Cooking For Engineers

[socal_chris]

I use my marinades to make barbeque sauces when I'm grilling and they always come out great.

One example of a common one I like is a chicken marinade. I use orange juice, garlic, a couple shots of tequila, soy sauce, Morton's Hot Salt or other chipotle seasoning, and a little ground black pepper. I marinade the chicken usually all day or overnight. When I start the coals, I put the chicken in a dish to the side and pour the marinade into a sauce pan. I reduce this on high and add about 1/2 cup of brown sugar, sometimes hot sauce or ketchup to spice and/or thicken it. I leave it on the stove while I begin grilling. Then I just take the sauce pan out to the grill and brush the sauce on the chicken several times on each side. Great compliment to the marinated flavors.

I've tried dozens of variations. Almost all were great. I'd love to hear if anyone else tries this and what they think.

[socal_chris]

Nobody else does this?

[kgb1001001]

I'll sometimes reduce any extra (unused) marinade into a sauce like this and add it at the end (there's a teriyaki sauce I marinade shrimp with like this) but you know you are NEVER supposed to reuse the marinade the meat was in after you take the meat out, especially if it was with chicken.

The bacteria that WAS on the surface of the meat is now in the marinade, which means its now in your sauce. Even if you manage to kill it all by raising the heat high enough, it may have been multiplying enough in the meantime to have made some nasty toxins...

[socal_chris]