Skewers

chowhound

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I've been meaning to buy some decent skewers. Right now I'm still using wooden throwaway ones. Lookee what Amazon sent me yesterday in an email. Pretty weird if you ask me, but they sound practical if you marinate in a bag.

[ame]http://www.amazon.com/Fire-Wire-Stainless-Flexible-Grilling/dp/B001BXMNAU/ref=pe_26470_12537170_fe_txt_4/[/ame]
 
Amazon gives the following dimensions:

Product Dimensions: 15.5 x 4 x 0.5 inches

That's the box, right? How long are the skewers?
 
The true test is how well they flip your food when it's time to cook the other side. If they don't flip well, then they're no better than anything else out there...
 
^^^that's a good point...I have some stainless skewers that are somewhat flat like these...
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But a lot of the time the food just spins on the skewer, or at least a few pieces spin, so it's a pain in the butt to flip.

I think if I were to get new skewers they would be more like this...
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Metal skewers in general are great for cooking with as the hot metal sears the meat from the inside as well but if you intend to serve them as eating implements too, they are not so great as the handle is too hot to handle. Bamboo in those cases is better.

So really, you have to start with the question "how are they being served?". And if you are cooking for large groups (or even for a solo meal), again bamboo is better as you don't have to wash them up at the end.
 
Bilby said:
BT, you know I eat my meat bleeding! Not however eat through a bleeding throat!!
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lol, me too. my mom used to let me drink the blood from the cutting board when i was a kid.

my pal ozzy used to order his steaks "just knock the horns off, wipe it's butt and drag it through the kitchen near a hot stove..."

getting back on topic: when i went through some of my mil's old kitchen stuff recently to toss out old, useless things, i tossed the showtime rotisserie but i kept the metal skewers to use on the grill.

and lol, elsewhere. one is currently serving as the antannae to the radio near my birds' cages. mandelbrot ain't got nothin' on me, booyah.

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chowhound said:
they sound practical if you marinate in a bag.
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I just marinate in the bag and then skewer right before I cook them

RobsanX said:
The true test is how well they flip your food when it's time to cook the other side. If they don't flip well, then they're no better than anything else out there...
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Since you can bend the shape, I imagine they could flip pretty easy

phreak said:
I have some stainless skewers that are somewhat flat like these...
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But a lot of the time the food just spins on the skewer, or at least a few pieces spin, so it's a pain in the butt to flip.
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Mine look like those, too, but I always grab the whole thing with tongs and flip...don't really have a problem with it.
 
bowlingshirt said:
I just marinate in the bag and then skewer right before I cook them.
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The way the write up read, skewering then marinating was supposed to reduce handling the marinated meat/food. That seems to make sense. Spear the food, coil it up, stick it in the bag, wash hands, then later reach in with your tongs and plop the skewer onto the grill.
I think it would be hard to remove the food once cooked though. Maybe if you straighten it back out.

Either way I think I'll pass on this one :biggrin:
 
phreak said:
^^^that's a good point...I have some stainless skewers that are somewhat flat like these...
31ZEJ8F8PCL._SL500_AA280_.jpg


But a lot of the time the food just spins on the skewer, or at least a few pieces spin, so it's a pain in the butt to flip.

I think if I were to get new skewers they would be more like this...
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+1

Wide and flat skewers are the way to go. Sorry Chow but those skewers you bought look more like a PITA than practical. You can buy some decent ones at Home Depot, Lowes, Bed Bath Beyond, etc. I bought these from HD for under $10, they're about 1/2" wide.

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I don't have any skewers other than the wooden ones I mentioned, Jeeks.
The link I provided was emailed to me from Amazon. I posted it for the hell of it, just in case others hadn't heard of them yet. I'd rate them as gadget (lol).
 
Gadget is right.

Wooden skewers work fine, some food you may want to use double skewers so it's easy to handle. They even make flat wooden skewers, still need to get me some of those.
 
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