Does Grilling Cause Cancer?
Are you concerned about the healthfulness of grilling? This article answers the question “Is there a cancer risk in grilling meat?” Find out all about HCAs, PAHs, and the general health aspects of consuming smoked and grilled food.
Mrs. O’Leary’s Cow Crust: The Perfect Beef Dry Rub Recipe
Before hitting the smoker or grill with a steak or other beef cut, take it over the top with this delicious wet rub seasoning paste. Packed with herbs, chiles, and other seasonings then blended with oil, this paste is sure to become your go-to for adding flavor to beef.
The Best Setups For Gas Grills, Maintenance, And Troubleshooting
You can set up a gas grill to get excellent smoke roasted barbecue if you know how. Here’s how gas grills work, the best setups, and how to maintain them.
From Grill to Plate: The Go-To BBQ Turkey Recipe Done Outdoors
Our grilled and smoked turkey recipe and tutorial make your ordinary holiday meal extraordinary! Here’s everything you need to know about making the ultimate holiday bird. We also bust some myths, discuss side dishes, and so much more!
Thermometers: How They Work, How To Select Them, and How To Use Them
How to use our comprehensive buying guide and reviews of thermometers for barbecue, for cooking, for food, for the oven, for the grill and for the smoker.
How to Set Up a Charcoal Grill for Smoking or Grilling
Get the most out of your charcoal grill by setting up 2 heat zones, direct and indirect. This set up allows you to add wood chunks to the coals for smoke, to cook low and slow barbecued ribs and pork shoulder, and to better control your temperature. It also helps prevent flareups and burnt food!
Grilled Capicola Pizza, Delivery Pizza’s Worst Nightmare
Grilled pizza comes close to the brick oven style pizza we all love but without the cost of installing a brick oven. Here is a rustic grilled pizza recipe that features Capicola, a traditional cured and lightly smoked pork product from Naples, related to bacon, and some good examples are made in the US and Canada.
How to Calibrate Your Grill or Smoker with Dry Runs
Calibrate your cooker. There is often dust and grease under the hood from the factory on new grills and smokers. Here’s how to prepare your cooker with a dry run so you can control its temperature when it’s showtime.
How to Smoke Turkey on a Charcoal Grill
Turkey is probably the most difficult meat to cook because you need to cook it to a higher temp than almost any other meat to make it safe, and if you overshoot by as little as 5°F, you go from juicy and giving thanks, to cardboard. Here’s how to set up your charcoal grill for smoking an amazing turkey.
How to Grill and Smoke in Cold Weather
Learn some nifty tricks for insulating and protecting your cooker so you can beat the cold, rain, snow, and wind. These handy tips will keep you grilling and smoking successfully on any cooker, at any time, in any weather.
Indoor Ribs Recipe
Here’s how to make ribs in your oven that most folks will think you nursed for hours in the smoker. Just because you don’t have a smoker or a grill or are waiting out a blizzard doesn’t mean that you can’t make tender, juicy ribs indoors with a flavor that might fool you into thinking it was cooked outdoors. This recipe shows you how.
Myth: Soaking Wood For Smoking
There is no need to soak wood before cooking with it. Water doesn’t penetrate wood. That’s why they make boats from it! Discover the science behind wood combustion, smoke, and the best way to use chips, chunks and logs for smoking and grilling with wood.
How To Use Drip Pans And Water Pans In Your Smoker Or Grill
What is the difference between a drip pan and a water pan? And why do I need some humidity when I make barbecue in the first place? Find out here along with tips on indirect grilling and an answer to the question: What should I put in my water pan on my grill or smoker? Hint: It’s not wine, beer, or juice.
Big Bob Gibson’s Bama Birds With White BBQ Sauce Recipe
Packed full of flavor, this recipe for Alabama white BBQ sauce is the perfect addition to grilled and smoked chicken. Adapted from the original white BBQ sauce that was created by famed Big Bob Gibson Bar-B-Que in Decatur, Alabama, this isn’t your ordinary sticky sweet BBQ sauce as it relies on mayonnaise and vinegar.
What Is Barbecue?
Barbecue is a hotly debated topic. Read here about a new definition of BBQ that is distinct from its legal definition. This new definition includes explanations of grilling, smoking and other terms, as well as a brief history of barbecue around the world.