Barbecuing vs Grilling vs Smoking – How These Different Cooking Methods Work
When it comes to summer, there is nothing better than enjoying an outdoor cookout with family and friends. Barbecue is the world’s oldest cooking method and has become ingrained into the American lifestyle. In fact, according to the Hearth, Patio & Barbecue...
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Electric vs Charcoal Smokers: Which One Is Best? More Importantly, Which One Is Best For You?
The Pros, the Cons, and the Facts in this Electric vs Charcoal Smokers Showdown. It seems simple enough to go to the store or surf the web for a reliable smoker. For some, this means scoping out a few smokers, reading the reviews, and then making a...
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Are Electric Smokers Healthy? – We Deep Dive To See If They Are A Healthier Choice to Prepare Food
The myths, the misconceptions, and facts about healthy eating with electric smokers. With the increasing popularity of electric smokers that’s taking over the culinary scene, you may be wondering ‘are electric smokers healthy?’ Well, we’re here to give you...
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How Does A Smoker Work? – A Grillers Guide To Using An Outdoor Smoker
Smoking meats are one of the oldest forms of cooking known to man and are a great way to seal in flavors in large and small cuts of meat. Smoking is a form of cooking, flavoring, browning, or preserving food by the process of exposing it to smoke from...
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13 Insanely Easy Grilling Techniques To Improve Your Cooking Game (That You Can Use Today)
Imagine if you could add one simple tweak every time you grill and see an instant improvement in your outcome. Or even better: What if there were 13 simple tweaks… …and each of them could bring you that much closer to the perfect cook? If you’re anything...
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How Does a Propane Smoker Work? – The Convenience May Surprise You
There’s certainly nothing wrong with taking the tried and tested approach of smoking your meat the old-fashioned way by using a charcoal or wood smoker. There’s something to be said about the practiced skill required to correctly maintain the flames,...
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7 Tips for Grilling and Eating Healthy All Year-Round – A Grillers Guide To Healthier Cooking
Today I am happy to present a special guest post from Dylan Foster of healthwellwise.com. We’ve been having a few back and forth conversations about healthy grilling and what methods or techniques could be used to grill healthier without sacrificing the...
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Why Buy a Traeger Grill – Read This And Decide For Yourself
The Pros, the Cons, and the Facts about Traeger Grills Brand Pellets Grills. Is a new pellet grill on your wish list this year? Are you having a hard time wrapping your head around the seemingly endless amount of pellet grill brands claims and promises? If...
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Are Pellet Grills Healthy? What You Need To Know Before You Buy
The myths, the misconceptions, and the facts about healthy grilling with wood pellets and pellet smokers. If you believe the buzz, pellet grills are the next best thing since sliced bread in the outdoor cooking world. You may have heard people touting the...
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How To Choose A Wireless Digital Meat Thermometer For Grilling And Smoking
Buying a wireless digital Meat thermometer can be a tad bit overwhelming. Between the many different brands, options, manufacturer claims and price points, it’s enough to make you want to give up and continue guesstimating the doneness of your meat....
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The 10 Best Digital Meat Thermometers For 2018 – Wireless Probe Thermometer Reviews And Buyers Guide
This updated Top 10 Best Digital Meat Thermometers Ratings Guide for 2018 includes five new first time entries to this list that I am excited to share with you. Can any of these new entries replace last year’s choice for best wireless probe thermometer? You will...
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Top 20 Best Heat Resistant Gloves For Grilling For 2018 – Best of The Best Reviewed
If you regularly do any type of grilling, smoking or any other variation of outdoor cooking, then I’m sure you have your share of battle scars and burns to show for it. Run of the mill garden gloves or cotton gloves aren’t going to cut it when it comes to...
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10 Awesome Grilling Gift Ideas to Inflame the BBQ Master on Your List This Holiday Season
Since the holidays occur in the middle of winter, you rarely stop to consider grilling gift ideas, being that grilling is primarily a summertime pleasure. Contrary to popular belief, a Christmas gift doesn't have to be something that's only useful in...
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How to Dry Brine a Turkey – The Secret To Serving The Juiciest Thanksgiving Bird
Learning how to dry brine a turkey will change the entire way you approach Thanksgiving. Put away any fears about a dry, burnt, or rubbery bird that tastes more like turkey jerky. If up to this point, you've been a fan of wet brining the holiday protein, it's time to...
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5 Must-Have Gadgets You Need Now For Winter Grilling – Grilling In The Winter Made Easier
I know it’s a common perception that wintertime means that grilling season is over. But for many of us, that couldn’t be further from the truth. Anyone who suggests that grilling in winter is crazy or unnecessary has never cut into a juicy, piping hot,...
