Tips & Tricks

With summer here, the air should be awash with the smell of BBQs cooking up a range of treats and delights. Make sure you don’t miss out on a great BBQ …

Since the author is considered an expert in the art of barbecue, he is often asked what type of charcoal or wood do I use? Not sure that I have the expertise to be considered the barbecue guru to folks, but this is a question that I can answer from experience.

This article could change your life, or it could ruin your dining-out experience forever once you start making steaks at home this way.

For your safety (and your family’s as well), it’s ideal that you take extra precaution while working the grill. Buy gear that will protect you or will lower the chance of getting burned by the heat.

Compared to cooking on an electric or gas grill, using a charcoal grill is a bit more complicated because it is more “manual”. You have to exert more effort in building, controlling and maintaining the heat and fire. You also have to keep an eye on your food at all times. But if you can master a charcoal grill, using other types will be a breeze!

Smoking is the principal of seasoning, browning, cooking, or preserving food by exposing it to smoldering or burning material, usually wood. Meat, fish, and some teas are smoked.

It’s a question about as polarizing in barbecue circles as you can get without asking a bunch of purists what they they think about pellet grills.