FireWire Kabobs

Ron_L · Oct 8, 2011

We bought some FireWire flexible skewers at the KCBS banquet in January and finally got around to use them tonight

I took skinless boneless chicken breasts and marinated them in the house dressing from a local pizza place and skewered them with a mix of green and orange bell peppers, sweet onions, zucchini, mushrooms, pineapple, and canned potatoes (regular potatoes don't cook fast enough). Then I grilled the kabobs while basting with the extra dressing. They came out very good and the Firewires worked well. I looped the straight end through the loop at the other end and used that point to pick them up and flip them.

troytime · Oct 8, 2011

i like mine a lot and use them regularly

at first it was a bit tricky to keep the pointy end in the grill long enough to disinfect it and then use tongs to pull it out and leave it hang outside the grill

JMSetzler · Oct 8, 2011

I have seen those before and wondered if they are any good. I'm glad to hear a positive feedback on them from someone here. Thanks!

Gore · Oct 8, 2011

I have a set. I used them once. What I disliked was flipping the food. They didn't seem to have any grip and spun around inside the food. I had to use tongs to flip the individual pieces, which took a lot more time. Probably I should try them again, but I use wooden sticks and several metal skewers and never had such difficulties before.

troytime · Oct 8, 2011

Gore said:
I have a set. I used them once. What I disliked was flipping the food. They didn't seem to have any grip and spun around inside the food. I had to use tongs to flip the individual pieces, which took a lot more time. Probably I should try them again, but I use wooden sticks and several metal skewers and never had such difficulties before.

pick the whole thing up by the point and lay it back down again on the other side.

Gore · Oct 8, 2011

troytime said:
pick the whole thing up by the point and lay it back down again on the other side.

Thanks, I'll give it a try. I remember the last time, there was a LOT of slippage. That might work though.

DIRTYBIRDZ · Oct 9, 2011

I use mine all the time. Works great for me.

NorthwestBBQ · Oct 9, 2011

I thought you meant:

BigBobBQ · Oct 9, 2011

that looks very good, I havent tried kabobs yet but I will.

Al Czervik · Oct 9, 2011

Tasty looking kabobs Ron! :clap2:

twinsfan · Oct 9, 2011

Al Czervik said:
Tasty looking kabobs Ron! :clap2:

The FireWire cable looks tasty as well!

Ron_L · Oct 9, 2011

troytime said:
i like mine a lot and use them regularly

at first it was a bit tricky to keep the pointy end in the grill long enough to disinfect it and then use tongs to pull it out and leave it hang outside the grill

Why would you need to leave it hanging out side the grill?

Gore said:
Thanks, I'll give it a try. I remember the last time, there was a LOT of slippage. That might work though.

There was slippage at first. The diameter of the straight piece at the one end of the wire is bigger that the wire, so the whole in the food is bigger. But, it seemes that once the food shrunk a bit things tightened up.

Johnny_Crunch · Oct 9, 2011

My wife got me some of those but I have not tried them yet. Thanks for the motivator!

Phubar · Oct 9, 2011

Looking mighty Phine Ronelle!
We have those over here as well but I don't see much Dutch Brethren use them.
Most of the time we use these kind of SS skewers...

troytime · Oct 9, 2011

Ron_L said:
Why would you need to leave it hanging out side the grill?

so the tips aren't hot and I can use my bare hands to flip them.

deepsouth · Oct 9, 2011

awesome ron. we love using our firewires.

Ron_L · Oct 9, 2011

troytime said:
Ron_L said:

Why would you need to leave it hanging out side the grill?

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so the tips aren't hot and I can use my bare hands to flip them.

Makes sense. I just used tongs.

Shiz-Nit · Oct 9, 2011

food looks good Bro.

I have a set of them I like to use in the Big Green Eggs... I can get more on at one time useing them.

Gore · Oct 9, 2011

Ron_L said:
There was slippage at first. The diameter of the straight piece at the one end of the wire is bigger that the wire, so the whole in the food is bigger. But, it seemes that once the food shrunk a bit things tightened up.

The holes in my food never shrunk I guess. The food just spun around like a merry-go-round and always ended up with the same side down, of course. Seems like a bit of a design flaw.

Ron_L · Oct 9, 2011

Gore said:
The holes in my food never shrunk I guess. The food just spun around like a merry-go-round and always ended up with the same side down, of course. Seems like a bit of a design flaw.

I think that's a problem with any single-tine skewer. I didn't have a problem last night with the Firewire, but i have seen the same thing with metal and bamboo skewers. The dual tine skewers that Phu posted are great because they eliminate the spin.

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