Clint Cantwell is AmazingRibs.com’s President, charged with day-to-day operations, creating recipes, writing articles, shooting photos, and a little bit of everything else! He is also a champion BBQ pitmaster, a leading outdoor cooking content creator, and BBQ personality.
With a passion for all things barbecue and grilling, Cantwell was named one of the “10 Faces of Memphis Barbecue” by Memphis Magazine in May 2015 and was the winner of the Travel Channel’s “American Grilled” nationwide cooking competition series. He is the Editor of his own blog, Grillocracy.com and comes to us from Kingsford.com where he served as editor for several years. He is also a special contributor to TheDailyMeal.com, and has recurring segments on both CNN’s HLN, and WREG-TV. He is also the pitmaster of Smoke in da Eye competition barbecue and grilling team.
From his childhood in Texas to several years spent in Kansas City, Wisconsin, New Orleans, and New York, Cantwell’s passion for barbecue and grilling runs deep as he travels the country in search of the people, places, and tastes that define our shared grilling culture.
He lives just outside of Memphis along with his wife, three children, and Charcoal the dog, sharing his grilling ideas, experiences, recipes, tips, techniques, and more. You can follow him here:
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.
Post comments and questions below
1) Please try the search box at the top of every page before you ask for help.
2) Try to post your question to the appropriate page.
3) Tell us everything we need to know to help such as the type of cooker and thermometer. Dial thermometers are often off by as much as 50°F so if you are not using a good digital thermometer we probably can’t help you with time and temp questions. Please read this article about thermometers.
4) If you are a member of the Pitmaster Club, your comments login is probably different.
5) Posts with links in them may not appear immediately.
Moderators