Charcoal barbecue, what a passion!
If you love the flavor of food cooked on the grill, then you can't help but adore charcoal barbecues, they allow for even cooking and a flavor like you will hardly find elsewhere, and to rediscover and enhance your traditions, furthermore cooking on the grill gives us a piece of culinary history that we don't want to forget.
They are also barbecues or charcoal grills that are very easy to handle, economical in cooking, and convenient to move so that you can position them wherever you want, be it on the beach, on a lawn, in the campsite, or in a camper.
The best charcoal barbecues can be considered those that give that smoky taste to the dishes and this is given by the type of charcoal you use, if you get used to managing the wood you produce you will certainly give that something that commercial products do not they will never be able to give you, so if you use wood of safe cherry, beech or vine origin, olive tree is also excellent, but there are many others, you will have something that will leave your friends and diners speechless.
Absolutely avoid using resinous woods such as firs, pines, etc. which in addition to making dishes taste bad, can also produce fire from the resin and ruin the barbecue. In fact, an important precaution to use is to start cooking only when the flame is out, and to use exclusively the heat produced by the embers.
Producing the embers is quite simple: use hard and healthy wood, avoid bark and wood that are too light and soft (indication of worn wood) in the appropriate ember lighter , when it has taken on a bright red color in the evening, or a gray color if cook during the day and then place them inside your BBQ, keeping them at least 5-6 cm away from the charcoal cooking grill.
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