Writing this blog is a hoot!
Every once in a while someone on Twitter or Facebook will ask a question or post a comment and it triggers something in my brain. It’s just something that happens. I’m minding my own business and all of a sudden I’m thinking about something different. A couple of days a go someone on Twitter sent out a tweet about pulled pork and a little while later there was a mention of waffles. It was lunch time here in Northern California and the Pulled Pork and Waffle Sliders just popped into my head.
Continue reading Pulled Pork and Waffle Sliders with Maple Chipotle BBQ Sauce
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 When Ed’s RoadhousE asked me try their steak sauce I said I would. I’m not really sure what possessed me to agree to it because I’m not a steak sauce user. My thought on steak sauce is that if my steak needs a sauce to make it taste good/better then you either cooked it poorly or it was a lousy steak to begin with. Good meat doesn’t need sauce. Maybe a nice compound butter on my steak, but never, ever steak sauce. I’m pretty consistent on this. I don’t use much BBQ sauce on my smoked meats. A nice light glazing of ribs is perfect for me.
Then there’s the “hot sauce” aspect. I love food with a little heat. A “little heat” is a subjective term but I like foods with more heat than the average person. But I don’t like products with heat, for heat’s sake. It’s got to have flavor, and I don’t want something so hot it ruins my taste buds for the whole meal. So, what in the world was I doing to agreeing to review a product called “Devil’s Tongue?” Chances were I wasn’t going to like it.
I know a lot of hot sauce fans like the burn. I don’t. I like to work up a nice forehead sweat and even once in awhile a meal that requires a towel to wipe my whole head is a good thing. But that’s about it. When the “Devil’s Tongue” arrived I did what I always do with a new sauce. I got a spoon out and tasted it. Normally, this is with BBQ sauce. Fortunately I had enough common sense to to not eat a whole spoonful. This stuff is hot. So hot (at least in my book) that I decided to not even bother trying it on the nice ribeye I had ready for the grill.
After my steak was grilled, rested and about ready for consumption I heard a little voice saying “you’ve got to try me on the steak. Go ahead…you know you want to.” Was I being tempted by the “Devil’s Tongue?” I quickly finished getting my baked potato ready and was anticipating the joy of a perfectly grilled medium rare steak when I realized the temptation was going to work. I was, in fact, going to give in and eat this stuff on my ribeye.
Continue reading Review: Devil’s Tongue Steak Sauce
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 When your name is Kirk, you love BBQ and you live in Albuquerque, New Mexico it’s only natural you call your company AlbuKirky Seasonings. I get a little chuckle out of it every time I see the logo on the bottle of “Green Chili Rub” Kirk recently sent me to try out. (There’s the legal disclaimer that I got the rub for free) I get a lot of offers to try rubs, seasonings and sauces and most often they don’t end up as reviews on The BBQ Grail. I don’t like to do “negative” reviews so unless I really, really like a product I don’t write about it. So, since I’m writing about the “Green Chile Rub” from AlbuKirky Seasonings I must like it.
Well, “like” is just a little to mild of a term. This seasoning tastes, simply amazing. One of the highlights of my year is when the hatch chiles arrive at the local grocery store. Hatch green chiles are famous for their great flavor and a gentle heat that doesn’t overpower the other ingredients in your dish or your taste buds. This rub captures the flavor profile of the hatch chile perfectly and then compliments it with a little garlic, black pepper and a few other spices.
Honestly, calling this a “rub” limits the uses of this product. At my house it’s going to become “Green Chile Seasonal-All.” I used the seasoning the first time on some grilled chicken. If I’m being honest I didn’t want to risk the pork ribs or pork loin I had on an untested rub. The grilled chicken came out about as perfect as you can get.
Continue reading Review: AlbuKirky Seasonings Green Chile Rub
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Let me get the legal stuff out-of-the-way right up front. I bought my Thermapen with my money over three years ago. The opinions expressed in this post are mine! Thermapen did encourage me to write a review and did offer the free product I’m giving away here. They made the offer without knowing what I was going to write. Now, on with the show…
 The passion that BBQ enthusiasts have for their Thermapens is legendary. Rarely has their been a cooking tool so universally loved. It’s common for users of BBQ forums to spend days and hundreds of posts debating which color is faster, usually this is done all in good fun. There are few cooking tools used indoors or outdoors that are as well-loved as the Thermapen.
For many there is no substitution for a Thermapen. I can, pretty much, sum up how I feel about my Red Super Fast Thermapen–you can have my Thermapen when you pry it out of my cold dead fingers. I have over 13 grills and smokers in my backyard, I use each and every one of them. They all mean a lot to me, but not a single other BBQ tool I have is as valuable to me as my Thermapen.
Time and time again I have read forum comments and questions about thermometers. Usually these questions are centered around what “cheap” thermometer should I buy. There are hundreds and hundreds of imitations along with thousands of cheap thermometers out there. Nothing works like a Thermapen. The speed and accuracy of the Thermapen is unparralleled. With a blazing 3 second reading and + or – of .7 degrees it’s going to get the temperature as fast as necessary.
I’m not a big fan of remote thermometers. My experience is that they don’t work for very long. But I can walk out to my smoker or grill and get a temperature reading in 3 seconds which allows me to close the lid and keep on cooking.
Continue reading Thermapen: The best tool in my BBQ Toolbox! (Win a Thermapen Too!)
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