Grill Maestro

On the typical BBQ plate, you have a whole lot of meat paired with a whole lot of other meat. You might slide in some potato/macaroni salad or some bake beans, but want to add something different to the flavor profile?
Well, the HPBA teamed up with the BBQ Queens, Judith Fertig and Karen Adler, to [...]

One of my best money savings tip for new grillers is to buy a used propane tank to swap out at your local Wal-Mart/Home Depot/Lowes. Where can you find a used propane tank? My #1 suggestion is to scour your local Craigslist or Freecycle sites for people giving away their old grills. The grill itself [...]

Main Street, a pseudo life-style / money blog of TheStreet.com, published a quick hit list of tips near the Fourth of July Weekend. The tips were pretty basic, even to a novice like me, but worth checking out if you’re new to grilling. They briefly discuss the merits of charcoal vs. gas and the use [...]

When it comes to grilling (and cooking general), one of the most powerful tools in your belt isn’t your tongs or your fork or your thermometer - it’s your salt shaker. Salt, technically a mineral and not a spice, intensifies the taste of anything and allows the existing flavor to shine. It’s funny how that [...]

Corn on the cob is delicious. Corn on the cob the grill is heavenly… if you do it right. Fortunately, the right way is pretty easy and there are several “right” ways to do it. I personally prefer the first husk on option, as it reduces the amount of waste, but any of the three [...]

The concept of direct and indirect cooking is crucial whenever you’re talking about becoming a bona fide Grill Maestro (I am not one yet, but I’m working on it!). It sounds simple enough, direct cooking is when you cook directly on the fire or heat whereas indirect cooking is when you let the cooking occur [...]

Let’s say you’re smoking or grilling in the early afternoon, simply because the mood strikes you, but you find out that your friends will begin descending on your abode for dinner. You know that if you toss the cooked meats in the fridge and then bring them out later, it won’t taste as good. You [...]

Whenever cooking burgers, I usually cook to both time and touch. That means I cook until the burgers to what I consider an adequate amount of time and to a firmness is what I associate with a particular level of doneness. This, however, can be dangerous according to some studies. In fact, courtesy of Megan [...]

In the mood to grill some fish but don’t have a basket or cedar planks to grill on? Try making a temporary grilling platform using a piece of cardboard wrapped in aluminum foil. That’s right, stiff cardboard wrapped in aluminum foil is a great way to create a small platform for you to grill fish [...]

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 [...]