| The grilling fire is the beginning of the grilling process. | | | | 2" beyond the area of the food on the grill. This will |
| Without a proper barbeque grilling fire, you can't | | | | give you a good barbeque grilling fire. |
| expect to be a real grill master. | | | | Place the briquettes in the charcoal BBQ grill pan to |
| Building your charcoal bbq grill cooking fire is more | | | | determine the quantity then stack them up in a |
| than just opening up the bag, dumping in the | | | | pyramid shape to light. Soak the briquettes with |
| charcoal, dousing it with lighter fluid and throwing on a | | | | approximately 1/2 cup of lighter fluid, and let set for |
| match. The key to a good grilling fire is to have an | | | | a few minutes before lighting. Once the coals have |
| even fire. You need to evenly distribute the coals to | | | | begun to burn and ash starts to form arrange them |
| minimize temperature variation and get good, even | | | | with long handled tongs into a single layer. To have |
| grilling. | | | | controlled temperature variation in your charcoal BBQ |
| The number of charcoal briquettes you use will | | | | grill fire, a hot area and a not so hot area (called a |
| depend on the size of your grill, the amount of food | | | | two level fire), set up half of your fire grate in a |
| you will be cooking, weather conditions and cooking | | | | single layer of coals and the other half in two or |
| time. | | | | three layers of coals. This will give you the hot and |
| As a general rule of thumb, when using charcoal | | | | medium areas in your barbeque grilling fire to do your |
| briquettes, plan on using about 30 briquettes to cook | | | | cooking. Use this method if you are cooking different |
| 1 pound of meat. Make sure that you are using | | | | types of foods at the same time. |
| enough charcoal briquettes to cover the charcoal | | | | Happy grilling! |
| BBQ grill pan in a single layer and extending out about | | | | |