Useful Tips And Tricks; Preheating The Appliance; Preventing Food From Sticking; Direct And Indirect Grilling - Barbecook STELLA 3221 User Manual

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USEFUL TIPS AND TRICKS

10.1 Preheating the appliance

By preheating your appliance, you make sure the grill is hot
enough by the time you put food on it. Proceed as follows:
1 Light the burner(s) and set their control knob(s) to HIGH.
2 Close the lid and leave the appliance for ten minutes.
3 After ten minutes, open the lid and put your food on the grill.
4 If you need less heat now, set the control knob(s) to a lower
position.

10.2 Preventing food from sticking

To prevent your food from sticking to the grill:
• Oil the food lightly with a brush before you put it on the grill.
You can also oil the grill itself.
• Preheat the appliance. The warmer the grill when you put
food on it, the less the food will stick.
• Do not turn the food too quickly. Let it catch some heat first.

10.3 Direct and indirect grilling

Depending on the type of food you are preparing and on how you
want to prepare it, you can grill directly or indirectly:
Method
Direct Put your food directly above a
lit burner, set that burner to a
high position and keep the lid
open.
Indirect Put your food next to a lit
burner, set that burner to a
medium/low position and close
the lid.
When grilling under a closed lid, always keep an eye on
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the lid thermometer to make sure the appliance does not
get too hot. See "10.5 Watching the temperature".

10.4 Grilling with closed lid

Closing the lid while grilling has some important advantages:
• The temperature of the grill is higher and remains more
constant.
• You reduce the cooking time of your food and keep your
food more moist.
• You reduce flare-ups and save gas.
When grilling under a closed lid, always keep an eye on
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the lid thermometer to make sure the appliance does
not get too hot. See "10.5 Watching the temperature".
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10.5 Watching the temperature

Your appliance is equipped with powerful burners, so it heats up
rapidly and you can keep the temperature steady. When grilling
under a closed lid, however, you have to make sure that the
appliance does not get too hot. Keep an eye on the lid
thermometer and take into account the following guidelines:
• A normal cooking temperature is about 210 °C. At higher
temperatures, dripping and accumulated fat can ignite.
• The temperature should never be over 300 °C for more than
five minutes. This can damage and deform the appliance.
If the appliance gets too hot, cool it down by opening the
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lid and setting the burners to a lower position.

10.6 Making optimal use of the heat

The central part of the bowl is hotter than the sides. To allow you
to use that hottest part to its full potential, the appliance is
equipped with grills of different sizes. It comes with:
• One large grill, to be placed in the centre of the bowl.
• Two smaller grills, to be placed at the sides of the bowl.
If you place the grills correctly in the bowl and light all the
burners, the entire central grill will be heated to the maximum.
Like that, you expand the hottest part of the bowl and you can
make optimal use of the grill surface of your appliance.
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10.7 Taking advantage of the heat zones

When all burners are lit, the burner hoods distribute the heat as
evenly as possible over the grill. Despite this even heating, some
zones are still hotter than others. You can take advantage of
these heat zones to grill your food to perfection:
Zone
Front
Centre
Back
You can also create heat zones by playing with the power
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of the burners. You can, for example, set a burner to a
lower position and use the zone above that burner for
delicate food or food that needs some time to cook.
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