How to BBQ: November 2012

How To Cook On A Charcoal Barbeque

Pour the charcoal into a mound in the middle of your charcoal barbeque. Poke one or two firelighters (available from your local hardware or DIY store) around the charcoal and light.

Leave until the flames have gone out and the charcoal has turned to a light grey.This should take around 20 minutes. The charcoal BBQ is now ready to use. Spread the hot charcoal to the sides of the BBQ and place the grill rack on top.

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Paint your chosen food with oil and place on the grill rack. Cover with a lid and cook for the required time as stated in your recipe. Some BBQ's have a vent in the lid to allow some heat to escape, if your barbeque has one of these, make sure to leave the vent open.

How To Cook On A Charcoal Barbeque

If your BBQ doesn't have a thermometer; (some BBQ's at the cheaper end of the market don't) a good indicator of the correct cooking temperature is to hold your hand over the top of the grill and count 5 seconds (I use the 1 elephant, 2 elephant way to count). If you can keep your hand there for that long then the heat is ready for cooking the food, too hot and the food will burn on the outside and be raw on the inside, a sure fire way to end up really sick! Just leave the coals to cool for 10 - 15 mins and test again.

Should your BBQ have a thermometer you're looking for an ideal temperature of 160C. Keep the heat on the grill constant by adding a few coals every half hour remembering to keep the lid on.

Try not to keep peeping under the lid as this lets all the heat out and the food will take longer to cook, you should be able to produce perfectly edible barbequed food if you follow the simple tips outlined above.

How To Cook On A Charcoal Barbeque

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BBQ Chicken Recipe - How to Make the Most Tender BBQ Chicken

BBQ chicken recipe ingredients

2 x 4-5lb roasting chickens
Olive Oil
Dark Soy sauce
Black pepper

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Marinade the roasting chickens first by basting them with equal parts of olive oil, dark soy sauce and crack over about half a tablespoon of black peppercorns. For best results place the roasting chickens on the upper rack area of your BBQ smoker at around 250f to 300f for around 4 or so hours until the internal temperature of the chickens reach 180f.

BBQ Chicken Recipe - How to Make the Most Tender BBQ Chicken

Tend to your smoker once or twice during the smoking process and top up with wood chips as appropriate. Don't forget to add some extra water to the smokers water pan to ensure that your chickens are getting a light moist smoke throughout the whole cooking process.

Once the chicken has cooked properly, remove the whole chickens from your smoker and wrap them in some plastic freezer bags or aluminum foil and leave the birds to rest for around 30 minutes or so.

Now that the chickens have had plenty of time to absorb the flavours and rest, remove them from your wrap, and gently pull off the tender meat and discard the BBQ chicken juices. A Weber Smoky Mountain or Big Green Egg are ideal smokers for 2-4 medium sized roasting chickens but you can use any smoking apparatus that you have to hand and cook as many as you wish according to the amount of people you have to feed using the same recipe.

Cooking "low-and-slow" on your smoker or grill is the best way to go if you are looking for the best tasting BBQ chicken. Lowering cooking times and turning up the temperature will allow you to serve your meats faster to your guests, but the results will not be as good.

Once you have removed the wings and legs, carefully cut along the breastbone of each chicken and cut it into a few pieces to your liking. You should notice how tender the meat is as you will observe all of the remaining moisture in the meat because you have cooked your chicken to perfection. It is now time to serve the meat to your guests and enjoy that delicious BBQ chicken taste.

BBQ Chicken Recipe - How to Make the Most Tender BBQ Chicken

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Outdoor BBQ Party Planning Ideas

It is really awesome when friends and family have a chance to sit together and share the feelings of love and happiness and one such time is when anyone plans to have a BBQ party in their backyard. I know that you have come so far in search of how you can celebrate a BBQ party. I hope this article would provide you with the information that you are looking for. First of all when you are planning for a BBQ party just keep a close eye on the weather because that is a major factor in determining whether your party is going to work out as planned.