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6 Reasons Why You Need a Remote Digital Food Thermometer This Thanksgiving
Cooking Thanksgiving dinner with a remote digital food thermometer is a game-changer. The holiday is stressful enough without worrying about overcooking—or, worse, under-cooking—the sacred turkey, yet that's the number one reasons for a depressing dinner. You can't...
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Dry Brining vs Wet Brining – Which To Use, When, And Why
Dry brining vs wet brining is our topic of discussion today. We will be going over the pros and cons of each so you have the information you need to decide on your winner. Brining is a magnificent tool in any chef’s toolbox of meat preparation. Any...
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What Is Wet Brining? A Grillers Guide To The Benefits Of Wet Brining
Brining is not a new concept. Curing meat is recorded throughout history, dating back thousands of years, and as long as there have been curing techniques, brining has been alongside. It was originally used to preserve meat for later consumption. But what is wet...
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How Does Dry Brining Work – A Grillers Guide To Dry Brining
Dry brining is a big step towards phenomenal flavor in grilled meat that you’ve been looking for. Regardless of the skeptics’ thoughts, brining doesn’t have to include extra water. In fact, since I was introduced to dry brining several years ago, I practically never...
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How To Brine Meat – An Intro And Guide To Brining
Brining is an age old tradition that brings meat to a new level of juiciness and flavor. Originally used as a way to preserve meats, the process is continued to be used as a way to aid the flavor and texture of meat. It is basically a salt and spice bath for meat. ...
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How To Grill Pork Chops On A Gas Grill – The Perfect Chops You’ve Been Waiting For
If you are like many a back yard chef out there who has yet to attempt pork chops on a gas grill because you think it is too hard, then this article is for you. Many people are inclined to shy away from grilling pork chops because they haven’t mastered the technique...
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How Long Does It Take To Smoke Ribs in a Charcoal Smoker?
Everyone enjoys the taste of barbecue, but not everyone is up to speed on how to cook it. This is especially the case when it comes to smoking ribs. Even some of the most seasoned pros are left wondering how to get that perfect, BBQ circuit taste. So how do you get...
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How to Use a Charcoal Smoker – A Griller’s Guide To Using A Charcoal Smoker
Have you ever tasted the mouth-watering goodness of smoked brisket at a BBQ Shaq or a friend’s house and imagined yourself preparing the same? Although smoking your own meat is considered by many to be a fine art, it certainly isn’t rocket science. Even a newcomer...
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Preparing For A Cookout – Why Prep Time Saves Time
If you are planning your next big epic cookout and are expecting the whole family to be there, chances are good that you are going to need some help. It’s never too early to get organized when the stakes are this high and everything has to come out right. Preparing...
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The Advantages Of Using A Digital BBQ Meat Probe – Why You Shouldn’t Be Grilling Without One
Why Upgrading to a Digital BBQ Meat Probe is Fantastic All the best grillers know that temperature control is key for BBQed meat. Make sure you properly cook steak, chicken, pork chops and more with a digital BBQ meat probe. The immediate temperature reading makes...
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Charcoal Chimney Starter Instructions, The Best Way To Light Your Grill
If you are a charcoal griller, chances are you’ve had issues lighting your coals at one point or another. Don’t worry, it has happened to most of us. While there are plenty of fancy pants options out there that will get the job done, one of the cheapest, safest,...
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What Is Indirect Grilling – Why And How To Grill With Indirect Heat
Perfectly seared steak, crispy skinned chicken, and caramelized pork chops are all made possible by grilling with indirect heat. What is indirect grilling? The process uses the same grill that you pull out for a summer barbecue, but a few technical peculiarities make...
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How To Buy A Charcoal Grill – A Grilling Life’s Charcoal Grill Buying Checklist
Let's address the first question...well, first. Charcoal or gas? With so many options available on the market, a buyer will need to answer this fundamental question before heading to the store. The answer is quite simple, really. It depends on how you like to...
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Charcoal Grilling Tips And Techniques – The Grilling Life
What greater way is there to celebrate summer than using a charcoal grill? The smell of searing steak, the feeling of heat radiating off the grill, and the salivating crowd of friends around you all make a charcoal grill essential for summer days. To make sure you...
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Pellet Grill vs Gas Grill, The Ultimate Showdown! And The Winner is?
There's certainly nothing quite like a pair of succulent sausages or a juicy T-bone steak that have been grilled to perfection. It's a well-known fact that debates rage on about what...
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How To Start A Charcoal Grill, A Grilling Life’s Grillers Guide
Grilling with charcoal is a great way to treat yourself and the ones you care about to a flavorful and appetizing meal while demonstrating your prowess with the fine art of grilling at the same time. Unlike gas-powered grills where you just turn a knob and all the...
