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so i've had my griddle here for about
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eight months now and
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i have made a lot of mistakes but i
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prefer the bob ross approach so i don't
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call them mistakes i call them
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happy accidents in this video i'm going
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to tell you my top 10 happy accidents so
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that you can learn from them
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and make better meals on your griddle
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cheers
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number 10 is melting bottles and plastic
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on the side here
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the heat comes out and it gets really
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really hot
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i mean there's four burners in here it
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makes sense i feel like an idiot saying
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it out loud
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but you're gonna melt plastic bottles
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even after i tell you this
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you probably will still melt them buy a
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bunch they're cheap
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but i also would have like little wear
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that i put out here for like scrambled
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eggs and i'd get them too close
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those will melt too so try not to put
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anything too close to the side that's
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gonna melt because it does put out a lot
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of heat
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number nine is not pressing your smash
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burgers down enough
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thin enough i mean you bought a griddle
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to make smash burgers and breakfast and
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you really gotta like
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press them down thin thin thin to get
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the real smash burger crust and have it
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cooking its own fat
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so make sure it doesn't matter if you
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have a weight or not you can use two
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spatulas
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but you just gotta press it down as thin
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as you possibly can to get that nice
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smashed burger you're looking for
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number eight is zone cooking so
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you got to think here you got one two
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three four burners
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and they don't all need to be on the
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same temperature so you can
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keep this lower for your eggs and keep
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this higher for your pancakes and bacon
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so make sure you utilize the four
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burners because
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you know i just had them all on high and
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not high because high's too too much
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i've just had them all
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on the same temperature like medium
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cooking bacon
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when i could be cooking bacon on one
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side and eggs on another
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or if you want to sear a steak so you
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could have it at like 450 right here
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to sear your steak but you could have it
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at like 375 here to cook your potatoes
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and let's say asparagus for a vegetable
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so utilize zone cooking i didn't really
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do that much at first you just got to
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get yourself a hard cut or soft cover to
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keep the rain away from the griddle
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because it's just going to start rusting
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and it's going to ruin your flat top and
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then you're going to have to sand it all
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down and start over
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it won't ruin it for good you can always
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just re-season it but
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i highly recommend getting yourself a
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cover for your griddle
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number six is worrying about what type
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of oil to use i was so worried at first
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just so many opinions online and you can
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just
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you can cook and season with vegetable
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oil or olive oil that you normally use
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people say you got to use grape seed
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because it has a higher burning point
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all
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or avocado oil is healthier or use lard
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or crisco it just
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whatever you want if you want to buy a
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seasoning from one of the camp chef or
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blackstone's
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pre-seasonings that they have go ahead
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and buy that but
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don't worry about the oil just just use
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the vegetable oil or canola oil in your
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fridge and start cooking
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number five is preheating your griddle
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on high
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do not i repeat do not preheat it on
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high you get something new you want to
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crank it up like it's a brand new car
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and you're just like i'm gonna throttle
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this thing all the way to the top
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and do not do that it says right in the
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can camp chef manual
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it probably says it in the blackstone
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manual i don't own one but you do not
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preheat your griddle on high
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start it on medium low check your
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temperature
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if you do it on high a you're gonna get
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to a temperature that is not even able
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to cook food at these things will get
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above 500 which is
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not really useful for anything and b you
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might
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warp your griddle like your brand new
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griddle which is really the only thing
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that you can
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ruin it if you get rust you can sand it
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off and then re-season if you warp it
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you better call the company and see if
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they'll send you a new flat top
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number four is getting all of your prep
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ready before you get out to the griddle
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if your griddle's outside and all of
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your food is inside then you want to get
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everything ready i have little ramekins
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i bought that are plastic they put stuff
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in i also have little glass bowls that i
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put stuff in
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and you just want it all ready double
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triple check your list before you go
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outside you don't want to have
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you know rice and shrimp and steak on
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for hibachi
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and then you think oh shoot you know i
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didn't grab the sesame oil
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you know like that's too late like
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you're already out there and you're
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yelling for your wife like go grab the
