Barbeque Tools Guide | Grill Outlet

Barbeque Tools are the next obvious purchase when a new barbecue grill arrives in your backyard. A few basics are often enough, and you may have some of these things in your kitchen already – but some are specialized or adapted specifically for use at a hot barbeque grill.

These adaptations are usually in the form of longer handles or handle with heat resistant material, such as wood, on the end where you hold them.

So here is a rundown of the most useful barbeque tools.

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Tongs

Tongs< obviously are perfect for grabbing and picking up items like steak, chicken pieces or sausages, they don’t pierce them and cause juices to run on to the coals or burners. Personally I prefer the sort that has handles much like scissors do rather than the ones the pinch together like tweezers – although it depends what you get used to.

Spatula

Ever heard people who work in McDonald’s as “burger flippers”? Well, they use a spatula to do the flipping. A spatula can slide under burgers or chicken pieces and various other items and used to pick them up and flip ‘em over. This is useful if food starts to stick to the grill.

Forks

I don’t use a fork, they pierce the meat and this tends to cause juices to run out and catch fire – flames just burn barbeque meat. This is especially true for steak, sausages or lamb.

However, they are great for hooking and flipping over pork chops or chicken breast as they grill, so some barbecue chefs love them.

Skewers

Skewers are designed really for grilling kebabs (or kebobs, if you prefer). Kebabs are fantastic, and I don’t know why they aren’t more popular.

These are can long and with a sharp point on the end for threading the various ingredients (they don’t have to be all meat).

As the best ones are stainless steel, which is pretty good at conducting heat from a grill (300F or more temperature), get some with wooden handles or you’ll brand yourself when you turn the kebabs over!

Hinged Grill Baskets

Hinged Grill Baskets are very useful for grilling anything that is usually grilled in quantity. Burgers, sausages, chicken wings or breast, some kebabs, fish fillets.

Put the meat inside and close the lid. When the time comes, just turn the whole basket over along with the contents. If you’ve ever had eight burgers or thirty chicken wings on the go you’ll know how much time it takes to flip all these over.

A grill basket turns them all over at once.

They come in various sizes that will hold four, six or eight burgers. There are versions adapted for grilling sliders, corn on the cob, and there are kebab grill baskets.

Barbecue Tools Sets

Barbecue Tool Sets are worth a mention, as they include everything mentioned here and more in one box. Some sets only include spatula, fork, and tongs which doesn’t seem much for the money.

I think it’s better to go for a set with skewers, a basting brush, corn holders and such as included, these more complete sets tend to be better valued.