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If not, you should!

 

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Subject: Do you boil your brats in beer, butter and onions before you put them on the grill?
Last time i grilled some it was beer, onions and paprika, then to the grill

 

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Subject: Do you boil your brats in beer, butter and onions before you put them on the grill?

That would be acceptable.

 

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Subject: Do you boil your brats in beer, butter and onions before you put them on the grill?
Hmmm i never thought of adding butter though. Wouldn't most of the water foam off leaving you with the left over drawn butter? Will the flavors still get into the brats?

 

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Try it, you'll like it.

 

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Mmmmkay.

 

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Subject: Do you boil your brats in beer, butter and onions before you put them on the grill?
No butter, they are greasy enough as it is.

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Subject: Do you boil your brats in beer, butter and onions before you put them on the grill?
Yep, I did that once.


Poke holes in them and soaked them over 18 hours in beer.
Put them in crock pot, using beer mix I soak them in and added pepper/onions and more, for at least 6-8 hours.
Then gently grill kissed them for maybe 10 minutes.



Best brats I have ever had, but a lot of prep time.

 

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Subject: Do you boil your brats in beer, butter and onions before you put them on the grill?
I don't have any brats, and even though I have often felt like killing other peoples brats, I never once thought of boiling them in beer, butter, and onions. Usually just think of kicking them into traffic or dropping a them out a window.

Harsh I know, but some people just like their kids run wild. Damn brats.

 

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WTH is the difference between brats and sausage links?

 

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Subject: Do you boil your brats in beer, butter and onions before you put them on the grill?
Second_Chance posted:
WTH is the difference between brats and sausage links?




Brats are what the middle class grills, sausage links are what rednecks grill.

 

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Gonna call bs on that one. Must be regional.

Also, gonna call bs on soaking something that is loaded with onions and garlic in onion water gonna make it taste better.

 

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Subject: Do you boil your brats in beer, butter and onions before you put them on the grill?
Second_Chance posted:
Gonna call bs on that one. Must be regional.

Also, gonna call bs on soaking something that is loaded with onions and garlic in onion water gonna make it taste better.





It is BEER, not water. And it is not so much for taste, some, but more for tenderness imo. *And using the beer/onion/pepper remnants to put on the dog.

 

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Subject: Do you boil your brats in beer, butter and onions before you put them on the grill?
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No butter, they are greasy enough as it is.

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No Onions either, wife can't stand them so I can't use them.

 

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Subject: Do you boil your brats in beer, butter and onions before you put them on the grill?
Parboiling is a completely legit and in fact useful technique for sausages. However, with the exception of the beer, I can't see how adding anything else to the boiling liquid would do anything noticeable, and I'd even suspect the beer of being somewhat overkill.

If you don't parboil sausages, they tend to get very dry if you grill them through, or underdone if you try to keep them from drying out. People get kind of squeamish about undercooked sausages.

I wonder what brining sausages would do... may have to try that.

 

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Just beer

Brats are a Wisconsin staple. Can't wait for Brewers tailgate season!

 

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Parboiling is a completely legit and in fact useful technique for sausages. However, with the exception of the beer, I can't see how adding anything else to the boiling liquid would do anything noticeable, and I'd even suspect the beer of being somewhat overkill.

If you don't parboil sausages, they tend to get very dry if you grill them through, or underdone if you try to keep them from drying out. People get kind of squeamish about undercooked sausages.

I wonder what brining sausages would do... may have to try that.


You don't cook much nor did you pass science in Jr. High did you?

 

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Caledric posted:
Cawlin posted:
Parboiling is a completely legit and in fact useful technique for sausages. However, with the exception of the beer, I can't see how adding anything else to the boiling liquid would do anything noticeable, and I'd even suspect the beer of being somewhat overkill.

If you don't parboil sausages, they tend to get very dry if you grill them through, or underdone if you try to keep them from drying out. People get kind of squeamish about undercooked sausages.

I wonder what brining sausages would do... may have to try that.


You don't cook much nor did you pass science in Jr. High did you?


