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10 years 4 months ago #40535 by Siscowet
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Per her request for an Argentine Asado, I pulled out my Argentine Parrilla for the wife's birthday party the other night. I wish I had taken some pictures to post. The night before, I minced up three bulbs of garlic, some fresh crushed black peppercorns, and made up a gallon of salt water. I marinated the meat in the refrigerator in that mixture over night, then brought the meat out to room temperature the next day. I fired up a maple log fire under the parrilla to hot coals, and cranked down the grill to just above the flames.
This is a list of what I put on my 4x 3 grill: 1 leg of lamb roast, 12 lamb chops, 6-2in thick bone in rib eyes, 2 whole venison tenderloins, 6 venison chops, and six big chorizo sausages for appetizers. It fed 20 people, and I am still feasting (happily) on the left overs. I am sure the real definition of Asado in Spanish is "Death by Meat.
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10 years 4 months ago - 10 years 4 months ago #40538 by OleCowboy
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LOVE IT, made my mouth water, guess I will need to head down to:

www.texasdebrazil.com

or

www.fogodechao.com

We have both here in San Antonio and its an incredible experience, well worth the price tag.

Here is me an ( Sec of Defense) Bob Gates having dinner at Texas de Brazil in San Antonio. Look at the wine wall behind us. It goes from wall to wall, floor to ceiling. So you order a bottle of wine and a girl, on 2 ropes does a incredible acrobat routine to get your bottle of wine.

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10 years 4 months ago #40541 by Siscowet
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Cowboy, if you ever get down to Patagonia, you will be in gastronomic heaven. They butterfly and cook whole cows and lambs. In El Calafate, Patagonia, Argentina, they have a Festival of the Lake where they cook 150 cows at once, and the whole town feasts. But you have to bring your own knife. And unless you request "jugoso" every thing is well done. You would like the Gauchos too.Born to horses and the pampas. Two of them made us Christmas Eve dinner two years ago, then put on a display of horsemanship and bolo throwing.I will never forget it.

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10 years 4 months ago #40543 by NightForce
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Good Lord Sisco, after reading what's for supper I started drooling all over my self. :laugh: ...Boy does that lineup make my mouth water!! :drool:

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10 years 4 months ago #40573 by Libertarian623
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Sisco - I am contracted to build a Parrilla for a gentleman in the fall. I have a technical question. When you are cooking with it , do you have a steady fire going on the one side and then transfer cooking coals to the other as you need them. Or is it just fired up and when the coals are ready the grates go in.

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10 years 4 months ago #40575 by Siscowet
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Lib, good question. The traditional Parrilla has an area to build the fire, then the coals are transferred to the cooking area. Mine doesn't have that. I was given it by a Guatamalan family, who got it as a gift from an Argentine friend. It was really rusted out and beat up when I got it. It is a basic parrilla. I build the fire right on the grate and let it burn down then start cooking. I will take some pictures today and post them for you to give you an idea of what it looks like. Very Large parrilla's are often built with an angled floor, so that the fire is built up and tended in the back, and a rake is used to pull the coals down and forward under the cooking meat. I will also dig up some internet links I have visited in the past about Parrilla's.

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10 years 4 months ago #40577 by Siscowet
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Lib, one of the most important differences in a Parrilla is the Grate. It is made of channels in the Shape of a "V" to channel melted grease and drippings away to discourage flare ups.a sample picture is below.
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10 years 4 months ago #40579 by OleCowboy
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www.google.com/search?q=how+to+build+a+P...AQ&biw=1588&bih=1203

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10 years 4 months ago #40585 by Siscowet
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For those of you interested in this type of cooking and Patagoinia
www.amazon.com/Seven-Fires-Grilling-Arge...ng+the+argentine+way

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10 years 4 months ago #40586 by Siscowet
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Lib, those pictures as promised. As I said it is pretty old and beat up. Interestingly the rust disappears when the grate gets hot. As you can see, it is pretty rudimentary, a grate, a grate for the coals, an Ash drawer underneath, a windscreen and a crank assembly to adjust grill height. In the second picture, you can see the mechanism to adjust grill height and lend stability. A flat steel rod on the wind screen with a matching steel channel welded to the side of the grate. This attaches to a chain that is attached to the steel pipe across the top. A circular flange with holes drilled in allow a steel pin to be inserted to lock it at that height.
The grill is balanced with a slight forward cant to make it easier to tend and remove food items off the fire.
The grate is all V channel iron with another channel the grease drains into and an extended spigot on the left side with notches you can hang a can on to catch the grease and drippings.
I will eventually build a permanent one, as I am hooked on this way of cooking. Makes a hell of a good party!


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