Setting a gas grill for indirect cooking is as simple as turning it on and off.
Indirect heat gas grill 3 burner.
The food is placed on a rack in a roasting pan.
Drip pans are required for foods that have juices such as roasts and ribs.
Temperatures in this zone are usually around 225 degrees so it will take longer to cook your foods.
When grilling with indirect heat food is placed on the cooler portion or side of the grill away from the heat source.
In this image a 2 burner model is shown and the basic principle remains the same.
The outer burners are turned to medium or low and the middle burner is turned off.
To grill using the indirect method on a 2 burner model it helps to understand.
Brush the cooking grates with a stainless steel grill brush to remove any leftover debris.
To grill by the indirect method on a gas grill preheat the grill with all burners on high.
Away from the heat source.
If you want to cook low and slow you have to cook with indirect heat and not with direct flame.
Adjust the burners on each side of the food to the temperature noted in the recipe and turn off the burner s directly below where the food will be placed.
Indirect cooking on a gas grill indirect cooking on a gas grill.
4 burner or more gas grills.
Monitor the heat closely if two burners are heating the grill too much you can turn one of the burners off.
Once the grill has been heated with all burners on high simply turn off the burner or burners in the center of the.
With a three burner grill we turn on the two outside burners to medium leaving the middle one off we then put the food in the middle of the grill away from the burners.
Preheat the grill for 15 minutes or until the grill s thermometer registers 500 to 550 f.
Set the outer burners to medium or low but in this case there is no middle burner to turn off.
So how do we make a gas grill do indirect cooking.