As the snow starts to melt are you getting the itch to grill? Here are some refresher tips from Billy Bristol to get you thinking about cooking outdoors again.
Good barbeque and grilling tips are essential for learning how to barbeque or how to grill. Your average backyard cook is no expert in the barbeque or grilling field. He has no television shows on the Food Network. He has no grilling cookbooks out. Nor has any of those been part of his lifetime goal.
No, your average outdoor cooking enthusiast makes more mistakes with bbq grilling than you could ever imagine. The meat ends up dry and tough time after time, despite marinating for hours. Or the meat is burnt or cooked too long.
These mistakes are made time and time again because your average backyard cook usually does not know any different. He receives few good bbq and grilling tips.
Here are some of the more common mistakes and do's and don'ts made in bbq grill cooking:
1) If you started with frozen meat, make sure the meat is thawed completely. Trying to cook the inside of a still-frozen piece of meat is next to impossible without burning the outside.
2) When using a charcoal grill, try to start the fire without charcoal lighter fluid. Lighter fluid taste will always get into your meat no matter how much you cook the coals down first. A chimney starter makes starting the fire a breeze. It also allows you to add charcoal along the way should the coals burn out along the way...
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The Grilling Season is Upon Us
Viking C4 Outdoor Cooker
Product Features:
Reduce Cooking Times for C4 Cooker
Eat sooner as a short preheat time and intense infrared heat sizzles thick, juicy steaks, seafood or vegetables.
Commercial Type Styling
Cook like a pro with durable 18-gauge spun stainless steel construction and commercial-type styling.
Easy Cleanup
Spend more time creating and less time cleaning with a removable porcelain grate and with a virtual non-stick surface.
Thermometer
Stay on top of the heat with our canopy thermometer that gives precise readings from 150-750 degrees F
Temperature Control
Maintain heat with top and bottom dampers which allow regulation of airflow and temperature control.
Elliptical Airflow
Elliptical airflow circulates the heat and locks in natural flavors.
Ceramic Interior
The ceramic interior provides maximum heat retention for quick cooking times.
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Dacor Renaissance
Today's Press Release:
Dacor(R), market leader in luxury kitchen appliance design, manufacturing and distribution, today introduced the new Renaissance(TM) Wall Oven in 36", 30" and 27" widths for the Epicure and Millennia Collections, greatly expanding the brand's premium cooking appliance offerings.
The new wall ovens exemplify Renaissance thinking with a design that celebrates the luxurious style of the classic wall oven combined with cutting- edge performance details, to create an appliance that will breathe new life into the kitchen. The result is a wall oven that true epicureans will love and novice cooks can use with ease.
"It is truly a new beginning for the traditional wall oven. We have paired the classic styling and reliability of our signature wall ovens with current touch technology to develop an appliance that performs like no other in its class," said Elaine Chaney, Senior Vice President of Marketing and Sales for Dacor. "Dacor is extremely excited to introduce the collection of new Renaissance Wall Ovens to the market, opening the door to a broader range of consumers who will now have the opportunity to experience Dacor's commitment to details firsthand."
DETAILS THAT ELEGANTLY INSPIRE COOKING PERFECTION
The Renaissance Wall Oven operates like six individual ovens, with a combination of cooking options that will release the hidden chef in anyone. Whether the consumer uses Bake, Broil, Convection Bake, Convection Broil, Convection Roast, Pure Convection(TM), or Proof preparing any meal will be an effortless task using any one of the intuitive cooking modes.
The exclusive Pure Convection technology helps create uniform temperatures on every level of the oven cell and features a unique filter, which allows home chefs to cook multiple items at the same time without the worry of flavor transfer. Now, every entree and hors d'oevours, even the baked brie and stuffed mushrooms with bacon and the oven-steamed mussels with lime ginger butter, can be heated together without the fear of tastes blending.
The 30" and 27" models feature the patented RapidHeat(TM) Bake Element to ensure even baking, fast preheating and accurate temperature control. Safely protected from spills and drips, the glass-covering makes for trouble-free cleanup and provides more baking space across the bottom of the oven.
The Epicure style Renaissance Wall Oven is available in 36", 30", 27" widths in a commercial-inspired stainless steel finish and handles with interchangeable trim caps in color options of chrome, brass, copper and black chrome. The Millennia models are available in 30" and 27" widths with a contemporary black or stainless steel finish to coordinate with both the Millennia and Epicure Collection appliances. Each model features a new electronic control panel, which offers consumers a stylish look utilizing innovative touch technology.
The Renaissance Wall Oven will be available at authorized Dacor dealers in February 2008.
