Beef and your barbeque go together when it comes to summer grilling time. Whether you are grilling burgers, steaks or dogs, there is nothing like the taste of barbecue beef and the texture can compare to nothing else, barbequed or not.
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.
To avoid the dangers of food poisoning you should take precautions when cooking raw meat. Every year thousands are taken seriously ill after eating food from 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.
Avid and competition grillers believe that by applying a dry rub to meat before it is grilled gives it the best flavor. Other grillers apply liquid smoke to meats such as beef brisket to give it an incredible flavor. Onions, celery and salt are also commonly used on this type of meat to create a succulent flavor that all will enjoy.
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.
Another tip for your bbq beef is to allow it to stand for a while to allow it to finish cooking, about 15 minutes is enough. This will seal in the juices and make cutting the beef much easier.
