Barbecue Grills
The World’s Largest BBQ?
Adventure Alliance in Georgetown, Texas owns and operates what they claim is The Ultimate Smoker and Grill. The grill is the size of a tanker trunk and hauled by a semi. It is 55 feet long and can cook 2000 pounds of barbecue, 200 steaks, or 1000 hot dogs at once.
This monster barbecue is available for hire, and is primarily used for coporate events and team building outings. Pepcid launched its newest offering, Pepcid Complete at the New York Stock Exchange by featuring this monster grill. In two hours, they served jalapeno cheese sausage to 13,000 followed up with samples of their new product. Very clever.
Want to hire this monster-trunk-grill for your next cookout? Save your pennies, its $5000 a day for the stop plus $3 for each mile of travel involved. And that doesn’t include the food, which runs $5 a person for hot dogs, up to $25 a person for full blow dinner packages.
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Choo Choo BBQ
Here’s another interesting barbecue pit. This one is shaped like a train. It was spotted out at the Kemah Boardwalk near Houston, Texas. Even the chimney works.
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The Big Green Egg
The Japanese, who brought us the hibachi, have been cooking outside using ceramic pots called kamados for centuries. These early cooking vessels are the ancient origins of an odd looking, but terribly cool barbecue grill called The Big Green Egg.
It’s easy to see how The Big Green Egg got its name, and despite its strange name and appearance, its fanatical users have buying Big Green Eggs since 1974. Big Green Egg owners (Eggheads they call themselves) are so in love with the beast that they even hold their own conventions.
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Woodflame: Wood Burning Portable BBQ Grill
The French-Canadian company Woodflame‘s new wood burning portable barbecue grill designed to make grilling safer and more convenient for boaters, campers, picnicers and tailgaters. No charcoal or propane is required, only a single cube of wood.
To operate the unit, a hardwood cube is place into a combustion chamber inside the grill, then a forced air blower system supplies the fire with a constant supply of oxygen, heating the grill in under two minutes. The grill burns the hardwood so completely and efficiently that only a tiny pinch of ash remains in the grill.
The lightweight units (10 lbs and 17 lbs models) are designed for portability. They fold up into a little bag for easy transport to the beach or wherever your travels may take you. The unit is battery powered, and the efficiency of the hardwood burner means you don’t have to haul a sack of charcoal with you either. Unlike other grills, the forced air heating system means that the sides and bottom of the grill do not get hot. You can even cook on a plastic table cloth.
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The Griller’s Guide to Charcoal Briquets
Many barbecue and grilling aficionados depend on the humble charcoal briquet as their fuel source when firing up the grill. No propane for many an outdoor chef — only charcoal will do. Everyone seems to have their favorite brand of charcoal they like to buy too — Kingsford, MatchLight, Royal Oak. Are they all the same?
How is charcoal made? How much do you really know about the history of charcoal? Do you know how to best store and light your charcoal? How do you know when its ready too cook on. In this article I’ll try to give you the scoop on grilling with charcoal.
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Buying a Barbecue Grill: Gas or Charcoal?
When it comes to buying a grill, the first big decision is choosing between gas and charcoal. Many grilling purists will argue till the cows come home that if you are cooking on gas grill you aren’t really grilling and might as well be using a microwave. I think that’s silly, in this article we’ll consider some of the important difference between the two.
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Summer grilling has become high tech
Lee Adams lusts over a new infrared grill in this article…
It’s the Star grill with infra-red cooking grids at 1,050 degrees that sears the meat to hold in the juices, with a LCD displaying timers and temperature, a meat thermometer, halogen lights, and a grilling surface with chain-drive rotisserie that can hold up to 60 pounds of meat. This baby has 650 square inches of grilling space, a 252 square inch warming rack, infrared searing device that puts out 23,000 BTUs, smoker that puts out 5,000 BTUs, and the rotisserie gets 13,000 BTUs. Now that’s cooking with gas.
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Texas Six Shooter Grill
Joe Wood of Weimar, Texas built this 6 foot-11 custom barbecue pit in his home metal shop. The barrel is 10 feet long and 8 inches in diameter, and the entire rig is over 15 feet long. The pistol’s grips, which cover the firebox, are made of red oak. When cooking, the barrel acts as the grill’s chimney. It took over two years and 1,100 hours to complete, and used more than two tons of red oak, stainless, and carbon steel.
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