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Oklahoma Joe’s

In the late 1980s Oklahoma Joe began producing award winning, traditional, 1/4″ offset smokers. The company was purchased by Char-Broil in 1998 and went through a series of twists and turns for decades. For many years the name “Oklahoma Joe” appeared on super cheap Char-Broil smokers. Recently Oklahoma Joe has recaptured a degree of their […]

Otto Wilde Grillers GmbH

Otto Wilde is a family owned business based in Dusseldorf, Germany. Named after the family patriarch, Otto Wilde produced the first prototypes of their steak searing, infrared salamander grill in 2015. A successful Kickstarter campaign followed in 2016 and now their Otto Grill is sold in Europe, Australia and the USA. They are expanding their […]

Breville

Founded in Sydney in 1932, Breville has become an iconic global brand that enhances people’s lives through thoughtful design and brilliant innovation, delivering kitchen products to more than 70 countries around the globe. Breville is the kitchen appliance brand that delivers innovation based on consumer insights, empowering people’s potential to do things more impressively or […]

Hunsaker Vortex Smokers

Hunsaker Vortex Smokers is a family owned business offering unique Upright Barrel Smokers, made by a competition smokers for competition smokers. At the heart of Hunsaker’s design is their Vortex Charcoal Basket which is meant to provide even heat and reduce hot spots. The Vortex Charcoal basket may be purchased separately for use in other […]

Mallmann’s Grill by Best Made Company

Best Made Company is a unique, upscale outfit with retail stores in New York and Los Angeles. They carry an unusual mix of ritzy camping and outdoor lifestyle products including clothing, axes, knives, kitchen utensils, books, and fishing and archery gear. Argentinian celebrity chef, Francis Mallmann, is a creative adviser to Best Made. Together they […]

Hestan Commercial Corporation

Hestan makes a family of high quality luxury products ranging from grills and everything for the outdoor kitchen, to commercial indoor ovens and stoves endorsed by Chef Thomas Keller, to titanium cookware also endorsed by celebrity chefs, refrigerators, exhaust fans, and even award winning Napa Valley wines.

Ooni (formerly Uuni)

Ooni is a European company started in 2012 under the name Uuni with the premise of, “making the world’s first portable wood-fired pizza oven.” They kicked it off with 142 Kickstarter supporters and have since grown to a global enterprise. Ooni currently offers two models and some pizza making accessories. In 2018 they changed the […]

GoBQ Grills

Chicago’s own Eric Goeken and Todd Zaroban concocted GoBQ Grills. A unique concept for an extremely portable charcoal grill made of silicone fabric and flexible parts that roll up and snap shut. After a successful crowd funding campaign, they jumped into the portable grill market with their one of a kind cooker.

 

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