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Bbq Beef Can Be Enjoyed All Year Long

The word beef and the word barbeque are hard to part when it comes to summer time grilling. It doesn't matter if you are grilling steak, burgers or beef dogs, nothing beats the great taste of barbecued beef.

Even when it is the middle of the winter you can still satisfy your need for barbequed beef when the urge takes you. You will find many recipes that are available on the internet and in bookstores that show you to cook with a slow cooker that will have the same lovely flavors as if you had cooked your beef on an outdoor grill.

Here is a great way to enjoy beef dogs that both child and child at heart will relish. Its a proven hit with everyone year after year.

Slice your dogs from top to bottom making the cut about half way deep. Put some very thinly sliced cheese inside your dogs and then wrap a rasher of bacon around each. Cook them under your boiler or on the grill until the cheese is oozing out. They taste great and kids love them. As an alternative you can replace the cheese with minced onion but remember, few kids enjoy the taste of onion.

When you barbeque raw meat there are several protocols which must be adhered to if you, a member of your family or a friend are not to be one of the thousands who end up with food poisoning because the food was not cooked thoroughly on the barbeque.

A common mistake is to put the sauce on raw meat. Not only will this impare the flavor because the sauce will seal the meat, keeping out the bbq flavor, but it will also pass any bacteria from meat to meat as it is carried on your sauce brush.

Keen and competition grillers tend to apply a dry rub to their meat before it is grilled because they believe it brings out the best flavors. Other grillers will tell you to apply liquid smoke to your meats such as beef brisket will bring out the best flavor. Others use onions, celery and salt to create a succulent flavor. Experiment and try different things until you are happy with the taste.

Heating barbeque sauce is common practice for many grillers. They heat the sauce and apply it to the meat when it has been cooking for a while. By heating the sauce first, it eliminates some of the time it takes for the meat to reach the proper temperature.

When the barbeque beef is done, it should sit for about ten to fifteen minutes to allow it to finish cooking and cool down. This not only makes cutting the meat easier, it also seals in the juices of the meat. Any juices that are left over can be simmered and reduced to make gravy for open-faced sandwiches.

By: chef rodgers

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For many more fantastic barbeque recipes and tips visit The Outdoor Cooking Book. Or for other types and styles of cooking try Chefs website, The Cooking Book.
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