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Five Tips For Incredible Outdoor Cooking
You can step up your grilling game this sum- mer with some insider tips and tricks from Chef Kevin Gillespie, BBQ ex- pert, restaurant owner, cookbook author, and fan favorite from Bravo's "Top Chef."
From temperature tips to unexpected ingredients such as hard cider, Kevin has some great tricks to make your grilling easier and even more delicious:
• Make sure your grill marks are brown, not black. Dark char can give food a burnt taste.
• Have all your ingredi-
ents and tools readily avail-
able. The grill cooks foods
faster than most traditional
cooking techniques, so be sure to watch carefully and have what you need close by.
• Be generous when seasoning. With a grill, there's less surface area than when cooking on a stove-all those gaps in the grates on the grill- so salt, pepper and other seasonings may fall through.
• Temperature is key when grilling. A gener- al rule of thumb is to cook on medium or me- dium-high heat. The hand trick is good to go by. Carefully hold your hand 6 inches over the sur- face of the grill. If you can count past 3, the grill is too cold. If you can't count to 3, it's too hot.
• Using cider, such as Angry Orchard Hard Ci- der, for your marinade, as an ingredient or on its own produces juicy, tender meats while infusing a refreshing, fruit-forward taste into every bite. It also helps to create that golden-brown grill mark color you're looking for as the sugar helps to car- amelize the outside of your meats. Hard Cider is also a refreshing alternative to beer and wine when grilling or for any occasion.
Angry Orchard Crisp Apple is available in 12- oz. and 16-oz. cans, so you can flip a burger with one hand and hold your cider in the other-it's handy when you're on the go, too.
This fresh take on a classic BBQ recipe is simple and delicious:
Cooking great chicken outdoors can be easy with the help of a can of hard cider.
the chicken: Dissolve 1 Ta-
blespoon Kosher salt and 1 Tablespoon sugar in one can of Angry Orchard Crisp Apple cider. Mix in 1 Table-
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Cider Can Chicken Serves 3-4
roasting chicken, approx. 4-5 pounds cans Angry Orchard
Crisp Apple cider Tablespoons
chopped fresh herbs cloves garlic, finely
chopped ounces olive oil
pepper, to taste
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