Food fast: When you have a need for speed

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Starting to feel like 20 mins is a "food fast" threshold, and making use of a previous cook certainly is a smart move, so you qualify @HoosierKettle .  But like @CarrieAnn says, prep doesn't always count if you prep ahead. I prep-ahead too when I can, and almost always cook for leftovers too. That's smart too.

This thread is giving me more ideas for how to make use the the sad little grill area at my apartment during the week, where I don't want to spend any more time than I have to. For now, I have to go prep tomorrow's meal, meaning I have to make a rhubarb pie tonight.

[bbqking01]

Omg! Rhubarb pie! My aunt used to make rhubarb crunch, kinda like peach cobbler, just with rhubarb. Been many, many moons since I've had rhubarb anything.

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[Mike in Roseville]

A few good tips here...pounding meat or slicing it smaller is one side/hotter fire is the other.

Outside of burgers and dogs, I'd say skirt steak carne asada or marinated thinly sliced chicken breasts are the fastest. I also cook them to color (after much practice).


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[Jon]

Carne Asada from like ranch market, or a good carnecirea market, already marinated. Maybe 5 minutes. Super good.

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This for me too. I use a dedicated kettle that always has leftover lump in it. All on the "back side" of the kettle.

Light a chimney of new lump, throw it on top of the carryover lump on the "coal" side. Place foil-wrapped tortillas in the basement away from the coals. Put on the Weber wok (the 8412 that was discontinued, but still can probably be found on Ebay). The entire wok heats up, one side is just more hot. Add some oil, add two pounds of meat. Cook. Under ten minutes cook time.

When cooked, remove meat, immediately remove wok (it starts smoking as soon as the food is removed) and land on the grate of an unused kettle. I assume most of you have an unused kettle. Pull the tortilla pack. Done.

Well, not done. You still need to eat and shut everything down and clean up.

[addicted-to-smoke]

^^ I also look for ways to get into a rhythm like that. ^^

[addicted-to-smoke]

Regarding marinades, thawed stuff already prepped and other do-ahead tasks, you all have probably come across many recipes where most of the "cook" is browning meat, adding stuff, and then warming or melting it all together for a short time.

This is one of those: basically these kinds of things are casseroles. http://www.theslowroasteditalian.com/2012/09/simple-mexican-lasagna.html?m=1

I forgot the corn and the cilantro, but since I made a double batch and freezed one for later, maybe I'll remember to add them. It was a hit.

Forgot to mention, I used ground chicken instead of beef. Used corn tortillas, doubling them up since I figured singles would just about dissolve in the goo. It worked; they stayed together well enough to slice through.

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