It is the age old question of outdoor grilling: Lid up or down?
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It is the age old question of outdoor grilling: Lid up or down?
Of course there is a lot more to this question than simply up or down.
There are so many variables!
When youre cooking on a ceramic grill like our Big Green Eggs or Primos you would usually cook with the hood down.This is because you want to trap the heat for a low and slow cook.By adding hardwood chips or chunks like hickory wood, mesquite or even fruit woods like apple and cherry you want to get the flavor of that smoke into whatever youre cooking.If you raise the hood you lose that flavor.Wilshire Fireplace also sells the different hardwood chunks and chips used in smoking.
You can also obtain temperatures in the 700 degree range on the Big Green Egg and Primo Ceramic Cookers.With the addition of a pizza stone, heated in the cooker to these high temperatures you can have that mesquite grilled taste on your pizzas.Just like in the restaurantsbut at home.
However there are times when using a ceramic grill that you might want the hood up.If you have a thin cut of meat or vegetables, they wouldnt take a lot of time to cook.Get your Egg up to temperature and cook like on an open fire.
You could stand there watching your food cook and keep yourself warm just as if you had a fire pit. Wilshire Fireplace also sells a variety of fire pits if you want to keep that hood closed.Natural gas, propane or real wood, Wilshire can find the fire pit you need.
Some people just like to watch the food cooking so there is nothing wrong with the lid up.You just wont get much of the smoke flavor.
In answer to those who like to look at the food while it is cooking, the people that make the Fire Magic Barbecue have added as an accessory, a ceramic glass window to their high end barbecues. Smoke and watch at the same time! The difference in the ceramic glass of the Fire Magic and that of the old window paned barbecues of the past is that ceramic glass can withstand the heat.
While you are outside wondering how its going under those closed hoods you may get a little chilly.Wilshire Fireplace sells both gas and electric patio heaters.The gas models come in both natural gas and liquid propane. You can get free standing patio heaters or those that mount permanently on a wall of your home.
Wilshire Fireplace carries many lines of
Fireplace gas logs
and gas grills.You can buy free standing barbecues or the components to build an outdoor kitchen.Having a
barbecue
island in your backyard makes staying at home more fun.Use your backyard!
We sell the Lynx, Fire Magic, Twin Eagle, PGS Broilmaster, Solaire and of course Weber.
So lid up or down?Guess there really isnt a stock answer like yes or no.
Get to know your grill and youll be eating home more and out less!
Wilshire Fireplace Shop locations:
8668 Wilshire Boulevard, Beverly Hills, CA 90211
Tel: 310 657 8183 Fax: 310 657 9399
15335 Sunset Boulevards, Pacific Palisades, CA 90272
Tel: 310 454 4444 Fax: 310 454 6056
14619 Ventura Boulevard, Sherman Oaks, CA 91403
Tel: 818 784 7248 Fax: 818 784 7508
134 Pacific Coast Highway, Hermosa Beach, CA 90254
Tel: 310 376 3448 Fax: 310 374 9917
1522 Newport Boulevard, Costa Mesa, CA 92627
Tel: 949 650 2640 Fax: 949 650 7945
162 S. Rancho Santa Fe Road No.E40, Encinitas, CA 92024
Tel: 760 436 8878 Fax: 760 436 8879
4004 Taylor Street, San Diego, CA 92110
Tel: 619 296 2727 Fax: 619 296 7910
Robert Howard consults in custom fireplace design for Wilshire Fireplace Shops in Sandiego California selling fireplace inserts, mantel and mantels,
fireplace accessories
, mailboxes fireside entrances/doors, fires creens, chenets, antique andiron, tool sets,
gas logs
, fenders that come handy for innovative contemporary, traditional, antique fireplaces.
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