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Dave Joachim, AmazingRibs.com Contributing Author

David Joachim is an AmazingRibs.com Contributing Author and Product Tester. Dave has authored, edited, or collaborated on more than 45 cookbooks, four of them on barbecue and grilling, and his Food Science column has appeared in "Fine Cooking" magazine since 2011.

Greg Rempe, AmazingRibs.com Multi-Media Content Contributor

Greg Rempe is an AmazingRibs.com Multi-Media Content Contributor and well-known internet radio personality. Greg hosts the weekly internet radio talk show, "The BBQ Central Show," a program dedicated to the barbecue and grilling industry.

Paul Sidoriak, AmazingRibs.com Contributing Author

Paul Sidoriak is an AmazingRibs.com Content Contributor and is a leading BBQ, grilling, outdoor griddling, and pizza cookbook author.

Brigit Binns, AmazingRibs.com Culinary Content Contributor

Brigit Binns is an AmazingRibs.com Culinary Content Contributor and co-author of Meathead's She is is the author of more than two dozen cookbooks, many for Williams-Sonoma.

Clint Cantwell, AmazingRibs.com President And BBQ Personality

Clint Cantwell is AmazingRibs.com's President, a championship competition BBQ cook, and outdoor cooking personality.

Big Jim Maivald, Former AmazingRibs.com CTO

Big Jim was AmazingRibs.com's CTO prior to his passing in 2023. He was a graphic designer with over 30 years of experience working with graphic design, web design and office productivity software.

Max Good, AmazingRibs.com’s Full-Time Grill Tester

Max Good, AmazingRibs.com's Vice President of Product Reviews & Keeper of the Flame, is the world's only full-time reviewer of outdoor cooking equipment including smokers, grills, pizza ovens, griddles, and more.

Meathead, AmazingRibs.com Founder And BBQ Hall of Famer

Founder and publisher of AmazingRibs.com, Meathead is known as the site's Hedonism Evangelist and BBQ Whisperer. He is also the author of the New York Times Best Seller "Meathead, The Science of Great Barbecue and Grilling", and is a BBQ Hall Of Fame inductee.

John “Spinaker” Bowlsby

Spinaker is one of the moderators of the Pitmaster forum. His BBQ journey started on the deck with his father. His dad loved to cook burgers and steaks on the grill for him and his three brothers, but never really did any low and slow. As he grew up, he started cooking more and more and fell in love with BBQ.

Jerod Broussard

Jerod Broussard is a maestro of the drum smoker and Texas barbecue in general. Born and raised in Southwest Louisiana on a rice farm, Jerod earned a Bachelor’s degree in Animal Science and moved to Texas where he has been a food inspector since 2002. Don’t be shy with your questions regarding chicken, Jerod inspects […]

Huskee, AmazingRIbs.com’s Pitmaster Club Head Moderator

Aaron "Huskee" Lyons is the lead moderator for AmazingRibs.com's Pitmaster Club and Comments Moderator on our public site. Born and raised in central Michigan, so he calls it "pop" not soda. His dad loved making burgers and chicken on the gas grill, and thus began his love of all things barbecue.

 

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