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Max Good, AmazingRibs.com’s Full-Time Grill Tester
The Camp Chef Woodwind Pellet Grill is comparable in capacity to Traeger's popular Lil' Tex Elite, but much more sophisticated and easy to find for well below its list price. Plus Camp Chef's super hot gas Sear Box solves the searing issue plaguing most pellet cookers.
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Max Good, AmazingRibs.com’s Full-Time Grill Tester
The Traeger Timberline 850 Grill is a technologically advanced wood pellet smoker with a sturdy design and a muscular look and feel unlike anything in their extensive catalog. We tested and reviewed Timberline. You quickly get spoiled using the intuitive smartphone app to control and monitor this AmazingRibs.com Gold Medal Award winner.
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Max Good, AmazingRibs.com’s Full-Time Grill Tester
The Portable Kitchen PK360 takes all the great elements of the classic 1952 PK, improves the design, beefs up construction and delivers one beautiful charcoal grill. We tested and reviewed this classic, versatile charcoal grill and gave it our Best Value AmazingRibs.com Platinum Medal. The rectangular shape makes it a 2-zone king.
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Max Good, AmazingRibs.com’s Full-Time Grill Tester
This Napoleon Rogue R425SIB gas grill is a smaller, slightly stripped down, lower cost version of one of our favorites in Napoleon's more expensive Prestige line. Read our review of this quality gas grill to learn why it receives our AmazingRibs.com Best Value Platinum Medal. We love the infrared sear burner mounted on the left side shelf.
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Max Good, AmazingRibs.com’s Full-Time Grill Tester
The Saber 500 Cast Black Grill is an entry level model to the Saber line of gas grills. Read our review of this super searing machine! Saber's unique design earns our AmazingRibs.com Platinum Medal Award.
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Max Good, AmazingRibs.com’s Full-Time Grill Tester
This luxurious, high quality gravity-feed charcoal smoker for outdoor kitchens wins our AmazingRibs.com Platinum Medal. We reviewed this incredible smoker. The terms luxury and charcoal smoker rarely appear together and, to the best of our knowledge, Kalamazoo offers the only under counter, stainless steel outdoor kitchen cabinet smoker on the market,
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Max Good, AmazingRibs.com’s Full-Time Grill Tester
The American Muscle Grill 36" is a unique, luxury gas grill that looks and cooks like a high performance hot rod. We testing and reviewed this super charged beast and gave it our Gold Medal Award. Find out why tough guys like Sylvester Stallone are in hog heaven cooking on AMG!
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Max Good, AmazingRibs.com’s Full-Time Grill Tester
The Barrel House Cooker makes an 18 inch diameter UDS that very closely resembles Pit Barrel Cooker, a company we admire very much. Indeed, Pit Barrel took legal action against Barrel House. Read our review. In a settlement, the owners of Pit Barrel received a lump sum and acquired Barrel House.
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Bill McGrath, AmazingRibs.com Chief Thermometer Reviewer
Read our review of the ET-736, Maverick’s latest entry into the remote thermometer market, and follows the very successful ET-732 and ET-733 wireless models. This unit falls short in terms of performance and features, and we do not recommend it.
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Max Good, AmazingRibs.com’s Full-Time Grill Tester
Genesis has been one of the most popular grills in the USA. We reviewed the Weber Genesis II E-310 featuring Weber's new GS4 grilling system, consisting of their Infiniti Ignition with an impressive ten year warranty, tapered-quadrangle shaped burners to replace tube burners and earns our AmazingRibs.com Gold Medal.
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Meathead, AmazingRibs.com Founder And BBQ Hall of Famer
FireBoard has set a new standard in food thermometry. It is a remote read, cloud connected, data logger, with connections for up to six probes. It can communicate with a smart phone via Bluetooth and Wi-Fi to monitor the temps of both cooker and food. The FireBoard FBX11 received our top rating for its full feature set and performance.
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Max Good, AmazingRibs.com’s Full-Time Grill Tester
We tested and reviewed Red Box and awarded our AmazingRibs.com Silver Medal. A similar version of this portable charcoal smoker was previously offered by the venerable Backwoods Smokers as their Patio model. Since the 1980s Backwoods has made top quality smokers for home, catering and competition.
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Bill McGrath, AmazingRibs.com Chief Thermometer Reviewer
Read our review of these replacement probes for the Maverick ET-732/733.
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Meathead, AmazingRibs.com Founder And BBQ Hall of Famer
The ThermoWorks "Smoke," is a two-channel, in-food/in-oven, wireless remote thermometer that is well made, easy to use, and performs very well. It has a transmitter attached to two probes and a remote receiver that you can put in your pocket. It can be operated over the Internet using the Gateway. A solid top rating!
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Meathead, AmazingRibs.com Founder And BBQ Hall of Famer
Pizza Party is a very good wood burning pizza oven that is relatively inexpensive and easy to assemble. We tested and reviewed this versatile oven and awarded it our AmazingRibs.com Gold Medal. It has a dome that is high quality stainless steel inside and a painted aluminum exterior with a ceramic fabric insulation.
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