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About Us: Meet The AmazingRibs.com Team (2 Pages, 15 Articles)

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Launched in 2005, AmazingRibs.com started off as a hobby and labor of love. While it’s no longer a hobby, it has grown and morphed from a one-man amateur operation into a professional website that speaks with authority about barbecue, smoking and outdoor cooking.

The articles below give you some more background on who were are and what we’re all about. The main thing you should learn is that we are serious about food and cooking. The love of this shows in everything we do. Welcome to our home.

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About AmazingRibs.com And How We Operate

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Meathead, BBQ Hall of Famer

Here's a look behind the curtain at how this website works.
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Meet Meathead, The BBQ Whisperer, Mythbuster, And Barbecue Hall Of Famer

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Meathead, BBQ Hall of Famer

Meathead is the founder and publisher of AmazingRibs.com, and is also known as the site's Hedonism Evangelist and BBQ Whisperer. He is also the author of "Meathead, The Science of Great Barbecue and Grilling", a New York Times Best Seller and named one of the "100 Best Cookbooks of All Time" by Southern Living.

Meet AmazingRibs.com’s Team Of BBQ And Grilling Experts (37 Articles)

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Meathead, BBQ Hall of Famer

In the past, all the articles, recipes, tips and technique on AmazingRibs.com were written exclusively by Meathead. That's no longer the case. In 2017, we added some knowledgable writers and editors to provide new recipes and reviews.
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Media Coverage: We Have 13 Minutes Of Fame Left

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Meathead, BBQ Hall of Famer

The folks in the media love AmazingRibs.com and say nice things about us.
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DigestThis.news! Our Food News Service Keeps You Informed

Stay informed on what's happening in the wider world of food and cooking with this free food news service edited by our own Dave Joachim.
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Privacy Promise, Terms Of Service, GDPR Compliance, Code Of Ethics, Legal Disclaimers

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Meathead, BBQ Hall of Famer

AmazingRibs.com promises to never sell or distribute any info about you individually without your express permission, and we promise not to, ahem, pepper you with email or make you eat spam. We adhere to a strict code of ethics and our ads are sold by third parties so they cannot influence our reviews.
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Our Links Policy

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Meathead, BBQ Hall of Famer

This website is all about serving people who love food and drink. I carefully select links that I think meet the needs of my visitors. I spend a lot of time selecting links and writing about them.
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How To Get Reprint Rights To The Copyrighted Material On This Website

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Meathead, BBQ Hall of Famer

You need my written permission to publish or distribute anything on this website. But I'm easy.
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Organizations We Support

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Meathead, BBQ Hall of Famer

We support a number of charitable organizations.
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We Support Operation Barbecue Relief

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Meathead, BBQ Hall of Famer

Operation BBQ Relief is a charity that gets meals to disaster sites in a hurry by using pitmasters and competition teams.
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Why We Require You To Sign In Before You Can Post Comments

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Meathead, BBQ Hall of Famer

Asking people to sign in is our way of making folks accountable for what they say.
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Advertising Opportunities With The Leading BBQ And Grilling Resource

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Meathead, BBQ Hall of Famer

AmazingRibs.com is by far the largest and most popular barbecue and grilling website in the world. Advertising on AmazingRibs.com is a great way to build your brand or make direct sales.
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About Fake Amazon And Facebook Ads

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Meathead, BBQ Hall of Famer

Malvertising has become more pervasive on Android mobile devices especially a fake ad that congratulates you for winning something from Amazon. Symantec says that this year the "Congratulations" malware has been making a strong push onto Android devices with a Trojan horse called "Android.Fakeyouwon."
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We’ve Been Archived In The U.S. Library Of Congress!

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Dave Joachim

The U.S. Library of Congress has selected AmazingRibs.com to be included in its historic Food and Foodways Web Archive. Only a few dozen sites have been chosen, including the UN's Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the Center for Science in the Public Interest. We are in good company. What an amazing honor!
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How We Test Grills And Smokers

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Max Good, Full time grill tester

Max Good is the AmazingRibs.com Director of Equipment Reviews and Keeper of the Flame. He is the only person in the world who tests and reviews grills and smoker full time. Click now to discover how he evaluates the hundreds of gas and charcoal grills and smokers crowding the aisles at stores coast to coast.
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Testimonials From Our Loyal AmazingRibs.com Readers

Here's what people have to say about this website.

Published On: 2/14/2019 Last Modified: 7/16/2022

 

High quality websites are expensive to run. If you help us, we’ll pay you back bigtime with an ad-free experience and a lot of freebies!

Millions come to AmazingRibs.com every month for high quality tested recipes, tips on technique, science, mythbusting, product reviews, and inspiration. But it is expensive to run a website with more than 2,000 pages and we don’t have a big corporate partner to subsidize us.

Our most important source of sustenance is people who join our Pitmaster Club. But please don’t think of it as a donation. Members get MANY great benefits. We block all third-party ads, we give members free ebooks, magazines, interviews, webinars, more recipes, a monthly sweepstakes with prizes worth up to $2,000, discounts on products, and best of all a community of like-minded cooks free of flame wars. Click below to see all the benefits, take a free 30 day trial, and help keep this site alive.


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