Grill Maestro

If the temps are rapidly dropping in your area and you are ready to shut down the grill for the winter (you can always grill in the snow!), be sure to give it a good cleaning before you throw on the tarp and let her rest for a few months. If you allow grease and [...]

I don’t know how many cooking shows I’ve seen where the grill maestro presses on the burgers to squeeze out some of the juices so they can hit the coals and “infuse” a burger with flavor. Wrong!
Never press down on a burger! Unless you enjoy dryer burgers (yuck), keep those juices inside the patty so [...]

Grilling the perfect burger can be tricky at times but with a few tips like this one, you should be all set to go. Today’s tip is:
Grill on high heat, six minutes per side. Six minutes is a rough estimate of course but the idea is that you should be able to flip the burger [...]

We’re getting cold around here in Baltimore and with the sun setting so soon (duh, it’s Winter), I don’t get to do much grilling after work anymore so here’s a little burger tip you can use next time you fire up some burgers.
Season the burgers right before you put them on the grill. If you’ve [...]

If you’ve ever been to a high end butcher or high end restaurant, you will no doubt hear about how the meat has been “aged.” What exactly does that mean? Aging is the time between when the animal is slaughtered to when it is cut up into pieces to be sold at the counter. The [...]

I know that counting calories seems to be the norm these days (as it should be, obesity is a problem and calorie intake should be monitored) but if you’re going to eat a burger, you might as well eat a good burger. The tip for today is:
Don’t make a burger with less than 20% fat. [...]

At the Grill Maestro household, we still are. Now that I think about it, I haven’t written about our Thanksgiving and how it was the first year in which we “fried” a turkey courtesy of the folks at Charbroil and The Big Easy. In fact, this Thanksgiving we fried it twice (once for friends, once [...]