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this morning on "today's kitchen" we're going back to basics with great ideas for your
labor day
barbecue. our barbecue expert is the designer and creator of the pellet cooker grill.
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that's right. we've also got chris lilly, the pit master of bib
bob gibson
's barbecue in decatur, alabama. good morning to both of you.
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nice to have you here.
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thank you for the opportunity to come.
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let me spin off to
fast eddie
. you talk about these grills and these things smoke, barbecue, they grill, they do everything. the star is the
wood pellets
, though, isn't it?
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they're pressed saw dust is what they are and they're eco-friendly, considered carbon neutral. 500 btus and come in apple, hickory, cherry, maple.
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you like to say gas only comes in one flavor and that's no flavor.
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exactly.
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there you go. that's what you're cooking with here. you like to use indirect heat a lot. we have direct and indirect. you can cook over the char broiler or indirect like the slow cook of your ribs.
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let's talk about some ribs here. you do this the night before you're going to cook them you rub them with
brown sugar
.
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i use a
light brown
sugar, rub them overnight. that sugar will melt down and then it will be a nice, sweet undertone flavor to your ribs.
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right before you cook them,
30 minutes
, you put the rub on. the ingredients of your rub we're going to put on our website because there are a lot of them. it's a pretty complex rub. put it on
30 minutes
before and then you cook them and then when do you put the glaze on? we'll put the ingredients of the glaze on as well.
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the last
15 minutes
so you don't burn it. and all you're doing is just packing it up so it sticks to the ribs really nice.
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when i direct people to our website, check it out. this is a recipe that got you a perfect score in a competition, right?
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the
2000
world barbecue championships here in lebanon, tennessee, a 180. thank you.
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there you go. i have chris lilly over here with something that's ceramic. what's the advantage of working with this?
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it's a ceramic grill and runs off charcoal. charcoal means flavor. the charcoal adds another dimension to your barbecue. and what better way to capture it than on a ceramic grill? it has several advantages. it has insulation, multiwalled insulation right here so it's huggable. you can actually get down there and it's hot on the outside but it's cool inside. also, it's the most efficient cooker on the market. it burns very little charcoal which means less airflow which means the moisture stays in your cooker which means moist, juicy ribs and chicken. and talk about ribs and chicken, what i've got here is a slab of ribs that's been cooking for about two hours with a nice
dry rub
on it. we're going to bump it up a notch, though, mix apple sider, honey, apple jelly and
brown sugar
. we're going to pour it
over the top
. pour it right
over the top
of that rib. plus a little extra added love. this is the
dry rub
and seasoning that we initially put on the rib. we're going to wrap it up.
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put it back in for how long?
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it's going to go on for about another hour until it gets tender. next we've got our chicken. oh, look at this. this is an airline
chicken breast
with basil butter.
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why do you call it airline chicken?
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it has the one drummette bone here. they say that back in the '50s and '60s this fit nicely in the little airline compartment and it made the chicken look bigger. but basically you can do it with a skin-on
chicken breast
, salt, pepper, you baste it with basil butter
over the top
and look at this.
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look at this right here. look how it tastes. look at the juice coming right off of that.
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that's fantastic.
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it looks amazing. lesser?
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fast eddie
, thank you very much. guys on the crew, jump in because
jim bell
's hovering here.
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uh-oh.
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you will not get any.
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