GETTING STARTED
With today’s lifestyle of striving to eat healthy and nutritious foods, one factor to consider is the importance of reducing fat intake. One of the best ways to cut down on fat in your diet is to use a low fat method of cooking, such as grilling.
Throughout this manual, you will notice the emphasis on grilling food slowly at MEDIUM temperature settings. Because of the benefit of convection cooking, and the use of the “Arched Flavor Guard”, your Country Smoker Grill will enable you to avoid
Following is a list of the important tips that will contribute to the cooking perfection that you can expect when using your Louisiana Grill.
Environment
As with all barbecues, the outside weather conditions will play a big part in the performance of your Country Smoker and the cooking times needed to perfect your culinary delights. Your Country Smoker, because of its single wall construction, should be considered as a 2 to 3 season grill, depending on what part of country you live in. For greater detail on grilling and weather conditions, see the “Hot and Cold” weather tips found in your Louisiana Grills Cook Book and Recipe Keeper.
Grill Placement
The tailgate model should always be placed on a
All Country Smokers should always be a minimum of 12 inches away from any wall behind the grill.
Your grill does come will wheels or casters so the smoker and vent holes found on the back, can be turned away from the wind resulting in better temperature output. If you are able to shelter your grill from the wind this will aid in temperature output, heat retention, and heat recovery time when opening the lid.
Operating the Grill
Initial Burn Off
Before cooking on your smoking’ grill for the first time, we recommend that you “burn off” the grill to rid it of any foreign matter. Light and operate the grill on
Lighting your Grill
It is recommended practise to always go through the SET UP Procedures after every 1 to 3 uses. This will ensure proper ignition and many happy grilling experiences. Light as per instructions found in detail later in this manual. If the grill fails to light, this is most likely due to a dirty or full burn grate blocking the auto igniter air passages. (refer to lighting instructions found elsewhere in this manual)
Should your auto igniter refuse to ignite the wood pellets, it is easy to light your grill manually with a match and lighting agent. (refer to manual lighting instructions found elsewhere in this manual)
Pre-Heating
It is extremely important to ALWAYS allow your grill to preheat before cooking. This allows the grill and cooking grids to heat up quicker and the grill is able to maintain its cooking temperature once your food is placed in the cooking area. If you do not allow the grill to preheat, you will find that it takes a longer period of time to bring both the grill and the food to cooking temperatures.
Always
Lid Position
Always cook with the lid closed. Not only does this keep the temperature even, the food will cook faster, using less fuel. A closed lid also helps to create a smokier flavour. You can slow down your cooking by propping up the lid using the grill lifter.
CAUTION: Grease fires are caused by not properly maintaining your grill, or failing to clean the bottom of the barrel on
aconsistent basis. In the unlikely event you experience a grease fire while cooking, keep the lid closed. If it does not go out ins a very short time, open the lid and lightly sprinkle baking soda on the fire. Be careful not to burn yourself. If this does not work, then carefully remove the food from the grates, turn the temperature control to OFF and shut the lid until the fire is completely out.
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