Grill Maestro

I saw this recipe in an article about Asian Grilling printed online on the Winston-Salem Journal: 1/3 cup mushroom soy sauce 1/3 cup sugar 10 large garlic cloves, finely grated 2 teaspoons freshly ground black pepper 1 tablespoon vegetable oil 2 1/2 pounds hanger steak, cut into 8 (5-ounce) pieces In a large bowl, whisk [...]

Do infrared grills have a huge infrared laser inside them that direct a focus beam of photos that cooks your food in a jiffy? That’s actually what I thought before I started reading about them (okay, only half kidding). What actually happens is you take a conventional gas burner and focus the flame tightly and [...]

I was reading through a Forbes piece on some cool grilling accessories and saw one of the silliest things in the world, a wireless talking meat thermometer from Brookstone! What you do is stick a thermometer (attached to a transmitter) into what you’re grilling and carry the receiver which will indicate when the meat has [...]

I was looking around online for some classes focused solely on barbecue or smoking or anything like that and saw that the Weber Grill Restaurant, the brainchild of George Stephen who created the Weber Grill in 1951, actually offered barbecue cooking classes! The classes run 9AM on Saturdays at the Schaumburg, IL franchise of the [...]

Chances are when you’re preparing for a barbecue cookout, you’ll probably going to be tapping a keg or buying a few cases to help accentuate the cooking experience. In making that pivotal beer purchasing decision, have you taken into account what you’ll be cooking that day to make the most of it? If you’re like, [...]

If you’ve ever purchased a cut of meat and left it in your refrigerator for a few days, you’ll notice that it goes from that nice bright red color to a darker browner color. For the longest time I thought that when it turned that dark brown that the meat was on the verge of [...]

I was watching some Food Network TV show with Alton Brown when he gave this great tip for how to get your charcoal chimney starter started without much frustration. If you put too little newspaper, it burns up without starting the coals. If you put too much, there isn’t enough room for oxygen to flow [...]