BBQ Tropical

July 29, 2011

Island or tropical BBQ is one of the most exciting varieties of grilled food found around the world, and it is easy to replicate. As the late summer heat kicks in, surely even the most passionate grillers are getting tired of the heat. Island grilling breaks into two categories; the fresh and fast and the [...]

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BBQ Championship

July 28, 2011

The annual Canadian BBQ Championship provides a great opportunity to talk about what exactly it takes to make a great BBQ.  This year over 40 teams are going to duke it out for the professional title of Canada’s best BBQ crew, not to mention bragging rights.  The teams BBQ will be graded on tenderness look [...]

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Independance Day BBQ

July 1, 2011

Easily the most important holiday to BBQ to most of America, Independence Day is approaching quite fast and preparations need to be made for anyone hosting their own 4th party.  Some good things to prepare for other than the obvious, food; are the large number of people that can show up to these, possible fireworks [...]

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Grill Chicken Right

June 30, 2011

 A great healthy dish that is popular in the summer is simple grilled chicken, but there are actually quite a few problems that can happen when making grilled chicken. Luckily making the perfect grilled chicken is actually very easy with a couple more steps in the cooking process. The first thing to do with making [...]

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Indirect Seasoning

June 29, 2011

                There is a way to season meat and vegetables on the BBQ without adding them to the food directly; add them to the smoke in the grill.  Just like with using wood chips in foil to flavor slow cooked meat, it is just as easy to apply the technique to flavor things with herbs. [...]

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Light Summer Grillling

June 23, 2011

Summer is about grilling and the heat, heat that makes most people more likely to enjoy a lighter meal than they would in the winter. This should be taken into account when grilling, because some meats like to swim in sauce, but many summer favorites can go almost bare. Master these naturally great summer quick [...]

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Season a New Grill

June 22, 2011

A grill needs to be taken care of if it is going to properly prepare food, stay contaminant free and last for a long time. This process of prepping a grill for use includes seasoning and calibrating because smokers and grills do not have a temperature gauge. Basically they are outdoor ovens with no temperature [...]

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Beer Can Chicken

June 17, 2011

There are a lot of names for this great innovative way of preparing a whole chicken. Some call it a beer chicken, others a beer butt chicken; some just call it drunken chicken. They all refer to the same thing, a whole chicken made on the grill with a can of beer inside it so [...]

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Personalized BBQ Sauces

June 16, 2011

While it is a great wish to make homemade barbecue sauce, it is often so much easier to simply add to a bought sauce. This is a great cheat actually because there are so many good sauces available in stores. A great example of doctoring a sauce is this Hawaiian style sauce made with only [...]

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Kansas City BBQ

June 15, 2011

There are a few cities and areas in America that just took to BBQ like a fish to water and now have a sort of barbecue identity, completely different from other regions.  One of these places with a BBQ calling card is Kansas City, the only slightly disputed barbecue capital. BBQ is to this town [...]

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