| Simple easy to follow and often overlooked | | | | serve the food hot off the grill, when it's usually at |
| common-sense advice that will guarantee success at | | | | its best, set the table well ahead. Grilling is easy when |
| any barbecue. | | | | you're ready, but not when you're not. Think Grate |
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| accentuates the natural flavor of food more than | | | | hot, and lightly oiled before you begin. Preheat the |
| any other cooking method. When you cook | | | | grate with the grill covered while the charcoal or gas |
| something fast with dry heat, you cook it true and | | | | heating element reaches cooking temperature. Right |
| nothing you can do with seasoning or techniques will | | | | before you put on the food, brush the warm surface |
| change the essential quality. The choice of ingredients | | | | with a thin coat of oil to prevent sticking. When |
| is so important in grilling that we include extensive | | | | you're done, scrub the grate with a wire brush to |
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| Subtlety The crusted, browned flavor of barbecue | | | | grilling. An instant-read meat thermometer is seldom |
| grilled food gains heft and dimension from many | | | | practical because barbecue grill cuts are usually too |
| assertive seasonings, but your touch has to be gentle | | | | small to allow accurate measurements. Recipes |
| enough to protect the inherent taste of your main | | | | provide general guidance on doneness for different |
| ingredient. Go intense but easy, hearty but not | | | | types of food, but also watch the clock carefully |
| heavy-handed, striving to add layers of savor that | | | | while you grill and pay attention to the suggested |
| enrich both the character of the food and its grill | | | | cooking times for each dish. The times given in any |
| flavor. If you mask the underlying tastes by piling on | | | | grill recipe are always approximate because of the |
| the spices or sauce, you've achieved nothing by | | | | many factors that can affect a quick, high-heat |
| grilling. It's better to tilt toward simplicity -- some fine | | | | cooking process. You'll often need to cut into meat, |
| ingredients don't need much more than salt and | | | | poke a fork into fish, or nibble on a vegetable to get |
| pepper anyway -- but the optimum end is balanced | | | | the irrefutable inside evidence. No matter what |
| complexity. Organize Your Grilling In Advance The | | | | anyone says, it's better for you to do the checking |
| cooking goes so quickly that it's important to have | | | | at the grill than to leave the job to your guests at |
| everything in place before you start. Prepare yourself | | | | the table. Undercooked food can be dangerous as |
| by going through each step in your mind, reviewing | | | | well as unpleasant to find on your plate. So sum up, |
| what you'll need as you proceed. Line up ingredients, | | | | subtlety, good quality ingredients, careful preparation |
| seasonings, and cooking utensils and place them | | | | and correctly cooked food will ensure that your |
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| and any other useful recipe details. If you intend to | | | | |