How to Have the Best Tasting BBQ with Grill Rotisserie

Grill accessories are aplenty, but rotisseries are definitely the most popular. People who love barbecue grilling will almost certainly add a rotisserie. This accessory can turn out wonderfully tender and juicy meat each time you use it. Rather than grilling, the meat is roasted. Cooking a chicken for a rotisserie grill is not difficult.

Rotisseries are available as an add-on to an outdoor grill or as a standalone unit that can be used indoors as well. The most basic rotisserie would consist of a spit, a motorized rotating rod where you place the meat and a source of heat. This heat source could be charcoal, gas or electric. Rotisseries can range in price from $40 to $ 750 depending on the features you opt for.

How the rotisserie works

In a rotisserie, you skewer your food on a big metal spit. The rotisserie forks fixed to the spit hold the food in place. There are manual rotisseries that you can turn by yourself. But the trend these days is motorized rotisseries which gently turn the spit, rotating the roast over the source of heat, ensuring all the sides of the roast get cooked evenly, caramelizing the surface while keeping the core tender and juicy. As the food is held away from direct heat, there is no burning.

What can you cook on your rotisserie? There are several recipes for cooking a chicken for a rotisserie grill. You can enjoy tequila lime chicken, which is delicious and filled with flavor. You can cook whole poultry, roast leg of lamb, prime rib roasts, and so on. Whichever recipe you use, make sure you have your basting sauce mixture to give it that added taste through the cooking.

It is best to get a rotisserie attachment for your grill with a powerful motor. Though most manufacturers offer gas grills with rotisserie burners or gas grill rotisseries, even if you have a charcoal grill, you can get a rotisserie attachment for it. But ensure that with the charcoal grill, you build the fire around the edges without any coals under it directly. For gas grills, keep the burners on low fire. Place a drip pan under the roast so that there are no flare-ups.

Benefits of cooking on a rotisserie

Apart from the fact that your meat will be juicy, it is slowly roasted and evenly cooked. Unlike a grill where you put the food on the grill surface directly above the heat source, a rotisserie can handle those huge roasts that take a while to cook without charring them. A gas grill rotisserie will cook the roast in the ambient heat of the grill turning the sides slowly retaining the juices inside, while perfectly cooking the outside.

Some chefs consider it less work to cook on a gas grill with rotisserie burner. This is because the rotisserie turns the meat by itself and produces better results than when manually turning and arranging the meat often on the grill. Rotisseries need much lesser heat than grilling and there is no possibility of burning the food. Rotisseries are especially advantageous for large roasts that need frequent attention and turning to ensure that the inside is well cooked without burning the outside.

There are several gas grills with rotisserie burners as a standard feature these days. The rotisserie is motorized and some even come with an infrared burner especially for rotisserie cooking. The Weber grill rotisserie is very popular and considered very efficient.

The vital thing with rotisseries is to fix the meat securely in the middle. With poultry, the wings and legs must be tied in as tightly as possible to avoid burning. Get a meat thermometer to keep tabs on the cooking time.