How to Grill: The Complete Illustrated Book of Barbecue Techniques by Steven Raichlen Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of How to Grill: The Complete Illustrated Book of Barbecue Techniques
Book Review: An excellent guide to BBQing and outdoor cooking
Summary: 5 Stars
I've been a fan of BBQing for many years now, but could never find a book combining techiques of bbqing with a large selection of mouth watering and tantalizing recipes. Well this book does both! It starts from the basics on different types of BBQs; from gas, to charcoal and even electric. How to start them, how best to cook and of course literally hundreds of recipes. These range from the down right bizarre like the 'Grilled lettuce' to the jaw droppingly tasty 'Beer can chicken'. It gives recipes for all kinds of meats, fish, vegetables and desserts, and is suitable for the complete novice to the most experienced pitmaster. Anyone who wants to start BBQing or already does should buy a copy. You'll never want to cook indoors again!!Book Review: Comprehensive guide that is excellent value for money
Summary: 5 Stars
I looked at a lot of books on barbequeing before settling on this one. There are many with decent recipes and glossy pictures but they lack detail on the techniques needed. This book is a comprehensive guide containing comments on equipment, detailed instructions on techniques and recipes. There are lots of useful photographs illustrating the techniques. As might be expected the book is particularly strong on American food, but also contains recipes from around the world (yakitori, sates, kebabs etc). Overall a no nonsense book, somewhat lacking in artsy photos but full of useful information. The paperback in particular is excellent value. Book Review: BBQ KNOW HOW
Summary: 5 Stars
This is a great book it gives you all the basics you will need, the section on setting up your BBQ types of heat tools are of great help,without doubt if you cant cook a real ace Barbie with this book give up and settle for a take-away,GREAT BOOK,GREAT VALUE,(watch your waistline) Book Review: fairly useful but annoying and flawed
Summary: 3 Stars
There are a lot of good recipes and instructions in this book and it is a reasonable choice for a novice BBQ owner. I'm sure the author knows his stuff to a fair degree. The author's style is full of bull. For example, we are told that "Steak is the measure of a grill jockey's mettle, and the ability to grill one to the perfect degree of doneness is the mark of a master". Then he continues "Fortunately, by following three simple procedures, it's easy to produce a perfect steak every time". There is lots of this kind of nonsense. This is typical of many American cookbooks - trivial details explained at great length (with the same pictures again & again), but some lack of insight about cookery or cuisine. However, if you are a beginner, just grin and bear it and this may be a very useful read.
BTW, the book is slightly biaised towards charcoal BBQs rather than gas grills.
Some other good things about the book : reasonable range of world cuisine, lots of good pictures, overall good standard of presentation.
Book Review: Grilling for parties
Summary: 3 Stars
This is a good book on grilling on a BBQ. Many of the recipes are for large parties, much more than a typical UK family. But if you invite friends around regularly then there are some spectacular meals to be made. Those recipes that were suitable for my small family worked well and the technique and equipment sections were useful.