Grill Maestro

So I’m hosting a housewarming party this weekend and it’ll be the first party with food I’ve ever hosted so knowing how much food to get will be a bit of a challenge. If you take your average grilling consumer, they will at maximum eat a chicken breast and a burger in terms of meat. [...]

Popular Science has a little piece out with six different and new high tech grills and grill accessories for all you aspiring maestro’s out there.
First on the list is the TEC Sterling G 4000 FR Ifrared Grill (sic). Infrared heat is what your grill cooks with (it’s heat) but this $6,610 monstrosity is the [...]

When I bought my grill from Home Depot, it didn’t come with its own protective covering. Considering it was a $250+ purchase, the least the manufacturer could’ve done was thrown in an el cheapo $15 cover that could protect my baby from the sun, rain, sleet, and snow of Maryland - but alas, it was [...]

With grilling, you sear and cook the meat at high heat over a relatively short period of time. You do get a bit of the smokiness, more so if you’re using charcoal, but not a tremendous amount in part because of the high temperature (searing the meat prevents the smoke from becoming infused in the [...]

Grilling with cedar planks is another step up the rung in your ladder of success to becoming a grill master and it’s remarkably easy and cheap to grill with cedar planks. You can get a set of four of them for under $15 (pictured is a set by Smith & Hawken) and all you need [...]

You should always let your steaks come to room temperature, sitting them out about half an hour prior to cooking is long enough, but always marinate them in the refrigerator. If you have a tender cut of meet, you can get away with marinating them for as little as fifteen minutes but never more than [...]

If you’re like me, your ability to tell how much propane you have left in your tank by weight is a little spotty. If you’re also like me in this regard, you have a little yellow dot somewhere on the side that when exposed to warm water, will turn green (or some other color) when [...]