Ideas For A Barbeque Place At Your Home
Welcome the wonderful experience of a perfect, delectable barbecue in your own backyard. Barbecue, Barbeques or BBQ cuisine originated in the United States of America during the late 1800’s, it is also popular in Canada, United Kingdom, New Zealand, Australia and most recently in India.
Barbecue or barbeque is process of slow cooking meat, fish, poultry or pork at low temperatures with heat and hot smoke. The fuel commonly utilized for providing the heat and smoke is charcoal, but at times can be substituted with coal, wood or Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG).
Apparatus Required
For barbequing at home, a grill – apparatus, known as barbecue grill along with a pair of tongs is used. Though, restaurants usually employ brick ovens or metal ovens for this purpose.
Making Barbeque Ovens at home
Brick Barbeque Pit– To make a barbeque, the best option is to seek for brick barbeque pit, which is the easiest of all and could be easily set-up. This set-up is good for events like outdoor parties or picnics, as this also calls for active participation from all the members.
To set up a brick barbeque, a place of convenience that neither far from the kitchen, nor should it be located anywhere close to inflammable materials or places with winds blowing, needs to be chosen. An area covered with a shade could be best for rainy seasons.
The ideal area required comprises of a four – by – four feet of space with a depth of a minimum of six inches. This should be followed by placing bricks and concreting the structure. It is also advisable to build a slope from front to back, so as to provide for rainwater draining. The usage of this structure, though, could only be done after at least forty-eight, so as to provide ample time for the structure to dry up.
While the structure is under construction, the shape of barbeque kiln could be given by placing grills and fire/drip pan, which should be placed at a height difference of five – six inches.
Ready-made Barbeque Ovens
In case, that there is shortage of space or just short time, one can opt for readymade barbeque ovens available in the market. These ovens provide with the ease of putting charcoals and smoking the barbeque. They are also easy to re-locate as against the case of brick barbeque pit.
Techniques of Barbequing
There a different techniques of barbequing. A few are explained below.
- Smoking: This technique employs cooking the meat at lower temperatures using smoke, at around 115° – 125° C. This technique requires a lot of patience as it takes a long duration to cook the meat. During this technique, the lid of the oven is covered, thereby allowing a thick, hot smoke to develop underneath it, thus giving the meat a distinct taste of its own.
- Baking: This technique employs the masonry oven to cook the meat. The technique employed is convection heating, and the cooking is normally done in about an hour and half. The baking technique is similar to smoking, the only difference being that it also allows the usage of flames along with smoke to cook the meat.
- Braising: It is a technique which requires frequent change in temperatures, going from fast to slow, and then again fast. The technique last for few hours, while employing direct dry heat charbroiling on a grooved surface with a broth-filled pot that provides with soggy heat.
