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Covered Cooking
Cooking with the Hood Closed
Using the roasting hood traps heat, moisture and flavour that is normally lost on an
open top barbeque. The Ziegler and Brown Triple Grill is designed with plenty of power
to heat up quickly and cook lots of food with the hood either open or closed. With the
hood closed and the barbeque already pre-heated, its important to then turn burners to
LOW
and to
OFF
as required, in order to not overheat the barbeque which could result in
increased temperature hazards and burning your food.
NEVER
let the temperature on the
thermometer read over 250ºC.
For covered cooking, there are two basic ways to cook:
(A) Direct Cooking and (B) Indirect Cooking
(A) Covered Cooking-Direct Cooking Method
This is when you place the food directly over the lit burners, either on the grills, the
optional hotplates, the optional baking dish, the optional pizza stone or the optional
warming rack.
This method is great for frying, searing and grilling, especially with thinner cuts and foods
that require shorter cooking time. Cooking takes less time than with the hood open, and the
results are more tender and juicy. Preheat the barbeque with all burners on
HIGH
and the
hood closed for three minutes until the hood thermometer reads around 200ºC. Importantly,
once the barbeque is pre-heated and the hood is closed, heat is trapped around the food,
so the burners will often need to be turned to
LOW
and in many cases, one or more of the
burners
OFF
. Heat from the lit burner(s) will circulate all through the hood cooking quite
evenly. Very fatty foods like sausages, can be cooked completely above the
OFF
burners,
retaining juiciness and flavour without risk of flare-up that results only in burning. Quite
close attention needs to be paid to the food, and the burners frequently reset to
LOW
or
OFF
as required to prevent overheating.
Don’t be afraid to open the hood often to check progress. You are in full control of the
temperature by turning burners higher, lower or
OFF
as required. The gas burners
will respond instantly and powerfully to your control. Most importantly, use the hood
thermometer as a warning guide that the barbeque is too hot. For grilling most foods,
aim to keep the thermometer below around 200ºC.
NEVER
let the temperature on the
thermometer reach over 250ºC or the barbeque may overheat and burn your food. A
separate probe thermometer is available as an accessory from all Barbeques Galore
stores. This takes the guesswork out of knowing when your food is cooked.
Always remember to switch the barbeque OFF once you are finished cooking
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