The combination of ohmic and infrared cooking could provide improvement in quality characteristics of meatball samples while achieving energy efficiency and reduced total cooking time compared to conventional cooking methods. There is no study on the evaluation of color, texture and cooking characteristics of meatball samples treated with a system consisting of a combination of ohmic and infrared cooking. Infrared cooking is mainly effective for surface heating and in this study it was applied as a final cooking method following the ohmic pre-cooking to improve especially the surface appearance of beef meatballs. Meatball samples were ohmically pre-cooked via the procedure put forth by Icier, Sengun, Yildiz Turp, and Arserim (2014). The objective of this current study was to determine the effects of infrared cooking on color, texture and cooking characteristics of ohmically pre-cooked beef meatballs