The reason I have been cooking almost everything on my homemade smoker recently is because nothing tastes better than food cooked using something you built with your own two hands! My cousin Drew can now attest to this fact with his new pride and joy, a homemade cowboy style grill. Cowboy style grills are made to...
This set of grilling baskets and tray with lidded shaker on Amazon has me pretty excited. This set comes with a smaller tray for grilling items you don’t want to fall through the grate, I could live without that tray, but it comes with the set. I would seriously pay $25 for the lidded basket...
We had working lunch the other day (if talking about grilling is work) at the local J. Alexander’s. If you haven’t been there, it’s one of those places where you can see the folks in the back cooking your meal. Of course, the grill is conveniently located right by the waiting area so that you...
A quick lesson in how to brine a turkey. Brined turkey will be moist and flavorful. This brine recipe uses herbs to add some extra...
What? No oil? Seriously? Yeah, seriously. Don’t believe me? Check out this “virtual” demo by Charbroil and we can talk more after you are dazzled by the animation: So yeah, frying with no oil. The thing even catches the drippings so that you can still make that gravy! My only question is, how do you...
I’m only including this on a grilling site because it has happened to me more than once. I can recall many a tailgate and cookout where we were scrambling to find a screw to open the bottle. The old screw and pliers trick has nothing on this technique! Can’t be too hard either, because this...
This is probably going to be one of the best things I learn all week! I have eaten my weight in chicken wings over the years and I can’t believe I never had a single person in a sports bar show me this technique. I actually started ordering all drums recently, just because I was...
Since Halloween was on a Saturday this year, the neighborhood had a lot more time to plan a party. At this point, most neighbors have been down to check out the new bbq smoker. She’s now less ugly, with her new University of South Florida (Go BULLS!) paint job. My wife decided to fully embrace...
I’m learning a lot of BBQ vocabulary as I build my new smoker. I am a firm believer in “fake it til you make it”. So the other day when a BBQ aficionado asked “you seasoned that new smoker of yours, right”, I said “of course!” and then quickly pulled out my phone and jumped...
You know you are a real Cheapskate when you are trying to save $10 on building a $60 smoker that does the job of a $1000 smoker. Well, that’s me. As you already know, I am building a smoker. The barrel that I am using to build this thing cost $8 on Craigslist, so needless...
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