Grill Maestro

My wife gave me a copy of The Great Ribs Book by Hugh Carpenter & Teri Sandison as a holiday gift and it’s a fun little book for the ribs aficionado, which I am. Overall, it’s heavy on recipes and light on actual rib preparation and cooking techniques, though that is typically the style when [...]

For Memorial Day weekend, I put together the Brinkmann SmokeN Grill Charcoal Smoker and Grill courtesy of Home Depot (get it there, if you want it, instead of Amazon.com, it’s only around $35 now; I provided the link for additional details) in order to provide this review of its features.
Overall, it’s a very affordable smoker [...]

A little while back I wrote about how Leslie Haywood, inventor of Grill Charms, was going to send me a package of Grill Charms to try out. Well, she got them to me within days but it wasn’t until recently that the weather cooperated and we grilled up some steaks this past weekend that turned [...]

Paul Lukas, columnist at the NY Sun and friend of WhiteTrashBBQ, gives an honest review of a handful of BBQ restaurants, noting that New Yorkers really can’t appreciate the nuances and quality of good BBQ, judging by lines out the door. Paul liked Hill Country for their authentic Texas-style BBQ and Justin Timberlake’s Southern Hospitality [...]

Ultimate Tongs huh? That’s quite a pronouncement for an accessory, don’t you think? Well, the Ultimate Tongs are better than your average tongs and at a MSRP of nearly $20, they better be.
Here are some very useful features you won’t find in your regular crap metal tongs:

A one-hand locking mechanism that keeps the tons [...]

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 [...]

WNBC recently wrote about a Consumer Reports “grill” test of two cuts of meat from four online vendors and found that Allen Brothers’ steak took top honors in the strip steak category and Lobel’s took the ribbon in the filet mignon group. The four online vendors were Allen Brothers, Omaha Steaks, Lobel’s and Costco. It’s [...]

I saw this bad boy at the library the other day and Al Roker’s smiling face convinced me I should borrow this man’s big bad book of barbecue from the biblioteca. Inside were 100 easy (yeah, they really are easy) recipes and each looked delicious. The best part about this book is that you can [...]