Tuesday, September 27, 2011

Matches......

How would you use matches when it comes to cooking?  Matches gives you fire that helps you expand the flavor of your food.  Be it that you are grilling, baking, roasting, saute' or even smoking.

Let us talk about smoking and how matches get it started.  If you have a char-broil grill you will need the matches to help get things going.  After you have soaked your wood chips in water and added fuel to your charcoal, you would need to have something to light it with, that is where matches comes in.  You would open your box of matches and strike it on the side of the box for it to ignite.  Once the match is lit you would then carefully place it on your charcoal so your coal will get out and make your wood chips start to smoke.  Once the charcoal is lit, blow out the match so you will not get burned.  While this is all coming together you have time to gather up the products that you want to smoke.  It can be different kind of proteins, vegetable, fruit or even cheeses.  When it comes to the protein, I would have to say that it is very important to have a meat thermometer so you can keep an eye on the internal temperature of your meat.  I picked one up at Wal-Mart and I love it.  The probe goes into the meat to the center then it has a cable that is couple of feet long that connects to a base.  You have a body that is detachable from the base.  So while your smoker is going.  You don't need to go back and forth to look at the temperature.  The body is wi-fi to the base so you know that whole time your smoker is going.  The only thing that you would need to do is to continue to had your wood chips when need be.  But you don't have to worry about the temperature of the meat because you meat thermometer will tell you.  When it is done the thermometer will set off a buzzer.

1 comment:

Ms. A said...

Well, it is not often I am encouraged to think about matches. I once had a couple of boxes of ever strikes in the cupboard - a mouse tried to bite through the box and nearly set the house on fire. ~Ms. A.