Healthy Grilled Food
Grilling is a fast and healthy way to cook food, and you can prepare a wide variety of exciting and tasty dishes this way. One of the best ways to grill is outdoors on a barbeque grill in the summer, and there are two main types of grill you can use, a charcoal grill or a gas grill.
Charcoal grills
Charcoal grills give an authentic, smoky flavour to meat and fish, but they are more challenging to prepare and cook with. The coals need to be lit well before the cooking time to ensure that the flames do not burn the outside of the food without cooking the inside, and the ash and grease left over can take a bit of clearing up.
Charcoal grills are less expensive though, and you can set them up almost anywhere, especially if you have one of those small disposable grill packs.
Gas grills
Gas grills are much more expensive and require a bottled gas supply, and they are generally heavier and less portable than charcoal grills. However they can be turned on with the switch of a knob, and the heat is instant and constant, so there is no waiting around for the flames to die down. Some gas grills also provide a smoker box, so that you can add wood chips to simulate that authentic smoky flavour that a charcoal grill gives. There is no mess of ashes and grease to clear up with a gas grill, and so they are very convenient to use in an everyday situation.
Incorporate grilling into your diet
Grilling food is very healthy, as it allows the fat to drip away so it is a good idea to incorporate grilling into your diet. If the weather is bad you can also grill indoors on an electric grill. Modern cookers usually have a grill feature, called ‘top contact’ grills where bars in the top of the oven are heated and cook food on trays below.
You could also buy a separate ‘closed grill’, which cooks thinner pieces of food, (burgers, fillets, sandwiches and sliced vegetables), between two pressed heating plates. These closed cookers are very easy to use and have digital thermostats and timers so that you can cook food precisely, and they are usually based on a sloping design that allows grease to drip away.
