Grill Maestro

The other day I received a press release from a company announcing they had a Himalayan Salt Block on sale. Until that unsolicited email, I had never heard of anyone using a salt block in that way. If you aren’t familiar with salt blocks, the idea is that you put the block on the grill [...]

The latest Cook’s Illustrated reviewed four chimney starters. Chimney starters are cylindrical canisters that you can use to quickly start a charcoal fire. You stick the charcoal briquettes in a top chamber, stuck in some newspaper, and light it. The cylinder traps in a lot of the flame and heat so that much of the [...]

I was reading through Bobby Flay’s Grilling For Life book, a gift from my wife, and read this tip about buying electric coffee grinders to grind up your own fresh spices:
You should always have two: one for your coffee and one for your spices. Toasting and grinding your own spices makes such a big difference [...]

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 [...]

When I arrived at home yesterday after a long and exhausting day of work, I saw a huge box sitting on my doorstep. At first I thought it was my the Weber Smokey Mountain Smoker that I had ordered two days ago but I quickly realized that 1) it was way too soon, 2) this [...]

You’ve heard of grilling seafood, vegetables, and fruit on a cedar plank to infuse the rich woodsy flavor into the foods but the latest “craze,” so to speak, involves the use of thinly cut cedar paper that is usually large enough to hold a single cut of fish. The principle is the same, you’re cooking [...]

Don, the or one of the men behind the Smokenator 1000, was kind enough to send me one of their Smokenator 1000s for me to try and write about and write I will. First off, the Smokenator comes with a whole bunch of documentation that only a true smoker would be able to fully understand [...]

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 [...]

Wine Barrel Staves are a twist on your typical cedar planks grilling technique in that you can infuse the classic taste of wine into your foods instead of just “plain old cedar.” These staves were red wine barrels in a past life and now you can use them to impart a subtle wine flavor into [...]

Popular Science has a little piece out with six different and new high tech grills and grill accessories for all you aspiring maestro’s out there.
First on the list is the TEC Sterling G 4000 FR Ifrared Grill (sic). Infrared heat is what your grill cooks with (it’s heat) but this $6,610 monstrosity is the [...]