Preparing Your BBQ Correctly
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Destry Masterson
Destry Masterson is a health, fitness and nutrition expert. She has written articles about diet, exercise and food storage.
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Published on 01/24/2012
If you want to grill, you got to do it right. Make sure that you have the proper tools for your trade before you start throwing shish kabobs on the BBQ.
If you want to cook, there are a few things that you got to know about. First you need the recipe, this is going to be the outlined idea that you want to bring to life.
Then you are going to need the ingredients, obviously you cannot make a tiramisu without egg yolks, lady fingers, sugar, and vanilla extract. These will be the materials necessary for construction.
So far you can have an outline or a blue print along with materials, but unless you have the proper tools you are not going to be able to bring your masterpiece to life. Of course you could jimmy-rig everything; use a pen to scramble your eggs while cooking them for a minute at a time in the microwave, but that just makes scrambled eggs sound, well, nearly detestable.
What you want to do for eggs is get a flat frying pan and a thin blade rubber spatula. A few years ago the recommended spatula would be metal for everything, but now days they have the Teflon coating over every single frying pan so if you use metal you will scrape up some carcinogenic chemicals with your food.
However if you are working with a grill, then you had better get a metal spatula. The BBQ is the contemporary way to get the flavor of a fire roasted meal, without all the trouble of creating a fire, hunting for days out in the wilderness, stripping and gutting the kill, and then preserving the remains while you struggle through winter.
Luckily, you can get the same fresh flavor from an open flame that the prehistoric Neanderthals did, but you do not have to suffer any of the trying conditions that they did. It is a win/ win for you and your stomach.
Though remember even if you have the ingredients and the recipe, you will still need the tools to make it happen. This is a simple axiom all men inertly know, tools are for work.
Do not get any rubber spatulas, tongs, forks or knives. You will probably want forged metal (for the increased durability) and wooden handles.
Thick wood is going to be hard to burn and it hardly conducts heat at all, so when you are flipping your patties on the grill you do not have to worry about grabbing a hot spatula. Along with the fork, tongs, spatula and BBQ knife, you are probably also going to want to get a good scraper.
Scraping your BBQ after every meal is going to make it keep its integrity. Also it will prevent old bits of burnt food from adding unwanted flavors to your current cooking.
Then you are going to need the ingredients, obviously you cannot make a tiramisu without egg yolks, lady fingers, sugar, and vanilla extract. These will be the materials necessary for construction.
So far you can have an outline or a blue print along with materials, but unless you have the proper tools you are not going to be able to bring your masterpiece to life. Of course you could jimmy-rig everything; use a pen to scramble your eggs while cooking them for a minute at a time in the microwave, but that just makes scrambled eggs sound, well, nearly detestable.
What you want to do for eggs is get a flat frying pan and a thin blade rubber spatula. A few years ago the recommended spatula would be metal for everything, but now days they have the Teflon coating over every single frying pan so if you use metal you will scrape up some carcinogenic chemicals with your food.
However if you are working with a grill, then you had better get a metal spatula. The BBQ is the contemporary way to get the flavor of a fire roasted meal, without all the trouble of creating a fire, hunting for days out in the wilderness, stripping and gutting the kill, and then preserving the remains while you struggle through winter.
Luckily, you can get the same fresh flavor from an open flame that the prehistoric Neanderthals did, but you do not have to suffer any of the trying conditions that they did. It is a win/ win for you and your stomach.
Though remember even if you have the ingredients and the recipe, you will still need the tools to make it happen. This is a simple axiom all men inertly know, tools are for work.
Do not get any rubber spatulas, tongs, forks or knives. You will probably want forged metal (for the increased durability) and wooden handles.
Thick wood is going to be hard to burn and it hardly conducts heat at all, so when you are flipping your patties on the grill you do not have to worry about grabbing a hot spatula. Along with the fork, tongs, spatula and BBQ knife, you are probably also going to want to get a good scraper.
Scraping your BBQ after every meal is going to make it keep its integrity. Also it will prevent old bits of burnt food from adding unwanted flavors to your current cooking.