Muffuletta steak
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Grilled Muffuletta Flank Steak—All the Flavor, all the Temperatures

What happens when you take a classic sandwich and replace the bread with…steak? Nothing bad! Well, not in this case. Because in this case, the classic sandwich is a muffuletta. The classic sandwich of New Orleans, packed with Italian meats, becomes a steak surprisingly well, and we think you should try it! Here we’ll give…

Smoked brisket poutine
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Smoked Brisket Cheesy Fries! Bringing Perfectly-cooked Favorites Together to Make Something Amazing

We are composing this post at the beginning of February, and that means that we’re aiming this recipe at a certain very large football game that is coming up. And while this dish of golden fries, melty-savory cheese curds, rich gravy, and tender smoked brisket is going to be a game-changer for that event (and…

Extra wide candied pork ribs
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Candy-Glazed Wide-Cut Pork Ribs: Recipe and Temps for Meaty Bites

We love ribs and will never tire of trying new ways to prepare them. With Halloween on the horizon, something that is both candy-like and monstrously meaty sounded great, so we decided to smoke up some sticky/shiny extra-wide ribs. Following the lead of Jeff Phillips at smoking-meat.com, we tried this method out, and it was…

Grilled chicken with ThermoPop 2
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Grilled Chicken Breasts: Temperatures for Juicy Meat

When it’s time for dinner, there’s a good chance it’s time for chicken. If you want juicy chicken breasts that are grilled to tasty perfection, you’re going to need to watch their temperature. Chicken breasts dry out with great ease, so keeping them juicy—especially when they’re cooking over hot coals—takes care. In this post, we’ll…

Wagyu burnt ends
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Wagyu Brisket Burnt Ends: Critical Temps for High-end Meat

Do you know what’s better than brisket? American Wagyu brisket! As if the beefy fattiness of brisket weren’t enough, wagyu beef brisket goes ahead and shoots that marbling even more throughout the cut. Yum! With a piece of meat this good—and expensive!—you want to make sure it is cooked to absolute perfection. Now, we’re no…

Hanger steak and fries
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Grilling Hanger Steaks with Tuffy Stone

We had the tremendous good fortune to have BBQ great Tuffy Stone come visit with us and show us his take on classic steak frites—hanger steaks grilled to perfection with crisp potato-wedge fries. Tuffy knows his stuff, and he talks seasoning, meat doneness, oil temps, and the reasons you need a super fast thermometer like…