Getting The Most From Your Barbecue

Direct Cooking Method

Commonly used for traditional barbecuing. Place food over the lit grill section. Excess flaring may occur and so care must be taken while cooking. Check inside the roasting hood regularly. We do not recommended this method for roasts unless you place a baking dish under the roast, this will allow flammable fats and juices to be isolated away from the flame. The direct cooking method is recommended for steaks, chops, sausages, and hamburgers.

Indirect Cooking

Indirect cooking involves little or no heat directly underneath the food. Instead, the food is placed on the grill, the burners below the food are turned off, and burners on either side are used. With this method, heat circulates around the food, cooking by convection.

By trapping the vapour inside your “outdoor oven”, the cooking vapour will fall back on the food on all sides, not just from underneath. The food cooks more evenly, and stays moist in the process.

This method of cooking applies only if you have a roasting hood.

Indirect cooking is similar to using a conventional oven and is recommended for rotisserie cooking, roasts, poultry, casseroles, vegetables and whole fish.

Using The Rotisserie

The rotisserie is provides an excellent means of cooking large cuts of meat slowly and evenly all round.

The rotisserie shaft should pierce the food as close to the middle as possible. However, occasionally there will be more weight on one side of the shaft than the other. If left like this, it will cause a strain on the rotisserie motor.

Use the counterweight to adjust the balance on th erotisserie. Loosen the handle slightly, and adjust the position of the couterweight until it is opposite the heaviest portion of the meat. Retighten the handle. It is a good idea to spin the rotisserie by hand before connecting it to the motor to see if it has been succesfully balanced.

Using The Side Burner

The side burner allows you to par boil sausages, stir fry, prepare sauces, or precook vegetables without leaving your barbecue.

You turn the side burner on the same way you turn your barbecue on.

Ensure that long handles do not hang too far over the edge of the burner, as this can create a safety hazard.

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