Grilling Dads, Jay and Jim Kridel, shared their 12 Best Grilling Tips on our Better Food Choices Radi0 show.  Now you can be a top grill chef, too!

1. LOW and SLOW.  Number one grill tip from the Grilling Dads, Jim and Jay Kridel.  Keep the fire, the heat, to a medium temperature as you cook almost everything.  No high hot flames as they kill the flavor and produce deadly carcinogens.  Replace mystery meat served camouflaged with sauce with moist mouth-watering flavor-filled burgers, hot dogs, steaks, fish and even vegetables. 

2. LOW Fires are made with fewer briquettes spread thinly across the bottom of the grill.  Gradually replace them when needed.  Slow cooked briquettes means slow cooked healthy and super delicious grilled food.

3. Lighter fluid soaked briquettes makes lighter fluid flavored grilled food.  Do we really need to tell you how sickening that is?

4. Listen to the sizzle.  When you want to know if your steak, fish, broccoli, onions or any food is cooking at the right temperature on a grill, bring your ear close enough to listen for the sizzle – lid on or lid off.  If you hear silence, it is time to add some more briquettes, wood or turn up the gas a little.

5. Grilling is a social event, whether it is a small gathering of your immediate family, a larger family affair, or one that includes friends.  Include your kids in the process.  With care, help them to learn how to grill. 

6. Use tumeric, rosemary, oregano and other herbs and spices when you season your food for the grill.  They are anti-carcinogenic – anti-cancer!

7. Grill Baskets are the best!  They are very inexpensive and make it possible for you to grill small sizes of vegetables and keep fish from falling through the grill grates.  Use olive oil to keep anything from sticking.

8. Grill Fruit!  Again, the grill basket makes this possible.  The grilled natural sugars  create phenomenal flavor!

9. Marinate first to maximize flavor and moist texture.  Olive oil, lemon, herbs are enough.  Add cayenne for a little zip. 

10. Keep your grill clean.  A skuzzy collection of residue from past grilling is a great way to ruin a good meal.

11. Precooking hot dogs and sausages in gently boiling beer insures a moist absolutely delicious result.  Once cooked through in beer, lightly grill them until you see a few grill marks.  Beats shriveled up, tight skinned, hard on the outside and often undercooked on the inside dogs.  Since the beer’s alcohol is released in the air while cooking, this is a recipe for kids as well.  Enjoy!

12. Watch for a “Jucy Lucy” burger made by Jay’s 12 year old nephew.  Kids like to cook, too!

Thank you Jay and Jim.  (Listen to the whole show on iTunes!)

… for the health of your family,
ellen and sally