BBQ Blog

Thanksgiving is a big day when it comes to turkey, veggies, potatoes, and family. Do you know what else happens at these big meals? Culinary disasters.

Did you know that you can prepare your entire Thanksgiving dinner on the grill? Enjoy the open sky and fresh Autumn air while cooking up healthy and filling recipes that will wow your guests.

In keeping with this centuries-old tradition, preparing a holiday feast tends to include a turkey. By following these tips for a perfect turkey, you will be on track to be the best host or hostess your family has ever had. How much turkey do you need per person?

While you can gauge the relative tenderness of your beef or steak by the USDA and Canadian grading system, it doesn’t guarantee a perfect meal. Each cut needs to be combined with the ideal technique for cooking said meat if you want to reach epic levels of deliciousness.

All around the world, Oktoberfest brings to mind mainly two things: festivities and beer. But Oktoberfest isn’t all about going to festivals.

Labor Day signifies that the end of summer. For this reason, the long weekend is typically spent reveling in delicious end-of-season barbecues, pool parties, and camping.

There are plenty of reasons to love summer. Along with the added sunshine comes the inspiration to spend time with friends and family in the great outdoors. Summer wouldn’t be proper without a backyard barbeque or two!

Whatever the occasion, pizza is one of the most well-loved dishes in the world. In the United States alone, more than 40 percent of people eat pizza on a weekly basis!

For many, food isn’t just fuel. Food is a way of life, full of family and memorable moments. Eating spicy foods is fundamental in many cultures, but why do people like spicy food?

Celebrating patriotism, independence, and freedom with close friends and family, over grilled dishes, is a time-honored tradition that many of us look forward to every year.

Hamburgers have been a staple in family BBQs for a long time - whether it’s at a backyard BBQ, a picnic, or a camping trip. Just look back at your very first BBQ and, most likely, hamburgers were part of the menu.

As Mother’s Day is fast approaching, we’re all looking for a special way to surprise the wonderful women in our lives. One of the best ways you can show love this year is to put together a delicious meal in their honor.

There’s just something about grilled shrimp skewers - it instantly adds sophistication to any BBQ party or meal. Just imagine the mouth-watering, red-orange splash of color coming from grilled skewered jumbo shrimp. Yum!

Pork chops are an easy and delicious meal to make, made even more so when you use the grill. Use these fun and easy tips, tricks, and techniques to make the most out of your pork chops.

If you haven’t tried a double-smoked brisket point, can you even call yourself a pitmaster? A grilling enthusiast? Actually yes, you can, but still. What are Double Smoked Brisket Points anyway? Why do we love them so?

There’s nothing more delicious than a flawlessly BBQ grilled steak. Luckily, learning how to BBQ steak perfectly isn’t rocket science. Grilling steak is, in fact, one of the easiest and most enjoyable ways to treat your family to the ultimate al fresco dining experience.

If you love having backyard barbeques with friends and family, then a meal of grilled salmon should be on your list. It’s healthy, nutritious, versatile, and super easy to make!

Steak is something that many are passionate about. Dry-aged steak requires another level of that passion altogether. There is a lot of care and work that goes into the production of a dry-aged steak. How does one buy a dry-aged steak? How do you properly grill it?

We talk a lot about steak. As a barbecue company, why wouldn’t we? Steak is one of the best things you can make on a barbecue. It’s what comes to mind when you think of barbecuing a delicious meal.

Whether the goal is to add extra flavor to your meal to create tender meat from a tough cut, marinating is one of the most used techniques to achieve that goal. Find out how to make the best homemade marinades and the most fitting ways to use them.

One’s opinions about barbecue can be as hotly debated as politics are. That is once again proven true as I look into wet and dry rubs, and when to use which one. Not only is the terminology hotly debated, but so is when and where to use both!

As you already know from many of my Science of Barbecue articles smoking meat is a technique that slowly melts fat and relaxes the collagen in meat allowing water into the muscle fibers creating gelatin.

If you are a barbecue enthusiast, you probably love that smoky char taste. Adding smoke to your meals and using a smoker would seem like a natural next step if you haven’t already gotten your hands on a smoker.

We can all agree that ribs are possibly one of the best meals that you can make on your grill or smoker.