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Huskee, AmazingRibs.com’s Pitmaster Club Head Moderator
Masterbuilt’s 40-inch Digital Charcoal Smoker marries technology, convenience, and affordability without sacrificing authentic charcoal and wood flavor. With a high-capacity vertical orientation, superior temperature control, and hands-off ease of use, it offers a lot of conveniences and genuine smoke flavor for your dollar.
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Meathead, AmazingRibs.com Founder And BBQ Hall of Famer
Brigit Binns, AmazingRibs.com Culinary Content Contributor
Create the best turkey of your life and side dishes for Thanksgiving (or basically any time of the year) with this downloadable e-book containing countless recipes, tips, and techniques.
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Dave Joachim, AmazingRibs.com Editorial Director
The Ñuke Puma is a Santa Maria style grill made by hand in Argentina. It burns wood or charcoal and the removable V-shaped grill grates are adjustable from 4 to 23 inches above the coals with Puma's signature crank wheel. This stylish entry into the premium Santa Maria and gaucho grill market also has a front door lined with fire brick and comes with a rolling cart, fire poker, shovel, and enameled cast iron griddle. Read our complete review of this Gold Medal winning grill.
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Max Good, AmazingRibs.com’s Full-Time Grill Tester
Just when we thought we’d seen everything in the world of kamados, Kalamazoo unveils their striking Shokunin Kamado Grill. Kalamazoo occupies a rarefied space in the BBQ cosmos with some of the best grills money can buy, and you'll need a lot of money to buy one. They can cost as much as a car! We give this unique, ultra-luxury kamado our AmazingRibs.com Platinum Medal. Read our review to learn why.
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Meathead, AmazingRibs.com Founder And BBQ Hall of Famer
The new Hasty Bake Gourmet PRO 258 is an upgraded version of their Gourmet 256. We have never tested and reviewed a finer charcoal grill. Hasty Bake easily earns our Best Value AmazingRibs.com Platinum Medal. There is nothing you can't do with this grill and it deserves a place in the back yard of every serious outdoor cook. It is the Swiss Army knife of grills.
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Dave Joachim, AmazingRibs.com Editorial Director
The Green Mountain Grills Ledge Pellet Smoker might be the pellet cooker to show you the pleasures of these machines. It's their most popular model, a mid-size, mid-priced smoker with WiFi, a robust smartphone app, solid all-around performance, and more extras than most in its price range. Read our full review!
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Max Good, AmazingRibs.com’s Full-Time Grill Tester
Iconic Weber Kettles are some of the most popular and respected backyard grills in the world. Those who've mastered a kettle can do everything on it from grill a steak to bake a cake and these Summit Kamados are kettles on steroids. If you like your Weber Kettle, you'll love their Kamados. We give these Weber Summit Kamado Charcoal Grills our AmazingRibs.com Best Value Platinum Medals!
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Bill McGrath, AmazingRibs.com Chief Thermometer Reviewer
The ChefsTemp Finaltouch X10 is a new instant read thermometer with solid construction, accuracy, response time, and water resistance. Read our complete review.
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Max Good, AmazingRibs.com’s Full-Time Grill Tester
The Weber Genesis II SX-335 three burner with sear burner and side burner is, at its core, a wonderful gas grill and an early entry to the Smart Gas Grill market.
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John “Spinaker” Bowlsby
The Z Grills 450B is part of their Basic Series and, true to the name, it is a straightforward, no frills, mid-size pellet smoker. This generic model looks like many other value priced pellet smokers and has similar features and performance. It competes with lower priced models from Camp Chef and Pit Boss and is worth a look if you're on a tight budget. Read our review to learn why it gets our Best Value Silver Medal.
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Bill McGrath, AmazingRibs.com Chief Thermometer Reviewer
Read our full review of the new ThermoPro TP-620 instant read thermometer that has all the bells and whistles to make a cook's job easier.
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Max Good, AmazingRibs.com’s Full-Time Grill Tester
Big commercial smokers like the Ole Hickory EL-EDX are made for the high output needs of restaurants and caterers. Pitmasters around the country swear by them. Read our review to find out why.
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Clint Cantwell, AmazingRibs.com President And BBQ Personality
Keep safely distanced from the heat of your grill when adding, turning, and removing food thanks to the extra length of this set of tongs and spatula. The OXO Good Grips Spatula and Tongs are dishwasher safe.
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Max Good, AmazingRibs.com’s Full-Time Grill Tester
We've always loved the PK Original and now that the family is growing, there's even more to love. PK's quest to build a better mousetrap has proven successful so far and appears to be gaining momentum. Their approach has been logical and elegant in equal parts.
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Bill McGrath, AmazingRibs.com Chief Thermometer Reviewer
Read our complete review of the highly popular ThermoWorks Thermapen One instant-read thermometer- the super fast Thermapen ONE - with a one second response time, improved accuracy, and a brighter backlight.
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