Welcome to AmazingRibs.com. Check out Meathead's new book!
AmazingRibs.com is supported by our Pitmaster Club. Also, when you buy with links on our site we may earn a finder’s fee. Click to see how we test and review products.

Ruminations From Meathead (10 Articles) (cont'd)

Remembering BBQ Legend Mike Mills

By:

Meathead, AmazingRibs.com Founder And BBQ Hall of Famer

Barbecue Hall of Famer Mike Mills died Tuesday morning December 29, 2020 due to issues unrelated to COVID. I first met Mike and his daughter Amy in October 2005 at the Jack Daniels World Championship Invitational Barbecue. He was introduced to me as “The Legend.” And he truly is.

2008-07-22 Just Stay Home

By:

Meathead, AmazingRibs.com Founder And BBQ Hall of Famer

So the City of Chicago has demanded that the actors in hit musical Jersey Boys stop smoking on stage.

Farm to Table

By:

Christopher Kimball, AmazingRibs.com Content Contributor

Farm to table is a buzzword phrase these days. Check out food writer Christopher Kimball's unique take on the term, with the emphasis on farm.

Hypocrisy By Epicurious

By:

Meathead, AmazingRibs.com Founder And BBQ Hall of Famer

The cooking website Epicurious.com, is not publishing any new recipes using beef out of concern for sustainability. This is bullpoop. Find out why.

Temperature Guide

Meat Temperature Guide

Anthony Bourdain, A Tribute

By:

Meathead, AmazingRibs.com Founder And BBQ Hall of Famer

A fan's remembrance of and tribute to Anthony Bourdain.

Sun Wah Chinese Barbecue Wins Beard Award

By:

Meathead, AmazingRibs.com Founder And BBQ Hall of Famer

Sun Wah Chinese Barbecue Restaurant has been an Uptown Chicago destination since 1987 and in 2018 was given an America's Classic Award by the James Beard Foundation.

2017-05-06 Remembering Josh Ozersky

By:

Meathead, AmazingRibs.com Founder And BBQ Hall of Famer

Josh Ozersky and I were good friends, not surprising considering out mutual love of meat and Liebling.

Let’s Fight Back Against The War On Thanksgiving

By:

Meathead, AmazingRibs.com Founder And BBQ Hall of Famer

The war is not on Christmas, the war is on Thanksgiving. Fight back!

2008-11-15 Culinary Trends In Italy

Trends in Italian Cooking

2011-05-28 New USDA Cooking Temps Oversimplify, Change Little, and Mindboggle Chefs

By:

Meathead, AmazingRibs.com Founder And BBQ Hall of Famer

The new USDA cooking temperature regulations change little other than pork and they are still out of touch with reality.

2009-03-25 My Ride In The Wienermobile

By:

Meathead, AmazingRibs.com Founder And BBQ Hall of Famer

Meathead's ride in the Oscar Mayer Wienermobile with pictures.

2008-07-07 Ending the Email Lies

By:

Meathead, AmazingRibs.com Founder And BBQ Hall of Famer

I don't know why otherwise intelligent people are duped by email hoaxes and why they broadcast them to everyone they know.

Related articles

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

grouchy?

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.

Click to comment or ask a question...