Grill Maestro

Elizabeth Large’s Baltimore Sun blog, Dining@Large, taught me a new term today that I didn’t know – Pittsburghed. Having gone to college in Pittsburgh and home of the Pittsburgh Steelers, a hated football rival of the local Baltimore Ravens, I thought that this was going to be some sort of pejorative term but was delightfully [...]

Interested in getting a little caddie gas grill? Amazon has a phenomenal deal on the Char-Broil Patio Caddie Gas Grill for only $79.99 with free shipping. This Caddie Gas Grill normally costs a whopping $219.00 normally, now it’s less than eight bucks! For apartment dwellers with limited outdoor space, Char-Broil created their Patio Caddie grills. [...]

I read a recent post on ConsumerReports.org that indicated that propane fryers are unsafe! In fact, the Underwriters Laboratory (that ubiquitous UL you see on a lot of different things) refuses to certify them for safety and the National Fire Protection Association warns against their use. The problem is that Consumer Reports doesn’t really go [...]

On Wednesday we fired up The Big Easy and put in a pair of 4 pound chickens, I called them dueling chickens though they didn’t do much except sit in there and stare at each other. Unfortunately, I was a dope and not only did I put the chickens in upside down (it’s supposed to [...]

Char-Broil is having a Big Easy Thanksgiving contest where they’re giving away a FREE The Big Easy Infrared Oil-less Turkey Fryer. All you have to do is send in an easy recipe for Thanksgiving and they’ll select five finalists on November 22nd and then announce a Grand Price winner within a week. The winner gets [...]

In anticipation of a big Thanksgiving weekend with my friends (we have an annual Thanksgiving dinner with approximately fifty attendees), I put together The Big Easy Oil-less Turkey Fryer last night so I could put in a pair of chickens to break her in. All told the process took about twenty minutes but the instructions [...]

Char-Broil sent me their “Basket Case Tool Set” a few months ago and only recently did I get a chance to try it out. The course of the day was a few salmon steaks I picked up from Costco and using a basket is really the only way to cook salmon (unless you go the [...]

The meat industry has begun using carbon monoxide to treat their meat in order to preserve its bright pink color for weeks. That’s right, the same colorless, odorless, and extremely dangerous gas that could potentially kill you if inhaled in a high enough quantity. Though harmless in the quantities used in meat, it stinks (haha!) [...]

It’s been a busy few weeks here at the Maestro’s manor and I haven’t had a chance to do any fun experimentation with either the Charbroil TEC grill or the Weber Smokey Mountain Smoker, though I did do a little pedestrian grilling and smoking recently. BBQ Chicken Thighs The wonderfully delicious BBQ chicken marinade made [...]