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Guide to Grilling using the Main Burners and Direct Cooking Method
Grilling Steak and Ribs
Turn the grill Burners on HIGH, close the Lid and preheat
your grill 3 to 5 minutes. Open Lid and place the meat on
the Cooking Grid directly above the lit Burners. Cook the
meat on both sides until seared. Reduce the heat to
MEDIUM and cook meat until done. Grilling times will vary
according to meat thickness.
Grilling Hamburgers and Sausages
Turn the grill Burners on HI/IGN, close Lid and preheat
your grill 3 to 5 minutes. Open Lid and place the meat on
the Cooking Grid directly above the lit Burners. Cook the
meat on both sides until seared. Reduce the heat to
MEDIUM and cook the meat until done. Grilling times will
vary according to meat thickness.
Grilling Poultry
Turn the grill Burners on HI/IGN, close Lid and preheat
your grill 2 to 3 minutes. Then raise the Lid, reduce heat to
MEDIUM and cook poultry directly over lit Burners until
done. Poultry skin is fatty so you should expect some
flare-ups when using this direct method.
To minimize flare-ups, try grilling poultry using the indirect
method. Place the poultry on one side of the grill with the
opposing Burners on MEDIUM heat, and lower the grill
Lid. Grilling times will vary based on the size of your
poultry.
Grilling Pork
Turn Burners on HI/IGN and preheat your grill 3 to 5
minutes with the Lid closed. Raise Lid, place pork on
Cooking Grid and cook until seared. Reduce heat to
MEDIUM and cook until done. Grilling times will vary
according to meat thickness.
Whole Fish and Whole Fillets
Preheat your grill on HI/IGN for 2-3 minutes with the Lid
down. Raise lid and turn Burners to MEDIUM heat. Place
fish (skin down) on grill and cook over direct heat until
done. Use cooking time as a guide or until fish is opaque
but still moist.
Smaller Fish Fillets and Cubes
Follow the directions from above, using approximate
cooking times shown at right. Place a small piece of
aluminum foil on the Cooking Grids if the fish pieces are
small enough to drop between the Cooking Grids.
Vegetables and Fruit
Prepare your fruit or vegetables and brush with butter or
basting sauce if desired. To cook
indirectly,
the food
should be placed on the left or right side of your grill
with
the Burner lit on the opposite side and the grill lid down.
Or center your food on the Secondary Cooking Rack and
light the outer grill Burners. Either way,
indirect cooking
must be done with the Lid down
.
In some instances, you may want to grill vegetables and
fruit
directly
over the heat, using the supplied Cooking
Grids. Foods that work best with direct heat are relatively
soft and require a short cooking time: mushrooms,
zucchini, tomatoes and skewered fruit such as apricots,
peaches, pineapple, strawberries and kiwis. Remember
the
Grill Lid must remain up when cooking directly.
Cut of Meat
T-bone steak
Sirloin steak
Beef spare ribs
Porterhouse steak
New York strip steak
Hamburgers
Sausages
Chicken breast
(cook with bone down)
Chicken wings
Drumsticks
Whole bird
(cook with breast up)
Chops
Loins
Cutlets
Whole fish
Whole fish fillets
Fish fillets
Boneless cubes
Approximate Cooking Times
Rare:
4-8 minutes
Medium:
10-14 minutes
Well done:
15-20 minutes
Rare:
4-6 minutes
Medium:
8-10 minutes
Well done:
10-15 minutes
Direct method:
approximately 15 minutes
Indirect method:
up to 30 minutes
Indirect method:
approximately 1 hour
Medium:
10-14 minutes
Well done:
15-20 minutes
10 - 12 minutes per pound or
until fish is opaque
4 - 5 minutes each side
or until fish is opaque
For very firm vegetables—particularly potatoes and yams,
we recommend that you partially boil until almost cooked,
before placing them on the grill. Cooking times using the
indirect method
with the lid down will be similar to those
for your kitchen oven. However, there are many factors
such as outside temperature, wind conditions and
location of grill that affect your grill performance so we
suggest you watch the temperature gauge and adjust the
heat accordingly.
Cooking times for foods prepared with the
direct method
will be much shorter mainly because of the direct heat
source and softness of the food. Timing will be compa-
rable to normal pan frying or grilling.
