Mastering The Art Of Grilling & Smoking Your Meats At Home
Who doesn’t love the aroma of freshly grilled and smoked food in the summer? With enough experience on the grill and proper execution, some delicious meals can come from grilling and smoking meats. It’s true that both of these methods share some similar qualities, but they both prepare meats in their own unique ways. This post will detail the differences between both of these methods and provide some strategies to grill and smoke food at home like a professional.
Let’s start by detailing the process of grilling. Grilling includes cooking food with either indirect or direct heat. This heat then produces a hatred surface in order to seal in natural juices and flavors of the food. Typically grilling is done on charcoal or gas grills, but rarely it will be done on infrared grills. Grilling is a much faster process than smoking. Specifically direct grilling, so what you do to prepare food like steaks, chicken breasts or pork chops. Indirect grilling is the slower alternative, which cooks foods low and slow; typically done on meats like ribs, briskets or pork shoulders. (more…)