Grill Maestro

The 16th Annual 2008 Safeway National Barbecue Battle is a little over a month away, taking place in our national’s capital the weekend of June 21st and 22nd. This year, the National Pork Championship will be held there so look for it to be a rowdy and exciting weekend. Last year I wanted to go [...]

For Memorial Day weekend, I put together the Brinkmann SmokeN Grill Charcoal Smoker and Grill courtesy of Home Depot (get it there, if you want it, instead of Amazon.com, it’s only around $35 now; I provided the link for additional details) in order to provide this review of its features.
Overall, it’s a very affordable smoker [...]

If you’re as big a fan of chicken wings as I am, you should try grilling them rather than frying or broiling them in the oven. All you need to do is whip up a nice bbq chicken marinade, fire up the grill, and grill them as you would any other chicken piece. If you [...]

Consumer Reports offers up, as their tip of the day for May 17th, some very useful gas grill shopping advice for those of you looking to get your own propane grill (or replace and old clunker ready for the scrap heap). Some solid advice includes bringing a magnet to figure out if you have a [...]

Until recently I didn’t know the difference between a rib eye and a porterhouse, a sirloin from a round, and a chuck from a flank… but this image from the Encyclopaedia Britannica does a great job of illustrating the various cuts of beef and where they are located on the cow.

Generally, the more muscular the [...]

This morning I took a trip to Home Depot to pick up the Brinkmann Smoke n’ Grill, courtesy of MS&L, and saw that Home Depot’s grilling and BBQ has been significantly expanded from the last time I’d been there and it’s barely Spring-time. In the past they only had about a dozen grills lined up [...]

When it comes to grilling and wood, the rule of thumb is to soak the wood in water for thirty minutes to an hour. Whether it’s wood chips and chunks for the smoker or cedar planks for when you want to grill up some fish, you should always soak it for more than thirty minutes [...]

A few weeks ago I was contacted by Home Depot’s PR firm about their new line of grill products and was offered the Brinkman Smoke N’ Grill to try out. So, this weekend I will be firing up the little guy on some beef ribs and pork tenderloin and letting you all know what I [...]