Grill Maestro

The potato is the perfect grilling vegetable because you can pretty much mess everything up and the potato is still pretty good. You can slice them, dice them, cube them, or leave them whole and they’ll turn out great on the grill no matter what you do. The key is simply letting them cook all [...]

Grilling with wood chips is one of the great secrets in barbecue and getting that smoky flavor into the meat is something most weekend grill maestros don’t often do. That being said, grilling with wood chips in charcoal is a relatively easy task - you simply sprinkle the chips in with the charcoal and the [...]

If you recently purchased a new grill, a very important tip that isn’t stressed enough (or publicly enough) is that you need to “season” it. Seasoning refers to coating your grill grates with some sort of vegetable oil in order to protect them int he cooking process.
You can season before you cook or, if you [...]

The rule of thirds is something I read in an article by Les Brand, the author of The Barbecue Hut, and it refers to splitting up the space on your open charcoal grill into different temperature areas. He recommends that you only layer coals underneath two thirds of your grill, for the highest temperature cooking [...]

The Washington Post ran an article yesterday on how to pick the perfect steak and so I, of course being the novice, had to share this with the rest of you all.
The biggest thing I took away from the article was that the butcher behind that counter at the supermarket might not know more than [...]

Don’t want to go out and buy BBQ sauce at $5 a bottle? Make your own with a 20 cent can of coke, some ketchup, and any spices you like personally.
Here’s a recipe I think would work out nicely:
1 cup - Coca Cola
1 cup - Heinz Ketchup
1/2 tsp. pepper
1/2 tsp. garlic powder
1/2 tsp. paprika
1/2 tsp. [...]

I had no idea this technique even existed until Mike from the Cigar Intelligence Agency, who left a comment on my Carnival of the Vanities submission post on starting a charcoal fire, clued me in on the idea of a charcoal chimney.
So basically you use a charcoal chimney (the one pictured above is a Weber [...]

The first step of your barbecuing career, before you do anything else, is to buy your first charcoal grill. Like a good beer or a fine woman, the perfect charcoal grill is all up to your own personal preferences and needs. Some like their beer (and their girls) a little hoppy, some like them bitter, [...]

Like riding a bicycle, starting a charcoal grill is a little tricky but easy once you figure out how.
1. Pile the charcoal briquettes in a pyramid in the middle of the grill. It should be enough charcoal to make a layer or two at the bottom of your grill but not much more.
2. Check the [...]