Grill Maestro

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 [...]

Grilling with cedar planks is another step up the rung in your ladder of success to becoming a grill master and it’s remarkably easy and cheap to grill with cedar planks. You can get a set of four of them for under $15 (pictured is a set by Smith & Hawken) and all you need [...]

If you have one of those Weber type circular grills with the removable lids, look inside and try to find that metal hook. That hook is what you use to hang the lid when you’re lifted it off (and don’t want to set it down on anything). If it seems like that hook isn’t going [...]