. Barbecuing is also a | | | | ribs, brisket, etc are some of the foods that can be |
| form of art. To a person who is new to this art may | | | | smoked. One must maintain a steady temperature, to |
| get confused, because cooking meat in an open fire is | | | | come up with a deliciously smoked food. The |
| a really tricky method. In order to get a really good and | | | | normal,suited temperature for smoking is between |
| delicious bbq dish, one must have a lot of | | | | 200-225 degrees. If you cook the meat until it's 165 |
| patience.Barbecuing can be done in two methods: | | | | degrees in the middle, it would make the meat more |
| through grilling and smoking. Grilling is the quickest | | | | tastier,as the smoke flavour gets deep into it.For basic |
| method of cooking meat over a direct source of dry | | | | bbq smoking, you can use the regular grill. The only |
| heat, whereas, smoking is a slow process, where the | | | | thing that one must be aware while smoking is, the |
| food is kept at a particular distance from the fire. Now | | | | selection of right type of wood.Because, each wood is |
| let us take the two separately, to know the real | | | | different in its own way. So we have to experiment |
| processing. | | | | with all sorts of wood to find out which one is the best. |
| BBQ Grilling | | | | Smokers may vary in shapes and sizes.There are |
| Grilling is of two types: direct and indirect. But before | | | | smokers running in gas and charcoal.But the heat |
| going into the details,let me tell you that there are three | | | | coming from any type of smoker is a cooler one,which |
| varieties of grills: charcoal grill, gas grill and electric grill. | | | | is why it takes a lot of time to smoke. |
| Charcoal grills are relatively inexpensive when | | | | Now to end with it, barbecuing has to undergo one |
| compared to the other two. Now we'll go back to the | | | | more process, that's topping it with sauce.In fact it is |
| types of cooking. Direct method is a high heat method | | | | the topmost ingredient, which one can't omit while |
| and is used for cooking relatively small pieces of food. | | | | barbecuing.Types of sauce varies according to the |
| Steaks, chops, chicken breasts,etc are some of the | | | | region. If vinegar-base sauce is typical in Southern |
| typical foods that can be grilled directly. In indirect | | | | United States, tomato-base sauce is typical in Western |
| method, as the name suggests, the food is kept to the | | | | United States. The best time to apply sauce is during |
| side of the heat source. It is somewhat like baking a | | | | the last stage of cooking.ie,when you are sure that the |
| cake or such type of foods.Now we will move on to | | | | meat is well cooked,because,sugar is one of the main |
| smoking. | | | | ingredients in barbecue sauces and it tends to burn |
| BBQ Smoking | | | | easily. So you must cook the meat before you burn |
| Smoking is the finest way to cook food,even though it | | | | the sugar. |
| takes time. If grilling is best for cooking smaller pieces, | | | | |