The Eight Commandments For Grilling

The Eight Commandments For Grilling

Now we're ready to begin, right? Not yet! Some barbecue
sauce basics should be covered first. These recipes are a
very good basic education. Once you are comfortable making
various types of sauces, you'll probably want to concoct
your own, and you should. However, every aspiring sauce
inventor should follow these sauce commandments.


1. Follow directions to the letter. If the recipe calls for
a certain ingredient, don't ignore it (at least the first
couple of times you use it). The people who have developed
these sauces have used these specific ingredients in the
recipe.

2. Use accurate measurements. I know firsthand the
temptation to add just a pinch of that and a dollop of this
when making sauces, but how can you recreate a sauce
masterpiece if you don't measure the ingredients as you go?

3. Always use the freshest ingredients possible. You'll
wind up with better-tasting sauces. It never pays to cut
corners on your ingredients.

4. Strive for balance in all things. If you are using
pungent woods such as hickory, mesquite, oak, or pecan in
your barbecuing or grilling, you'll have better results
using a lighter-flavored sauce than one that will compete
with the meat and smoke. Too many conflicting tastes will
ultimately ruin your hard work.

5. Remember that sauces are meant to complement your
cooking, not hide it. View barbecue sauces as condiments,
the same way mustard and ketchup enhance a hot dog.
Barbecue sauce should help draw out the flavor of your
barbecued and grilled meats, not overpower it.

6. Write everything down! You'll be thinking up all sorts
of interesting combinations of liquids, spices, herbs, and
flavors, and mixing up one heck of a recipe, but when you
want to recreate it later you will forget how you did it!
Don't waste that precious culinary inspiration. Write down
exactly what you do every time you make up a new sauce.
Your creation could become the next big seller!

7. Experiment. Hey, variety is the spice of life! You'd be
surprised how a little experimentation can lead to a truly
tasty discovery in the kitchen.

8. Most of all have fun! Cooking is an activity you can
enjoy by yourself or with friends and family. Nothing
brings more people together with big, happy smiles than
well-prepared barbecue, complemented by a sauce you've made
from scratch.

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