I like to cook over real fire! If a gas grill, charcoal grill, smoker grill, fire pit or even in my fireplace, kitchen with fireplace makes it fun and creates unique and delicious aromas and flavors that enhance many foods much. But by far my favorite way to cook a real wood fire of hardwood. While good charcoal and smoker cooking definitely give you some nice char-grilled aromas of wood, there's nothing better than a real wood fire. There's something very primitive andromantic return to a pre-modern times when food was completely cooked a wood fireplace.
Most people do not use real wood to cook anymore because technology has things easier for us. Between gas stoves and grills and easy to light charcoal, cooking with fire is quick, easy and relatively stress-free day. However, there will be something said for a quiet afternoon, with the construction of a real fire, and then that fire perfectly cooked grilled meal.Sometimes I do not want "fast", "easy" or the absolute minimum.
So are all the grids are those who think like I am a little 'more primitive and many other tasty like cooking, here are some tips for dealing with real wood on the grill, fireplace or even in your fireplace. It takes some time and some practice to get right, but I think you'll like the results!
Select Hardwood Good
In the heart of the forest large kitchen is good for firewood, the long, hot burnsand gives friendly flavors. Do not skimp in this department! All smoky, roasted flavor that you have in your food from the wood so bad if you use wood, the results are bad. So, what is evil? Especially avoid conifers in general.
Softwoods burn easily and hot but not burn so long and do not tend to develop long-lasting embers in their nuclei. Softwoods such as pine, for example, usually very resinous and Piney or do many other strong odors, thoughnot bad, not good pair with food. Softwood can to help the fire started, but what you really want is a good thing for most of your firewood, seasoned wood.
Hardwoods are denser and will burn longer and hotter. They take longer to start, but the extra work was worth it. There are dozens of hard woods that make fuel for cooking, some of which have very different and delicious aromas and flavors. Oak is very common, which gives a rich flavor and smokey.I prefer berries and nuts, as they tend to a gentle, almost sweet flavor. Some excellent choices are made of almond, apple, pear and pecan wood, if you can find them. Most people are familiar with mesquite and hickory smoking room did not, but they are also excellent hardwoods for fuel. If you happen in a vineyard, old vine cuttings of living wood makes it great for rapid fire!
Create your Make Ahead
As I said, starting the fire of hardwood may take some time for real. Start Furthermore, since you have embers as much as possible like cooking, you want to burn something for your fire a chance as possible before throwing food at the top. This can be quite a long time, and according to plan how much you cook and how big is your fire pit or grill is, literally, this can take several hours to light a fire for food to build a core of coals, and then let the flames die great for cooking first. It should be noted, as I usually doprefer this type of wood fire to cook a home to do an outdoor barbecue grill, which many people do not realize that you can burn a wood fire in the charcoal grill more serious, until it is large enough. I have the great Weber 22-1/2 "charcoal kettle grills used with good success and some Char-Broil charcoal grill.
Cooking with Embers
As mentioned above, when cooking with firewood, cooking on the grill is the perfect warm. Why? A new fire that has just started not togive a lot of heat. In addition, there are huge flames rising from the forest. When you insert a barbecue grill of this young man does not lose much radiant heat and flames, instead of having to open our own food. This means disaster for the grill! Food does not cook very quickly in and out will catch fire and burn to a crisp in no time!
To avoid this and to get the most from your firewood, take your time and start early. Red glowTons of heat emission and have large flames. If cooking in a fire pit or large grill, start early and extend the firewood for a while 'to build a deep core of hot, grilled red at the bottom. Then you can burn the wooden top, leaving you little flame, just a big, deep pile of red embers. These embers give a lot of heat and flames because large, are less likely to char your food to a crisp. Only then should you put your barbecue grilland add your food. If you cook a lot and the heat starts to die, stirring the embers with a poker, it helps get more oxygen to the wood and raise the heat for some time. If you really need more fuel, you can add wood to the side and just slide over, under the cooking area, when they burned down and no longer with large flames.
Rotisserie cooking
One way a lot of cooking fuel to the fire to get is to use a rotisserie. There are several rotisserieDevices that can be purchased at barbecues and camping stores. These are basically a big engine or hand-turned on a spit that turns your fireplace. This has advantages for several reasons. Especially for large roasts, such as whole poultry, pigs and other large roasts, it gives you a lot, too, the constant heat throughout the cooking of meat, so the food stays juicy and have a uniform way.
Even for these larger roasts, can burn directly on hot coalsSurface, long before the inside is too hot. Finally, the rotisserie can hold the food a considerable distance over a wood fire so that you can cook on the stove without burning the food. If high enough, just get the heat going up, not the actual fire, the food, which is rotated perfectly into aromatic smoke. Therefore, the preparation time is reduced because there is no need to burn the wood for the fire first, although some also help coal, sufficient heat is applied. For the leg of lamb grilledand whole chickens and wild game, rotisserie cooking in a fire pit is one of my favorites!
Fireplace kitchen
In winter it is often too cold outside, outdoor cooking. However, many of us have a beautiful wooden kitchen real right in our homes, even if some of us are unaware. Most fireplaces are only for the warmth and atmosphere of these days, but years ago it was the primary cooking area in many homes. I love cooking and it is not as difficult as most peoplethinking. For most types of cooking fireplace, special equipment is needed. There are cranes available fire to cook a stew pot or kettle over the fire power of nice to stews, soups or coffee. Fireplace grill available, which is basically a barbecue grill that fits over your wood in the fireplace and grill lets you grill any number of foods.
Even fireplace grills available that are right in front of the fireplace and slowly turn your roast. But if youdo not want to invest in additional equipment, there's always strings transformed cooking fireplace. Traditionally, one way to roast a leg of lamb before the fire that I adapted to rotate a string array of different types of roasts, roast poultry from all over to tri-tip. All you need is a long piece of rope kitchen and a screw or hook your mantle over the fireplace installed. The weight of the roast that rotates slowly, so you have a rotisserie poor man, no extra ropeEquipment!
An alternative
Finally, if all the above seems too much work and too much effort, there are simpler alternatives to wood smoke flavor to infuse into your food. Smoking with wood chips or pieces or grid or grid option is a dedicated smoker. Kitchen smoker can really give you rich, aromatic smoke flavors in your food. But since you are using standard wood or coal gas as an energy source, avoids much of the drudgery of cooking with realFirewood.
I hope these tips help you to start cooking with wood fire to cook on the barbecue to bring a new level of fun and flavor. Remember, always be sure when you fire any kind! Follow all the basic rules of fire safety so that only the food is cooked!
