Grill Maestro

I hope you are enjoying the 4th of July with your friends a family!

Woman’s Day had a great article recently spotlighting ten of the craziest hot dogs you’ll ever see. Some of them are crazy and others are downright heart stopping (like the hot dog wrapped in a half pound of beef patty, then deep fried and topped with chili, bacon and a fried egg). The only one [...]

Reader Humberto built his own meat thermometer with a predictive filter. If you already understand what that all means, skip the rest of this paragraph. If you didn’t, that’s OK because it’s just fancy words for a simple idea. When you have a thermometer, the part of the thermometer that senses the temperature and the [...]

What does it mean to cure a piece of meat? Or what does it mean when a piece of meat is cured? Curing is a process by which you can preserve meat for longer periods of time. It’s a broad term but covers all the techniques from salting, drying, smoking, to even canning of meats. [...]

Unless we’re talking torrential downpour (and even then, even the most hardy will still brave the elements to fire up the grill), you can still grill when Mother Nature seems to have it out for you. For many, this just means throwing on a parka or raincoat and just grilling as you would normally but [...]

I love me some wings. Whenever I go to a place that serves wings, I check to see if they have any specialty flavors outside of the typical Mild, Hot, Insane variety. If they have a local flavor, like they do at Ropewalk in Baltimore (Raven wings, they’re grilled with hot sauce but then coated [...]

America, and I, love our hot dogs. If you have five minutes, check out this short video on how hot dogs are made, in case you never knew. (it’s not entirely appetizing, but I still like hot dogs and sausages anyway!)

BurnJel Plus, the makers of a wonderful salve for burns, sent me a list of kitchen safety tips I thought would be useful even for the more hardcore grillers. While these tips are focused for the kitchen, many of them apply to the grill as well. For example – “avoid wearing loose-fitting clothing” is something [...]

Real Simple recently published a story about common cooking mistakes and the very first one is a mistake that I’ve made before. The mistake? Not reading the whole recipe and instructions before starting… 7 Common Cooking Mistakes [Real Simple]

The HPBA (Hearth, Patio & Barbecue Association) is a great organization that frequently puts out fun consumer opinion polls and this Fall, one of the questions related to the worst BBQ attendees. Can you guess the number one most disliked person is? So much so that you would choose to not invite them? It’s the [...]