Grilling is a method of cooking that implicates hot & dry heat used to the external side of food, which comes from upper side or lower side. Most of people usually called it as Barbecuing but it has meaning in itself.

Now the people throughout the year use grilling techniques that adds the delicious & enchanting taste and smell in the food. It has become so common that everyone arranges the same in houses and enjoys the food taste, but here are 15 significant precautionary measures in order to make food germless & healthier for consuming.

1: Heating Before Grill

Always apply heat on food before grilling; otherwise food will be stick on rods. Cooking and barbecue experts illustrate that when you realize, cooking gas or charcoal is ready for use, hold the food in your hand and keep it five inches above the grill for two second if it is too hot and if the grate is less-hot, keep it three to four second. This precautionary action will keep it save from sticking of food.

2: Utilization Of Gas & Charcoal

Many people argue over which type of method is better for grilling, either gas or charcoal that can add flavor in food. No study is conducted yet to prove that which is good for health. Gas just burn domestic, whereas charcoal discharges more carbon dioxide, which makes the atmosphere polluted by throwing dust and tiny carbon particles in the air. However, so far as taste is concerned, many people prefer charcoal as it adds more flavor into food.

3: Carefully Use Of Grill

While grilling, be careful that to not grill in the bounded area. Always keep a distance and use sodium bicarbonate known baking soda to control a fat fire. Do not use water, sand bucket to extinguish the fire and also keep it in mind to grill on the proper place and ground.

4: Keep All Necessary Things Nearby

Many people start grilling without keeping necessary equipment, which can burn your food. So you should keep everything nearby before start cooking. Chicken pieces can frequently be burned due to your laxness.

5: Preservative Charcoal

Before cooking, you should select good material of charcoal. So it is strongly recommended that use over-burned charcoal instead of causal. Unadventurous charcoal consists of wood brawl, dust of saw, dust of coal, NaNO₃, Borax and paraffin. So far as lighter fluid is concerned, avoid it altogether, as it releases organic volatile compound in the atmosphere, which impart hostile scum on the food and stance a severe danger.

6: Cleanliness Of Grill

You can easily remove all the left-over residual on the grill when it is hot. So use long handled wire grill brush to clean the grill from the overcooked residual. Cleanliness of grill is also important for the removal of germs over the rods.

7: Oiling Your Grill

Thin food can easily stick on the rod even it is clean, when you place it on fire. So it is strongly recommended to use vegetable oil over the rack when it becomes hot. It is worth mentioning here to don’t use cooking spray on a hot rack.

8: Marinate First

Marinating of food is meaningful as compared to fill food with flavor. It also stops the formation of cancer-causing HCA which consist of heterocyclic amines which form when chicken and fish meats are grilled. As per American Cancer Research Center; marinating reduces the HCA formation from the assortment of 92% to 99%.

9: Leave Safe Spaces On Grill

If you are cooking food on the same level of fire, so it is suggested to leave safe place (unheated), so that you can easily move your food, when you see fire blazing or if you see your food is cooking so fast.

10: Use Of Basket

Always use grill basket, which is available with the range of $10 to $25, for the purpose of keeping food in the safe bucket, because food may fall while grilling or due to burdensome to crack one by one. It may be fish, vegetables or chicken.

11: Temperature Measuring Technique

It is difficult to measure the temperature by using thermostat, so you can measure the temperature by hands. Put your hand above five inches about and if it is too hot, you have to bring back your hands in 2 seconds, if it is medium hot, you have get back within 5 seconds and if it is low hot, you have to move the same in 10 seconds.

12: Ready To Eat

To know whether the food is fully cooked or not, just use temperature check thermometer that can internally check the protein pieces temperature with an instant read thermometer.

13: Chimney Technique

A chimney starter technique that is available in the range of $15 is used to make fire a wind. It can be done by using lined paper in the lower side of chimney, filling it with charcoal and burn the paper. Within twenty minutes charcoal will be ready to spread in the lower side of the grill. There is no need to use firewood, fire fluid or any other material.

14: Saucing

Grilling and Barbecue experts depict that saucing on the earlier stage is main mistake. They say that if you brush on the earlier stage of cooking, there will be the chances of bad taste in the food. So you should wait for last few minutes to apply them and you will get an enjoyable varnish in spite a black, overcooked clutter.

15: Rest For A While

When you have finished cooking, give it some rest on the clean dish, cover it with Aluminum foil, for about 10 minutes before figurine so squashes can rearrange calmly.