For the BBQ party, you must design creative invitations that your guests would love to stick on their fridge. After you have sorted out the invitations, you can start thinking about the different ways to decorate your house. I think it would be really cool if you would decorate the path to your backyard with lights or candles, which would highlight the way to the party area. For the party area, you need to put up a canopy so that the guests can have shade or prevent themselves from getting soaked from rain.

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There are many BBQ parties that just turn into a failure because there are no repellents to keep the mosquitoes at bay, which results in a nuisance and a source of irritation to all the guests, who seek to move inside the home to prevent themselves from mosquito bites. You should have the complete BBQ equipment, as well as all the stuff marinated and ready to be BBQd. Have paper plates and paper cups with you to prevent yourself from doing excess dishing, which can be a lot of work after the party is over. There are also a lot of other ideas that you can incorporate in your party to make it a success. Happy BBQ.

Outdoor BBQ Party Planning Ideas

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How to Cook Barbeque Ribs

Nothing says barbeque quite like a rack of ribs covered in finger licking good barbeque sauce. If prepared correctly there is nothing better than bbq ribs. But for many people barbequing ribs can be difficult because they need to be slow cooked to bring out the flavor and taste. Slow cooking ribs on a grill is an art form that can be hard to duplicate if you don't have the patience or know how to do it right. But never fear there are ways to take the guess work out of how to cook barbeque ribs.

First off let's look at the different types of ribs you can barbeque.

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o Pork Baby Back Ribs - Probably the most well known and easiest to cook. They are tender and can be cooked quickly on the grill.

How to Cook Barbeque Ribs

o Pork Spare Ribs - These are bigger than baby back ribs and take quite a bit longer to cook.

o Beef Ribs - The largest of all ribs they take a considerable amount of time to cook, particularly if you want them to be tender as they are tougher than pork ribs. It is best to braise them before grilling

o Beef Short Ribs - Also need to be slow cooked to bring out the tenderness. Much like beef ribs.

The problem most people have when it comes to barbequing ribs is either overcooking them, which leads to dry and tough ribs, or not cooking them long enough which can be a potential health hazard. One would guess that that is why most of the time they get overcooked.

There are ways around this problem. You can pre-cook your ribs either by boiling, steaming or slow cooking them in the oven before you put them on the grill. Make sure you pre-season your ribs before using these methods as this will help bring out the flavor in your ribs. Many people boil or steam their ribs with beer which not only adds flavor but also tenderizes the meat making it fall off the bone. You can pre-cook your ribs from anywhere from 1 to 4 hours depending on which method you are using.

Once they have been pre-cooked just throw them on the grill for 5-10 minutes a side and brush on your favorite barbeque sauce. Before you know it you will have perfectly grilled ribs that are ready to eat.

How to Cook Barbeque Ribs

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BBQ Party Games - Making Your BBQ Fun

If you're having a BBQ party, games are sure to make the occasion enjoyable. Here are a few tried and true favourites:

"Human Scavenger Hunt" BBQ Party Game

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In terms of outdoor BBQ party games, this one is fantastic if you have guests who don't know (or at least a lot about) each other. Prior to the party, create a list of categories that people may fall into, giving one copy to each guest. Examples include "someone who shares the same shoe size as you", "someone who speaks a foreign language", or "someone who is a baseball enthusiast". Guests must mingle and talk with each other until they are able to find someone who meets each of the categories on the sheet.

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"Water Balloon Volleyball" BBQ Party Game

If it's the middle of summer and there are going to be children at your BBQ party, games like this are fantastic to beat the heat. Prior to the party fill up LOTS of water balloons gather a collection of old towels and set up a "net" (or even a section of lawn with a piece of rope across the middle) in the backyard. Children split into two even teams and pair up with someone else in their team. Give each pair a towel. This BBQ party game begins with a pair from one team placing a water-balloon in their towel, and using it to toss the balloon over the line. The throwing and catching continues until one team misses, giving the other team 1 point. The first team to 10 points wins.

BBQ Party Games - Making Your BBQ Fun