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sesame oil
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and uh you know that's not good for a
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marriage so uh
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make sure you have all your prep done is
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what i'm saying you could buy a tray
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some people buy them i just use a sheet
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pan like a cookie pan but if you want to
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buy a tray knock yourself out buy
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yourself a tray
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number three is cooking food in the
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wrong order
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you need to kind of learn how you're
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going to cook your food like at
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breakfast for example when i was a grill
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cook or
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at bob evans you always want to put your
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meat down first
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and then your potatoes and then you'd
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follow that up
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with your pancakes than your eggs your
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eggs are last because they're going to
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get cold
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and actually your toast is less but you
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don't want to toast your outside but you
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can put toast on the griddle put a piece
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of bread down
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let it toast up you still want to do
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that last with the eggs if you do the
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eggs first
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then you turn around and your over easy
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eggs are done and your bacon's like
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still limp and not done then by the time
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your bacon's done
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those over easy eggs are gonna be over
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hard eggs and you're gonna start over so
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make sure you do it in order general
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rule of thumb your meat's going down
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first then your potatoes
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then your veggie or eggs if you have
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eggs
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veggies cook just as quick as eggs
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they're really they cook up in a snap on
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those things
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number two is touching your food too
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much
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specifically potatoes i touch my hash
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browns and my potatoes a lot
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you have a griddle you kind of see those
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people like the
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steakhouse the hibachi and you just want
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to like get your spatulas and just keep
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swimming everything around and lifted it
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up but you're not going to get the brown
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crust you want on your potatoes
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also the same with steak you don't want
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to keep moving your steak you don't want
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to keep moving your smashed burgers
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you want them to be on that flat surface
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getting the sear
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at the high temperature well the steak
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and the smash burgers are high your
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potatoes are around 3.75 they're not
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quite as high
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but still if you want your potatoes to
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be brown and crunchy
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just leave them alone you got to leave
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them alone i like to put a white on them
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as well that's a different video
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i'll link it in the cards right now but
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you just gotta leave them alone
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same thing with your steak you put your
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steak on there you put your smashbrook
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down and you just gotta leave it alone
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and let the grill do its magic of
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cooking on that flat surface
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so don't touch everything too much
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except when you're mixing your fried
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rice then you can pretend
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you know that you work at a japanese
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steakhouse and flip shrimps into
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people's mouths and whatever you like to
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do on the weekend
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the number one mistake or happy accident
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sorry happy accident
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that i made on the griddle i know a lot
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of people make is
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not controlling the temperature i
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started cooking by the settings
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oh low medium high well that doesn't it
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doesn't tell you anything there's
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two variables of cooking time and
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temperature low
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is not a temperature low on my camp chef
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in columbus ohio in the middle of june
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right now is different than
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low on your blackstone in upstate new
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york in october
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two different things you have no idea
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you need to know what your temperature
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is i have an infrared thermometer and i
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have a surface thermometer
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is that excessive probably i don't know
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but i have a youtube channel about
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cooking on the griddle
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so it's worth it to me i'll link both in
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the description
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you don't have to use the link just go
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to the hardware store and get yourself
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an infrared thermometer if i was getting
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one i'd get the infrared thermometer
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and i'd understand my cooking
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temperatures to make sure i'm cooking
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stuff at the right
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temperature that it needs to be cooked
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at if you do go to the hardware store
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though also understand there's like
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don't spend more than 30 bucks this is
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what's gonna take your cooking to the
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next level this is where a lot of your
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problems will lie
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if you're burning your eggs if your
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pancakes are done on the outside but
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running on the inside
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if you're not getting the sear you want
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on your steaks or just everything cooks
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too fast
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you got to know your temperature and i
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did not at first and i burnt a lot of
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stuff
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and i was playing a lot of moving the
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knobs around after i start after the
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beginning now i have a better idea of
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where
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i put my griddle at when i want to come
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out and just cook
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a plain meal whether that's fried rice
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or breakfast or whatever
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so thank you so much for watching have a
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good one and keep on griddling
