Colorado Prime Foods Guidelines For Setting Up Your Grilling Location

Taking just a bit of additional time putting together your BBQ location after the winter season will result in a better, and more triumphant grilling summer. Follow these tips and guidelines, and you'll be on the path of becoming the neighborhood grill master:

1. Most important word of advice! Schedule "Grill Set Up Day" when your spouse isn't going to be home. Be warned: After you open the garage door, "BBQ Set Up Day" can potentially expand into "Let's Reorganize The Garage Day," and after that "Why Don't We Wash All Of The Outside Furniture Day" if you're not careful.

2. Protect the Patio. When your grill is going on a cement patio, especially a new one, you will need to buy a fresh pad you can place beneath the grill. It's going to capture any fat or oil that may otherwise seep into the patio. "Clean the Concrete Day" is to be avoided without exceptions.

3. Support For Your Spine. One of several cool inventions they recently came out with are these shock absorbing chef mats you can place in front of your grill. They deaden the shock of standing on concrete for an day of cooking. The Rx Medical Crocs are a fantastic purchase, also, if you have any kind of back issues. I use them all the time at home. The Mario Batali edition of Crocs, made for people in the food service business, now come in black if you can't match the intense orange ones he wears to your grill clothes.

4. Avoid the Sun! As a rule of thumb, I arrange the grilling station away from the sun. It's hard enough being close to a hot grill, plus the effects of exposure to the sun are well noted: Your beer doesn't remain frosty as long. I added an open porch to ensure the smoke can ventilate, while I'm out of the sun, and I can easily grill in any weather. With a little bit of creative imagination, you'll find a good home for your personal grill station.

5. Keep the Grill Clean. Odds are, bugs and other creepy crawlers have lived in your barbeque grill as a winter condominium. It's always best if you start the season with a washing. Each time I go to Home Depot, I ask the guy from the grill section what is the finest cleanser for my grill, and I show him or her one on display that is nearest to the one I have.

6. Test Foil. Line the inside of the grill with heavy-duty aluminum foil. This is an optional step, but I found you can pull added heat from a barbeque grill which is lined with heavy-duty aluminum foil. You may get two or three applications from it, but it definitely saves you from the "dismantle, clean, and rinse" process.

7. Cast Iron Grills. If you don't have cast iron grills, start the season off with an early Father's Day present. Make sure to take your current grills to the store to find the proper size. Nothing else works better for grill marks, and when you season them, you never have to brush them clean.

8. Oil Catch. Change the grease cup with an old pop can. Just cut away the top of the can and squeeze it in the holder. It is easier to dispose of a can than trying to clean the trap.

9. Fresh Herbs. I set my grill up in the ideal area to cultivate fresh herbs. Imagine how cool you'll appear when you pick some fresh parsley or cilantro from your small herbal garden, and sprinkle it on your planked salmon. Yummy! But that is an article for next time.

10. Get a Back-up Tank. Consider buying a backup propane tank. There is nothing worse than running out of gas on a Sunday afternoon, and having to run down to your local filling location to get more. I've always found the lines to be pretty lengthy because it happens to lots of guys.

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