Actually I cook a great deal and have done so in part time jobs in restaurant kitchens and for catering outfits. I also have a bachelor's degree in physiology, and attended a year of graduate school on a Ph.D. program in neurophysiology. How's your shoe taste? I could probably even cook that so it's palatable for you, but I'd recommend instead that you stop putting your foot in your mouth and focus on eating things that are more healthy and which require less preparation in order to make them edible.

 

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In Wisconsin, I don't think it's legal NOT to at least use beer in cooking brats.

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I don't boil them; however, I do soak them in that mixture for several hours before grilling them.

 

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No. Just beer. Onions go on later. And why the hell do you need butter for a brat? The fat filled casing doesn't have enough fat in it for you already?

 

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Subject: Do you boil your brats in beer, butter and onions before you put them on the grill?
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No. Just beer. Onions go on later. And why the hell do you need butter for a brat? The fat filled casing doesn't have enough fat in it for you already?





Did you forget where you are posting?

 

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JD_HOGG posted:
No. Just beer. Onions go on later. And why the hell do you need butter for a brat? The fat filled casing doesn't have enough fat in it for you already?





Did you forget where you are posting?


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No. Just beer. Onions go on later. And why the hell do you need butter for a brat? The good German stock filled casing doesn't have enough good German stock in it for you already?

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I'm not german, no brats for me.

 

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I'm not german, no brats for me.

 

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In Wisconsin, I don't think it's legal NOT to at least use beer in cooking brats.

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The rare times that we actually cook them, they go straight from the package to the grill.

 

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poke holes in them soak in beer and onions for 3-4 hours then boil them for awhile then grill them

 

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Subject: Do you boil your brats in beer, butter and onions before you put them on the grill?
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Parboiling is a completely legit and in fact useful technique for sausages. However, with the exception of the beer, I can't see how adding anything else to the boiling liquid would do anything noticeable, and I'd even suspect the beer of being somewhat overkill.

If you don't parboil sausages, they tend to get very dry if you grill them through, or underdone if you try to keep them from drying out. People get kind of squeamish about undercooked sausages.

I wonder what brining sausages would do... may have to try that.



arent they already pretty salty? i dont eat them that i knwo of. unless we call them something else here. we have sausages we bbq confused . anyways, wouldnt bringing make them way too salty?

 

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Cawlin posted:
Parboiling is a completely legit and in fact useful technique for sausages. However, with the exception of the beer, I can't see how adding anything else to the boiling liquid would do anything noticeable, and I'd even suspect the beer of being somewhat overkill.

If you don't parboil sausages, they tend to get very dry if you grill them through, or underdone if you try to keep them from drying out. People get kind of squeamish about undercooked sausages.

I wonder what brining sausages would do... may have to try that.



arent they already pretty salty? i dont eat them that i knwo of. unless we call them something else here. we have sausages we bbq confused . anyways, wouldnt bringing make them way too salty?



Well I don't know if it would or not... that's why I posted:

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I wonder what brining sausages would do... may have to try that.


Not to be a dick or anything but I'm just saying...

I really don't know how it all would work out. The issue is keeping sausages moist while cooking them through and without it taking eleventy hours to do so...

While the salty water of the brine does cause more salt to enter the cells of the meat via diffusion, it ALSO causes more liquids to enter the cells of the meat via osmosis and I believe capillary action. As the meat draws in liquid, it will draw in flavors suspended in that liquid too...

Brining can carry flavors into the meat very effectively - often more effectively than direct injection syringes. For example, I brine pork chops with a mixture of salt water, garlic, and apple cider - they pick up a very noticeable apple flavor from doing that. The thing is, I don't know what flavors you'd want to add to brats...

 

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poke holes in them soak in beer and onions for 3-4 hours then boil them for awhile then grill them


There are people here that would kill you for poking holes in brats.

 

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poke holes in them soak in beer and onions for 3-4 hours then boil them for awhile then grill them


There are people here that would kill you for poking holes in brats.



Yeah, see, in the whole struggle to get them adequately cooked without drying them out, I can't believe that poking holes in the casing isn't going to do more harm than good....

 

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I eat them raw like a real man then punch a saber toothed tiger in the face and sound a ceremonial roar to Odin.

 

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