Grill Maestro

*Hey BBQ Fans!* We’re looking for master grillers who have some skills with the grill and want to cook alongside Bobby Flay. If you have any friends, relatives, colleagues, or neighbors who would be interested in sharing their signature grilling recipe on TV, please pass the word around and post this casting notice [...]

I’ve never prepared lamb at home before and this week I’ll get a chance! Around mid-week, the American Lamb Board, which apparently is the “nation’s premier nonprofit promoter of American-raised lamb,” is sending me six to eight pounds of prime cut boneless leg of American lamb (on dry ice!), some recipe cards for Greek Style [...]

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 [...]

A few days ago I received an email from the folks at Culinate that some of their readers nominated me as one of the bloggers to go to a two days grilling school in Napa Valley (COPIA Cooking School’s two-day grill course taught by Andrew Schloss and David Joachim, authors of the best-selling Mastering the [...]

I always wondered how those charcoal briquettes are made and it wasn’t until I watched an episode of Dirty Jobs with Mike Rowe (episode was titled Micro-Algae Man and originally aired on Nov. 1st, 2005) did I realize what was involved in making charcoal. If you’ve ever been to a campfire, then you’ve probably realized [...]

I was looking around online for some classes focused solely on barbecue or smoking or anything like that and saw that the Weber Grill Restaurant, the brainchild of George Stephen who created the Weber Grill in 1951, actually offered barbecue cooking classes! The classes run 9AM on Saturdays at the Schaumburg, IL franchise of the [...]

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 [...]