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Cook Up Your Best Meal Ever in a BBQ Pit
If you’d like to enjoy real barbeque with traditional flavor and style, consider building a BBQ pit. Cooking in a BBQ pit enhances the absorption of heat and smoke into the meat. The taste is out of this world.
This style of outdoor cooking is perfect for roasts and large cuts of meat. If your pit is big enough, it’s possible to cook a whole pig or a section of beef. Keep in mind that this is a slow process and can take upwards of 10 hours to fully cook.
There are essentially two different kinds of open BBQ pits you could build: the traditional or the modern. The traditional BBQ pit is essentially a hole in the ground. You then fill it up with wood or coal and set it on fire.
You can cook your food by placing it on a skewer and holding it over the fire. You can also lay a grill over the flames to hold the meat. You can even wrap up your food in foil and place it in the coals once the fire has gone out.
The modern open pit is usually an above ground BBQ. It’s generally built from concrete, stone or brick. A BBQ pit features a firebox where the wood or briquettes can smolder. You install a grill at a level that isn’t too close to the coals so the meat won’t burn.
There are a couple of ways you can cook your food in an open pit BBQ. You can use either indirect or direct heat. Direct heat cooking means that your food is cooked directly over the flame or heat of the burning coals. To help control the temperature, the fire is usually located on one side of the pit and the food is placed away from it on the other side. This method cooks your food relatively quickly and is perfect for tender cuts of meat.
You can also use indirect heat to cook your meat, which is sometimes called pit cooking. Indirect heat will cook your food at a low temperature over a prolonged period of time. You start by lighting a fire and letting it burn for a while so the pit can absorb the heat. The goal is to build up a lot of heat in the interior of the pit.
The fire is then put out and the meat is placed onto the grill. Then you’ll have to place a cover over the pit. The heat that has been absorbed into the sides of the pit will do the job of cooking the meat. This is a much slower method of cooking, and is best suited for tougher cuts of meat. Some people consider it to the best BBQ you can eat.
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