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What Is A Propane Gas Grill? – An Introduction To Outdoor Propane Gas Grills
What Is A Propane Gas Grill? – An Introduction To Outdoor Propane Gas Grills And Their Many Options More than ever before, people are getting outside to enjoy outdoor grilling. It is becoming an increasingly popular method of cooking. There is just something...
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A Guide To The Many Types Of Outdoor Grills
Types Of Outdoor Grills Cooking outdoors over an open flame has been popular ever since our prehistoric ancestors discovered fire. And those flames are still going strong today. In fact, it’s more popular than ever. Three out of four U.S. adults own a grill of some...
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A Grillers Guide To Salting Your Steak, Salting Steaks Before Grilling
When is the perfect time for salting steaks before grilling? I can’t count how many times I have seen this question asked online, or how many contradicting answers I've come across while trying to find the answer. With all the conflicting info out there, I decided I...
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The Reverse Seared Tri Tip With a Beef Base Rub Recipe That Sent Me To Carnivore Heaven
Tri Tip is one of my all time favorite cuts of meat to cook on my grill. Don’t get me wrong, I love the challenge of a perfectly cooked Rib Eye, slow smoking a beef Brisket or anything I put on the grill when it comes right down to it. There’s just something about a...
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20 Grilling Mistakes You Probably Don’t Know You’re Making
20 Grilling Mistakes I would like to applaud all of the awesome backyard barbecuers out there who take a step by step, methodical approach to great grilling. You are getting rewarded with smokey and flavorful results because of this. Unfortunately, there are just as...
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What is a Pellet Grill? – An Introduction to Pellet Grilling
No self-respecting BBQ enthusiast would use an electric Pellet Grill, right? Right? Except they are. Wood Pellet Grills are slowly becoming one of the fastest growing trends in the outdoor cooking industry. Their popularity is surging and for a good reason. They are...
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Traeger Smoked Thanksgiving Turkey – Taking It To A Whole New Level
Hi all. It’s that time of year again when everybody starts frantically looking for awesome turkey recipes and the best cooking methods online. Why not try something different this time around and use your Traeger to slow smoke your Thanksgiving Turkey. Traeger Smoked...
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The Reverse Sear Steak Method – The Best way to Reverse Sear a Steak
Reverse Searing Steak the Right Way If you are unfamiliar with the reverse sear steak method, you're really missing out. If you have been considering trying it, I highly suggest giving it a go. This advanced technique may take a little practice, but once you get it...
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Grilling Steaks on a Charcoal Grill – Everything you Need to Know to Get It Right!
What is the Best Way to Cook Steaks on a Charcoal Grill? You just dropped big bucks on some prime beef and your mouth has already started watering in anticipation. You’re going to be grilling steaks on a charcoal grill and your guests will be arriving soon. They have...
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Grilling Tips and Techniques, 18 Fun BBQ Hacks to Try
Want Some Of My Favorite Grilling Tips Techniques? Read On For 18 Useful BBQ Hacks To Try During Your Next Cookout. Even if you are an experienced griller with many a mouthwatering and fire-kissed meal under your belt, there are always new grilling tips techniques...
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Meat Temperatures Doneness, How to Tell Without Overcooking
Today I want to talk about Meat Temperatures Doneness and How to Tell Without Overcooking it. I hate to admit it but I had another “DOH” moment the other night while grilling chicken breasts for the family. Things couldn’t have started out better. I had four...
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How to Grill in Winter, and Become an “Extreme Griller”
Now that winter is coming, most people are prepping their grills for a long storage nap. If you’re like me though and believe that grilling is a year-round sport and crave the unmistakable flavors of barbecued food year round, then it’s time to discuss how to grill in...
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Charcoal Lighting Techniques, There are More Than you Know
I had one of those rare “free” nights last week where everybody had other plans for the evening and I had the house to myself. I decided to pick up a couple bottles of my favorite beer and a thick Rib-eye steak on my way home from work and throw it on the grill. Smile...
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How To Grill Like A Pro – My Top Tips for Mastering Your Next Cookout
Hi all. Today I want to give my top tips on how to grill like a pro. Yes, even you can grill like you are one of the top pitmasters on the competitive barbecue circuit without ever leaving your own backyard. All it takes is a little planning, preparation, and...
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And the Debate Goes On: Cooking with Charcoal vs Gas Grills
The Pros, the Cons, and the Facts in this Cooking with Charcoal vs Gas Grills showdown. Perhaps the greatest BBQ debate of all time is Cooking With Charcoal vs Gas Grills. I am sure you have heard it discussed before and if you are an avid griller, chances...
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