Barbecue Food With Infrared Lamps

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No smoke, no flame just uses infrared heat.  Infrared rays must first penetrate an object before they cause heat so less apparent heat to you and faster cooking than conventional cooking methods.  Barbecued food under infrared lights is more succulent with more natural flavor in meat.
Note: the four 250 watt infrared lamps are industrial types with a hard glass face to resist shattering that will not crack or explode if grease or water spatters on the bulbs.
Not shown is 1/2 inch square pipe frame about 18 inches square assembled to hold aluminum drip pan or cookie sheet to reflect heat back into the food at bottom and the 3/8 inch rod to hold impaled meat above drip pan so a crank can rotate meat under the four lamps mounted above to extended 1/2 inch pipes with 4 photoflood springtype lamp sockets to shine on and cook the meat as it turns.

published 7 years ago

salam

7 years ago

Neat idea but glass absorbs IR you will need to use some other material.

hurz

7 years ago

@salam, UV gets absorbed by glass, but IR not

salam

7 years ago

@hurz are you sure about that? Seems like only near IR frequencies will be passed through and the rest would be absorbed and be a waste of energy.

westelaudio

7 years ago

You reinvented the electric stove.

hurz

7 years ago

@salam, such lamps do have extra thick glass to not break if a single drop of water fall on them and can easy pass IR. While in a car with closed glass windows you dont get a sunburn. convinced?

ViolationMad

7 years ago

@salam Okay so @hurz is totally right. The common types of glass all pass IR. Just go up to your window and check if you can feel the cozy warm feeling of the sun right? With UV however, almost all common types of glass block UVB. There are some exceptions made for e.g UV lamps and they are based of quartz as far as I know. Now there might also be some IR filtering types but they are not common. If you still have doubts, check for your self, it's really easy. Just take an IR LED (if you don't have them just use a TV remote) and use your phones camera to check if both of them work for this test. Now just put any type of glass in-between and you should be able to check if the glass acts like a filter.

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