Grill Maestro

The Carnival of the Vanities had a little drama this week when the original host opted to hand-select only a few posts much to the outrage of Laurence Simon at This Blog Is Full of Crap. My post about grill grates never made the first uber-elite Carnival but Laurence put me up front as the [...]

I love beef ribs. I love pork ribs. And in my years of making ribs, I always made the big ribs… never the baby back ribs. Sometimes I boiled them, basted them in sauce, and then threw them in the oven or put them on the grill. They were usually good but not great. Actually, [...]

The Food Network is quite possibly one of the best networks on cable television second only to perhaps ESPN and the History Channel. The guru of grilling on FoodTV is none other than Bobby Flay and he is the main host for two shows and a frequent appearance on another. The two he hosts are [...]

The pantheon of grill grate materials isn’t limited to the two listed above and you shouldn’t limit your choices to those two, those happen to be the two more popular choices. In addition to cast iron and stainless steel, you’ll often see porcelain coated cast iron and regular old iron. When it comes down to [...]