Grill Maestro

A representative from Charbroil, actually it’s via a public relations person, responds to the issue of shearing screws in the TEC burner: Char-Broil has seen the messages posted on this and other forums regarding failing fasteners used in manufacturing of a limited number our TEC burners. We regret that a few TEC by Char-Broil Series [...]

About a month or so ago I was grilling up a great leg of lamb sent to me by the American Lamb Board along with some spices and some skewers. Well, apparently the leg of lamb was too greasy (I didn’t trim any of the fat, I wanted it to grill and infuse the meat [...]

I’ve done about two BBQ “parties” (more than just me and my fiancee) and about two dozen other random cooking sessions on the Charbroil TEC Grill and overall I have to say that I’m pretty satisfied with the TEC technology on the whole. The main benefit I derive from using the technology is the fact [...]

I had a small barbecue this weekend, showcasing the TEC grill to my friends and giving it a little more than a few steaks to contend with. On the menu? Some homemade burgers and some hot dogs. Well, I put the eight burgers on the TEC side of the grill and it was ridiculously smoky. [...]

This past weekend I took the time to put the Char-Broil TEC grill together and it took slightly longer than then estimated 30-45 minutes the instruction manual said to put aside, it took maybe an hour, mostly because I couldn’t get one pesky screw to catch. Regardless, it was certainly significantly less painful than putting [...]

One of the selling points of the Charbroil TEC grill was the fact that you wouldn’t have any grease flareups on the TEC… according to their Technology Fact Sheet: Surface: The radiant glass surface allow a wide range of cooking options. Self-cleaning cook surface protects the burner and eliminates messy clean up Cookware can be [...]

Here’s a question from a reader that I need you all’s help on: My gas grill is in bad shape. It has three burners in parallel. The jets on the first one are clogged or something. (Haven’t looked closely yet.) this results in the gas being “backed up” so that when I attempt to light [...]

Last night I tried firing up the grill to put on a couple ribeyes I bought from Costco when I noticed the fire seemed a little on the weak side. Remembering my experience with purging the gas lines, I tried to run the gas and then hit the ignition a few seconds later to purge [...]

When my tank ran out sometime in October, I was hesitant to refill it because I anticipating some colder temperatures coming our way here in Baltimore, MD and didn’t think I’d really need it. Yeah, it’s now January and there hasn’t been a single snowflake in sight (I doubt many made it out of Denver [...]

If your oven has a self-cleaning option (most do), throw all the removable metal pieces from your grill into the oven before you run the self-clean process and kill two birds with one stone. Just make sure you don’t throw anything that isn’t metal because it’ll get destroyed (it gets hot and it stays hot [...]