Traditional Grilling With an Open Pit BBQ
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Terrific New eBook On How To Broil Delicious Foods If you’re looking for an authentic barbeque experience, you should try using an open pit BBQ. Cooking in a BBQ pit enhances the absorption of heat and smoke into the meat. The flavor and aroma are unmatched. This method of cooking outdoors is ideal for larger cuts of meat such as a roast. Depending on the size of your pit, you could even cook up half a cow or a pig. Keep in mind that this is a slow process and can take upwards of 10 hours to fully cook. There are essentially two different kinds of open BBQ pits you could build: the traditional or the modern. The traditional open pit is inground and involves digging a hole. You then lay in your wood or charcoal and light it. You can place your food on a skewer and hold it over the flames while it cooks. Or you can set up a grill over the fire to place the food on. You can even wrap up your food in foil and place it in the coals once the fire has gone out. The modern open pit is usually an above ground BBQ. Stone, brick and concrete are the most common materials used for building such a structure. A BBQ pit features a firebox where the wood or briquettes can smolder. You install a grill at a level that isn’t too close to the coals so the meat won’t burn. With an open pit BBQ there are two ways of cooking your food. You can choose either direct or indirect heat. Direct heat cooking means that your food is cooked directly over the flame or heat of the burning coals. To help control the temperature, the fire is usually located on one side of the pit and the food is placed away from it on the other side. This method cooks your food relatively quickly and is perfect for tender cuts of meat. Indirect cooking is also known as pit cooking. Cooking with indirect heat involves using a very low temperature to cook the food. First you build up the fire until the pit has stored up a lot of heat. The goal is to build up a lot of heat in the interior of the pit. The fire is then put out and the meat is placed onto the grill. Then you’ll have to place a cover over the pit. The meat will become cooked entirely from the heat stored in the pit. This is a much slower method of cooking, and is best suited for tougher cuts of meat. Some people consider it to the best BBQ you can eat.
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