Kenmore SI3209ZA Use and Care Guide - Page 29

Grilling Steak and Ribs Turn the grill Burners on Hi, close the Lid and preheat your grill 3 to 5 minutes. Open Lid and place the meat on the Cooking Grid directly above the lit Burners. Cook the meat on both sides until seared. Reduce the heat to MEDIUM and cook meat until done. Grilling times will vary according to meat thickness. Cut of Meat T-bone steak Sirloin steak Beef spare ribs Porterhouse steak New York strip steak Approximate Cooking Times Rare: 4-8 minutes Medium: 10-14 minutes Well done: 15-20 minutes Grilling Hamburgers and Sausages Turn the grill Burners on Hi, close Lid and preheat your grill 3 to 5 minutes. Open Lid and place the meat on the Cooking Grid directly above the lit Burners. Cook the meat on both sides until seared. Reduce the heat to MEDIUM and cook the meat until done. Grilling times will vary according to meat thickness. Hamburgers Sausages Rare: 4-6 minutes Medium: 8-10 minutes Well done: 10-15 minutes Grilling Poultry Turn the grill Burners on Hi, close Lid and preheat your grill 2 to 3 minutes. Then raise the Lid, reduce heat to MEDIUM and cook poultry directly over lit Burners until done. Poultry skin is fatty so you should expect some flare-ups when using this direct method. To minimize flare-ups, try grilling poultry using the indirect method. Place the poultry on one side of the grill with the opposing Burners on MEDIUM heat, and lower the grill Lid. Grilling times will vary based on the size of your poultry. Chicken breast (cook with bone down) Chicken wings Drumsticks Whole bird (cook with breast up) Direct method: approximately 15 minutes Indirect method: up to 30 minutes Indirect method: approximately 1 hour Grilling Pork Turn Burners on Hi and preheat your grill 3 to 5 minutes with the Lid closed. Raise Lid, place pork on Cooking Grid and cook until seared. Reduce heat to MEDIUM and cook until done. Grilling times will vary according to meat thickness. Chops Loins Cutlets Medium: 10-14 minutes Well done: 15-20 minutes Whole Fish and Whole Fillets Preheat your grill on Hi for 2-3 minutes with the Lid down. Raise lid and turn Burners to MEDIUM heat. Place fish (skin down) on grill and cook over direct heat until done. Use cooking time as a guide or until fish is opaque but still moist. Whole fish Whole fish fillets 10 - 12 minutes per pound or until fish is opaque Smaller Fish Fillets and Cubes Follow the directions from above, using approximate cooking times shown at right. Place a small piece of aluminum foil on the Cooking Grids if the fish pieces are small enough to drop between the Cooking Grids. Fish fillets Boneless cubes 4 - 5 minutes each side or until fish is opaque Vegetables and Fruit Prepare your fruit or vegetables and brush with butter or basting sauce if desired. To cook indirectly, the food should be placed on the left or right side of your grill with the Burner lit on the opposite side and the grill lid down. Or center your food on the Secondary Cooking Rack and light the outer grill Burners. Either way, indirect cooking must be done with the Lid down. In some instances, you may want to grill vegetables and fruit directly over the heat, using the supplied Cooking Grids. Foods that work best with direct heat are relatively soft and require a short cooking time: mushrooms, zucchini, tomatoes and skewered fruit such as apricots, peaches, pineapple, strawberries and kiwis. Remember the Grill Lid must remain up when cooking directly. For very firm vegetables--particularly potatoes and yams, we recommend that you partially boil until almost cooked, before placing them on the grill. Cooking times using the indirect method with the lid down will be similar to those for your kitchen oven. However, there are many factors such as outside temperature, wind conditions and location of grill that affect your grill performance so we suggest you watch the temperature gauge and adjust the heat accordingly. Cooking times for foods prepared with the direct method will be much shorter mainly because of the direct heat source and softness of the food. Timing will be comparable to normal pan frying or grilling. A-2