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Traeger wants to make you a ‘smarter’ griller this summer with their new Timberline grills

By Michael Strange / April 3, 2017 April 3, 2017 / News / Cooking, Grilling, Home and Kitchen, Outdoor Gear / Leave a Comment

The weather is warming up and that means sun, fun and grilling season. This year Traeger wants to make your grilling and smoking even easier. With their new Timberline 850 and 1300 model grills they’re introducing WiFIRE control. With WiFIRE you can control your Timberline grill from your phone. So you can adjust your grill …

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Light up the meats with Grillight

By Julie Strietelmeier / July 15, 2016 July 15, 2016 / News / Cooking, Grilling, Home and Kitchen, Outdoor Gear / 2 Comments

BBQ masters with nocturnal grilling tendencies will no longer need to juggle a flashlight in one hand while flipping burgers with the other if they use the Grillight Grilling Spatula. Made of restaurant grade stainless steel, this two-in-one meat flipper is also a flashlight too. It features a bright high powered LED in the handle …

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What’s a barbecue without bacon for the burgers?

By Janet Cloninger / June 30, 2015 June 30, 2015 / News / Cooking, Grilling, Home and Kitchen, Outdoor Gear / 4 Comments

With the Stainless Steel Bacon Grilling Rack, you can cook some crispy bacon for your burgers right on the grill. The rack is made of 430 stainless steel and measures 4.88″ x 10.79″ x 5.63″. It’s big enough to hold 4-6 slices of bacon (you may need a couple if everyone wants bacon), and it cooks the …

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BBQ Dragon review

By Liz Rodriguez / December 15, 2014 August 12, 2015 / Reviews / Cooking, Grilling, Outdoor Gear / 1 Comment

To me, nothing is better than freshly grilled meat and veggies at home during the warm (and cold) months. My boyfriend and I struggle to get our barbecue coals hot quickly using various tools, and have to wait well over 45 minutes for the coals to be ready. I recently got the chance to review the BBQ …

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It’s easy to score with Hat Trick BBQ tools

By Larry Geisz / June 21, 2014 June 21, 2014 / News / Cooking, Grilling, Home and Kitchen, Outdoor Gear / Leave a Comment

Hockey season is over and you’re jonesing for some stick time, but the temperature outside could melt steel let alone your backyard ice rink. Hat Trick BBQ has the solution to get that stick back in your hands, or at least part of a hockey stick. Hat Trick BBQ has come up with a concept …

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You’ll be ready for a cookout anywhere with this portable grill

By Janet Cloninger / June 10, 2014 June 9, 2014 / News / Camping, Grilling, Outdoor Gear / 1 Comment

Summer’s here, and it’s time for camping, tailgating, and picnicking. If you want to cook your food at your destination, you’ll have to hope there’s some sort of grill there or that open fires are allowed. If you take along the Cookout Crusader Portable Grill, you won’t worry about the cooking situation. The stainless steel …

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Serious about grilling? The Airlighter will have charcoal ready in 5 mins without lighter fluid

By Julie Strietelmeier / May 6, 2014 May 6, 2014 / News / Camping, Grilling, Home and Kitchen, Outdoor Gear, Outdoors / 3 Comments

Winter is gone and that means it’s time to get outdoors and fire up the grill for some burgers and hotdogs. I’m not sure about you, but it always makes me a little queasy when I have to squirt lighter fluid on charcoal. I know most of it burns away once the charcoal comes up …

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iDevices iGrillmini review

By Dave Rees / March 26, 2014 March 26, 2014 / Reviews / Bluetooth, Cooking, Grilling, Home and Kitchen, iOS, Outdoor Gear / 7 Comments

The Gadgeteer Kid and I are huge carnivores, as are many of our friends and family members. We barbecue year-round, especially during the summer months. As many of you aficionados of the grill know, cooking everyone’s meal to perfection can be a challenge. Well, the folks at iDevices have recently introduced the iGrillmini, a smaller, …

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Get ready for grilling season with the Grillbot

By Janet Cloninger / March 20, 2014 March 19, 2014 / News / Grilling, Home and Kitchen / 3 Comments

There are robots to clean your floors and robots to clean your windows, so why can’t a robot clean your grill? Get a Grillbot, and a robot will use three powerful electric motors and three brass or stainless steel brushes to scrub your grill clean as a whistle. You don’t have to do anything other …

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Propellant-free briquettes burn hotter and cleaner than normal charcoal

By Janet Cloninger / June 28, 2013 June 28, 2013 / News / Grilling, Home and Kitchen / 3 Comments

If you like cooking outdoors on a grill but don’t like the chemical aftertaste in your food, you’ll be interested in the Afire Koko Coconut Charcoal from Williams-Sonoma. Afire makes this charcoal from renewable coconut shells (left overs from other coconut uses) with no added propellants or other chemicals, fillers, glues, or nitrates. The hole in …

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Speed up your grilling with the BBQ Dragon

By Ryan Chapman / May 5, 2013 May 5, 2013 / News / Crowdfunded, Grilling, Outdoor Gear / 7 Comments

One of the perks of a charcoal grill is the charred taste that comes from the searing heat of the coals. The most annoying part of a charcoal grill is waiting for the coals to heat up. With the BBQ Dragon, your wait time is reduced to a mere ten minutes. The BBQ Dragon clips …

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m.iGrill Portable Tabletop Gas Grill with Speakers

By Janet Cloninger / June 4, 2012 June 4, 2012 / News / Audio, Video, TV, Grilling, Outdoor Gear / 1 Comment

The m.iGrill from Brookstone not only cooks your burgers, it also cranks your tunes. The m.iGrill has 160 square inches of cooking surface, and it produces 8,500 BTUs of cooking power from a 1 lb. disposable propane container. The cooking surface and drip pan are dishwasher safe. The base has a couple of speakers that …

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Carson Portable Rotisserie Grill

By Janet Cloninger / November 23, 2011 November 23, 2011 / News / Grilling, Outdoor Gear / 1 Comment

SolidWorks is a 3D CAD software package used in business and education to design and prototype products. Many cool and useful products have been developed using SolidWorks, and they wanted us to know about some of them, including the Carson Portable Rotisserie Grill. (See their full press release for other products, including the Zoku Quick …

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Cook a Perfect Burger with an iPhone

By Julie Strietelmeier / December 17, 2010 December 7, 2012 / Uncategorized / Bluetooth, Grilling, Home and Kitchen, iOS, iPhone, Spotlight Gadgets / Leave a Comment

Just when you thought you’d seen everything, comes a wireless cooking thermometer for your iPhone. Wazzat? The iGrill is Bluetooth temperature module that can pair with your iPhone, iPad or iPod touch. Using the free grilling application, you can check on the temperature of the meat grilling out on your patio, while you’re indoors but …

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Charcoal Companion Steak Station Review

By Steve Holt / July 4, 2010 December 7, 2012 / Reviews / Cooking, Grilling, Home and Kitchen, Outdoor Gear / 4 Comments

The Charcoal Companion Steak Station was designed to make your time at the grill more productive and relaxing by letting the Steak Station keep track of the meat temperature while you relax and enjoy your beer. So does it work? How does it compare to those digital meat thermometer forks that we have all used …

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