There is nothing that says you take your grilling seriously quite like a barbeque pit.
If you want to feed a small army with a heaping helping of barbeque then a barbeque pit is for you. Anyone can use one, from your grill crazy neighbor down the street to people who cook barbeque for a living. You can get one in any shape, size or price range; it just depends on your needs. There is nothing you can’t barbeque on them, except for perhaps a whole cow, but there is probably one out there that can handle that as well.
Not everyone understands what a barbeque pit is.
A charcoal filled pit slow cooking a pig all day is what most people envision. Now while that is still a barbequing method that works today, the modern barbeque pit, as most people from barbeque happy parts of the country know, is a modern marvel of grilling magic.
In the hands of a skilled griller a barbeque pit will produce mouth watering meals time after time. The barbeque pits on the market today are built well and can take thousand degree temperatures with ease.
You can keep your barbeque pit in tip top shape for many years if you follow these few tips.
- Before you fire up your barbeque pit for the first time it is a good idea to coat the inside with cooking oil. If you look you can find oil made just for barbeque pits.
- Once you have a nice coat of oil on the inside of your pit make a small fire in its center and let it heat the pit and the oil until it has burnt out.
- After about two hours your barbeque pit will be properly seasoned and you can start barbequing.
Andrew Bicknell is a barbeque aficionado with a website about barbequing. For more tips and trick about barbeque pits visit his web site Backyard Barbeque.
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These are too easy to be this good!
Blue Cheese Burger
Ingredients
- 3 pounds lean Ground Chuck Steak
- 6 ounces Blue Cheese, crumbled
- 1/2 cup minced fresh Chives
- 1/4 teaspoon Hot Pepper Sauce (more or less to taste)
- 1 teaspoon Worcestershire Sauce
- 1 teaspoon coarsely ground Black Pepper
- 1 1/2 teaspoons Salt
- 1 teaspoon dry Mustard
- 12 French rolls or hamburger buns
Directions
- In a large bowl, mix the ground beef, blue cheese, chives, hot pepper sauce, Worcestershire sauce, black pepper, salt, and mustard.
- Cover, and refrigerate for 2 hours.
- Preheat grill for high heat. (Visit the Weekend Grillers today to learn the best way of Testing the Temperature of your Grill.)
- Gently form the burger mixture into about 12 patties.
- Oil the grill grate.
- Grill patties about 5 minutes per side, or until done to desired.
- Serve on the rolls or buns. .
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After winter ends and summer finally rolls around, it is time to fire up the grill and enjoy the great taste of barbecued food. There is just something about cooking over a flame that makes all of your meat and vegetables taste unbelievably delicious. With all of the modern cooking and preparation tools available, you can take pleasure in the very best grilled steaks, kabobs, vegetables, chicken, and more this summer.
Food Preparation
Food preparation is one of the most important aspects of cooking, especially when it concerns barbequed food. With the right preparation equipment, you can prepare your grill for fast, efficient cooking that will produce tasty food that will have everyone asking for seconds.
A great way to cut your food preparation time in half is by investing in an electric meat grinder. This product is perfect for large family and friend gatherings, as it enables you to grind up to a pound of fresh meat in just one minute. The electric meat grinder can grind anything from venison to chicken, veal, ham, fruits and vegetables. You can ensure the freshest and purest meat to your guests when you use the electric meat grinder.
Once you have ground up your meat, you want to make the perfect-shaped burgers for your guests. With a burger press, you can easily transform your freshly-ground meat into patties of a uniform size and thickness. This enables each of the half a dozen patties that you can cook at once to cook and cool evenly. With a slider station, you can cook delicious mini burgers thoroughly without having to flip them at all!
Food Hygiene
While summer barbecues should be nothing but fun with friends and family, various insects can quickly make your summer party an unpleasant experience. Also, if your carefully prepared food does not stay at the right temperature, it can become unsafe and unhealthy for your hungry guests. Keep the fun factor of your barbeque at the right level with products designed to keep insects away and keep your food at just the right temperature, whether hot or cold.
Investing in mesh food tents can be a great way to keep insects off of your food. These handy and stylish tools also ensure that air continues to circulate around the food, keeping it fresher for longer. These tents are ideal for protecting side dishes and desserts while you are cooking the rest of the meal on the grill.
To keep your food at the perfect temperature all night, consider items such as the Wilton Armetale hot & cold thermal tray. This handy metal tray keeps hot food hot, and cold food cold, at a stable temperature for hours. To keep your delicious salads perfectly chilled, check out the Salad On Ice Serving Bowl, which features a salad bowl equipped with a lower compartment that can be filled with ice, to keep salads crisp and fresh.
The Main Event
During a barbeque, the main event is usually the items cooked on the grill whether it is burgers, hot dogs, chicken, kabobs, and much more. Thankfully, there are plenty new items that can help you grill any meat or vegetable to mouth-watering perfection.
For cooking food pieces such as chicken wings and drumsticks, the chicken rack is exactly what you need. You can easily grill up to twelve pieces of chicken on this rack, and the vertical placement helps to take up less grill space and the meat cook evenly, and also allows excess fat to drip away.
To grill burgers and sausage, a grilling basket is a fantastic idea. Simply place your burgers and sausages in the basket, and put the entire product on the grill. When it is time to flip the meat, simply turn the entire basket over. A grilling basket makes it easy to get burgers flipped quickly, and you will never have problems with the meat sticking to the grill. Better yet the entire basket is adjustable, so you can accommodate many different patties, hot dogs, and links, of different sizes.
Grilled kabobs are delicious, but it can sometimes be tricky to get them cooked without having the entire stick fall apart on you. With kabob baskets you can do away with the skewers entirely. Simply stack vegetables and meat cubes in the long narrow baskets before grilling to your preference. Stacks of juicy, delicious meats and vegetables are a breeze with these handy baskets.
When you have guests over for a barbeque, chances are that each guest will have their own preferences for having their steak cooked. A set of steak charms will help you remember who gets what by securely attaching to each piece of meat for a friendly reminder. Everyone will get their meat cooked just the way they like it, and you will be the hit of your event.
Once the party is over, it is time to clean up. Make it a quick-and-easy job with the Grill Daddy, a brush with stiff, stainless steel bristles that help you shift grease with ease.
Lisa Parker is a freelance writer who writes about cooking and other home products, often discussing particular types of items such as cooking accessories
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