Grilling The Perfect Brats

Hi folks, it’s Mike with GetMyTips.com with my technique for cooking Brats on the grill. Now I use a cast iron skillet and some hickory chips to flavor the Brats while they are cooking. Cooking Brats in a cast iron skillet helps prevent that burning and scorching and erupting that you see when you cook brats directly on the grill.

So let’s go outside and see how we do that. Okay, it’s been about 15 minutes now; and you can see that the hickory wood chips are starting to smolder, so it is time to put the cast iron skillet on. Now I always use an oven mitt anytime I touch a cast iron skillet. It’s just a habit; because if a cast iron skillet is hot, it can fool you and you can really get burned. So let’s close the grill and let the Brats start cooking.

Our pan, with the brats in it, has been on the grill for about 10 minutes. So let’s take a look. Oh yeah, looking good. Hickory smoke is going around. All right. See how nice and symmetrical these are. They haven’t exploded. They are sticking a little bit. I believe I’m going to have to put on my oven mitt. It’s rather warm. Shake them a little bit if they stick, break them loose. Let’s let them cook some more and we’ll be back.

Back at the BBQ, cooking time has been about 20 minutes. Let’s use our Thermapen temperature tester to check the internal temperature of the sausage. These are definitely done. We are looking for 160 degrees and these are definitely cooked.

All we need to do now is put some grill marks on them so they look nice.

Okay folks, there you have it. That’s my version of how to cook brats on the grill using a cast iron skillet with some hickory wood chips to add flavor.