Grill Maestro

You’ve just cooked up a bunch of burgers, a couple steaks, and some chicken and you are starving. The steaks are a perfect medium rare, the burgers smells great, and the chicken tastes wonderful because you already ate a smaller piece that strayed from the pack… you and your guests are ready to chow down, [...]

Paul Lukas, columnist at the NY Sun and friend of WhiteTrashBBQ, gives an honest review of a handful of BBQ restaurants, noting that New Yorkers really can’t appreciate the nuances and quality of good BBQ, judging by lines out the door. Paul liked Hill Country for their authentic Texas-style BBQ and Justin Timberlake’s Southern Hospitality [...]

About a month or so ago I was grilling up a great leg of lamb sent to me by the American Lamb Board along with some spices and some skewers. Well, apparently the leg of lamb was too greasy (I didn’t trim any of the fat, I wanted it to grill and infuse the meat [...]

Before I had to leave the country on some emergency family matters, I was sent a gorgeous looking leg of lamb from the American Lamb Board along with four skewers, huge bags of spices, a thermometer, and several recipes cards. The package arrived in a styrofoam box with the lamb vacuum sealed and packed with [...]

Having grown up in New York, I’m an avid reader of the New York Times and absolutely love their Style section, where you can also find the Dining and Wine subsection. In that Dining and Wine section you’ll find a great little column called The Minimalist written by Mark Bittman and this week his article [...]

Those seven woods listed in the title (Alder, Cherry, Hickory, Maple, Mesquite, Oak, and Pecan) are the seven most popular types of wood you can use in your smoker and each one imparts a slightly different flavor to your meats. A particular type of wood and its flavor works well with different types of meat [...]

Ugh, so when I used my smoker two weeks ago (I’m still eating beef and pork from it, it’s sooooo good), one of the things I learned was that putting something like beef in a smoker for several hours tends to dry things out. Even at regular 200 degree heat with apple juice, cooking something [...]

Ultimate Tongs huh? That’s quite a pronouncement for an accessory, don’t you think? Well, the Ultimate Tongs are better than your average tongs and at a MSRP of nearly $20, they better be.
Here are some very useful features you won’t find in your regular crap metal tongs:

A one-hand locking mechanism that keeps the tons [...]