On July 4th, 2009 I had the opportunity to meet Bob and Kerrie Tucker at the “Way Out West BBQ Championship” in Stockton, California. They were cooking with The Smokin’ Yankees Competition BBQ Team and were debuting their new MAK Grill 2 Star General pellet fired grill/smoker. It didn’t take but a couple seconds of seeing this grill in action to know that I wanted to test it out for a review. The grill was a prototype and wasn’t quite ready for release so I had to wait almost seven months before I got my hands on it.
On their website Bob and Kerrie tell their story. “We love to grill and have a passion for barbequing. We’d been using a propane gas grill for years and didn’t like way it dried out our food,and charcoal grilling was inconsistent. The meat was often still raw in the middle and that didn’t go down so well with our guests! We dreamt of cooking with wood like hickory – but couldn’t find a grill that was convenient to use. We also wanted to have better control of the cooking environment to get perfect results every time.”
