Foods & cuts · Cabbage

Cabbage wedges

Inch-thick slices cut through the core, about ten minutes a side. The core is structural rather than incidental — cut around it and there is no wedge, only leaves.

What it is

Form: Cut vegetable
Typical weight: 150–300 g
Typical thickness: 25 mm
Cut: Not a cut of anything

Why it behaves as it does

Iowa State gives inch-thick slices at about ten minutes a side on medium-high. What makes a cabbage wedge possible is that the core runs through every leaf, so a slice taken through it holds together; a slice taken any other way is a pile of leaves that will not survive a turn. It is the longest per-side figure of any cut vegetable here, and it is dense enough that the outer leaves char well before the middle softens.

When is it done?

Food-safety endpoint

BBQHQ holds no food-safety rule for this food. We are not showing you another jurisdiction’s figure in its place — check your national food-safety authority.

Texture endpoint — how you actually know

Charred leaves outside, yielding core

The outer leaves are blackened in places and the core gives under a knife. Cabbage is dense enough that the outside will look finished long before the middle is.

How long it takes

Cabbage wedges, grilled

Estimated cooking window

20 min

Low confidence

What this rests on

BBQHQ publishes a window for this cook.

Observations: 1
Documents: 1
Publishers timing this cook: 1

Iowa State University Extension and Outreach

Why confidence is not higher

At least one source does not state the cooker temperature.

How the sources were combined

ONE PUBLISHER, AND A PER-SIDE FIGURE MADE INTO A TOTAL. Iowa State gives 10 minutes per side on a medium-high grill; the 20–20 published here assumes one turn, which is the arrangement the article describes. That step is BBQHQ's and is declared rather than absorbed.

What makes the window as wide as it is

Cookers hold temperature imperfectly
Individual animals and pieces differ

When it goes wrong

Burnt outside, underdone inside: Vegetables charred outside and hard in the middle — 2 distinguishable causes.
It fell apart: Layered vegetables falling apart on the grate — 2 distinguishable causes.

Afterwards

Cooling, keeping and reheating what is left is general guidance for barbecue leftovers. Neither UK authority publishes anything specific to cabbage wedges, and BBQHQ does not invent a distinction they do not make.