Axiom Home Page Forums General Discussion The Water Cooler First timer with BBq'ing (tips?)

Your meat thermometer is evil. Evil, I tells you! 170? That's not well done, that's graphite.

Mmm carbon steak.

Bren R.

Mmm. Cake.

My thermometer says 120 130 140 160 for rare medium rare medium well and well. I find the steak keeps gooking so if you pull it at 150 it'll be well done by the time it hits the table. Also thickness varies this a little as well.

As a Weber charcoal BBQ owner and a Rib enthusiast (we have had an annual family rib competition for 6 years) There is only 1 way to do ribs. Braise them and then finish with some dry heat on the hot grill and sauce them as they come off. The meat falls off the bone! With the right sauce -- thems good eatin'!

And of course drink lots of beer....

Smoke ribs on the bbq tomorrow.

A friend is putting on the show with his new Kenmore cooker.
He plans on cooking them all day so i hope he knows what he's doing. Otherwise we'll all be chewing leather for dinner.
I may have to skip the dinner and stick with the liquid course.

I like a nice T-Bone steak with just a little seasoning salt and if its 3/4" thick or so about 5-7 min on one side at 350-400 and 5-7 on the other and you have medium rare to medium depending on the actual thickness and temps.

I am with Bren, if I am in doubt I cut it open, better safe than sick.

Woah, a lot of msgs in this topic.

Ok, well I did BBQ first time and it was awesome! I will explain more about this with pics tommorrow or in the next few days depending on my schedule.