by Grillers Gold | Grilling, Holiday
Making Valentine’s Day dinner at home, lovingly handcrafting a very special meal, is about as romantic as it gets. Here are some heartwarming choices for the main dish.
If you want steakhouse style, buy high-quality, thick New York strips, with their beautiful marbling, tenderness, and flavor. Remember not to trim the fat; leaving it on contributes to both taste and moisture. Grill them with care and attention, per Peter Jautaikis, author of The Wood Pellet Smoker & Grill Cookbook. Jautaikis recommends steaks 1-1/4” to 1-1/2” thick, cooked 2 to 3 minutes per side on a grill preheated to 450 degrees.
If you have more time to put into your culinary efforts to celebrate your true love, smoke a flavorful tri-tip roast. Marinate overnight, prep the grill, and plan on cooking 2 hours for a 2 ½-3 lb. roast. It’s another great recipe from Jautaikis.
Now, light the candles, set an especially elegant salad out on the table, make sure the chocolate dessert is ready to serve, and pour two glasses of your favorite red wine.* For the BBQ lover, it’s the perfect occasion.
*Want some suggestions for red wine pairings that are as perfectly suited as you and your mate? For grilled strip steak, a robust wine with the tannins, acidity, and alcohol to cut through the meat’s fat is the ideal; look for Cabernet Sauvignon or Zinfandel, according to the blog at wines.com. And Fiona Beckett’s blog, Matching Food & Wine, enthusiastically recommends a lush, ripe Australian Shiraz with smoked beef.
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by Grillers Gold | Holiday
Barbeque is what happens when the human brain decides to try amazing things with food and fire. Nowadays, we can all enjoy advances in barbecuing with some pretty impressively engineered wood pellet grills. And working in well-designed harmony with those barbecues are cutting-edge accessories. They make perfect gifts for the griller who wants the latest and greatest.
Just in case you haven’t heard, you can shop digitally, too. Like Griller’s Gold Premium BBQ Pellets, these grilling gifts are just a click away on Amazon.
Advanced BBQ Kit
Grilling gloves made of silicon to really, truly protect your hands from heat: check. (One reviewer says “I’ll never use fabric oven gloves again.”) An instant-read digital thermometer that switches between Fahrenheit to Celsius: check. Meat claws that may sound a bit savage, but use precise design and great materials to take the inconvenience and clumsiness out of shredding pork, beef, chicken: check.
Find it here on Amazon
LED Gooseneck Grill Light
Keep cooking outdoors into the evening hours with the right light for grilling. The battery-powered LED light is bright. The long, flexible gooseneck lets you adjust the angle to see what you need on your grill. And oh, that magnetic, heavy aluminum base! It holds firmly, and of course, it’s heat resistant. You can also use the screw clamp to secure the light to either vertical or horizontal surface.
Find it here on Amazon
Meathead: The Science of Great Barbecue and Grilling by Meathead Goldwyn
“Goldwyn, whose day job is running the website amazingribs.com, explores the complexity of heat, meat, and smoke in the first half of his book, with a sense of humor sharper than his nickname suggests and a stack of scientific research provided by physicist Greg Blonder. Then he offers more than 100 recipes to take to the grill…[an] excellent guidebook.” —Publishers Weekly. And yes, it’s available in a digital edition as well as hardcover.
Find it here on Amazon
Check out our guide to all-natural grilling goodies, too. And don’t forget to give yourself the gift of great wood pellet grilling with family, friends, and Griller’s Gold this holiday season. Cheers!
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by Grillers Gold | Holiday
Barbeque is where nature meets human creativity—and appetite. At Griller’s Gold, we start out with an emphasis on nature. There’s only one ingredient in our wood BBQ pellets, and that’s all-natural wood. For this look at great grilling gifts, we’re keeping things natural. There’s nothing like doing what comes naturally.
A Better Bamboo Cutting Board
This bamboo board is a cut above, if you’ll excuse the pun. The extremely useful waste drawer, antimicrobial surface, and overall smart design give it the edge… excuse another pun. Seriously, this is a minimalist piece that’s a major addition to any cook’s kitchen.
Find it on Amazon
Runamok Maple Syrup
BBQ master Steven Raichlen points out that “maple syrup has a surprising affinity for barbecue” and that this artisanal Vermont-based maple syrup producer just rocks. (Shout out to him for this flavor find, and check out Steven’s recipes for Maple-Sriracha Glazed Chicken Drumsticks or Planked Salmon with Maple-Mustard Glaze.) There are smoked, infused, and barrel-aged Runamok varieties, like the one here that’s been aged in rum (yum!) barrels. Try using this in a glaze, brine or barbecue sauce on whatever you’re barbecuing over Griller’s Gold Smokehouse and Fruitwood blends, both of which include maple wood. Layering the flavor makes barbecue better.
Find it on Amazon
Stone Drink Dispenser
The first barbecue cooks were the cooking stars of the Stone Age. This modern-day drink dispenser makes grill-side beverage service epic, with a pretty fantastic use of natural materials. And it’s made by a person, an individual human being, with a name—Jeff Henderson. Order one for the rugged individualist on your gift list.
Find it at UncommonGoods
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by Grillers Gold | BBQ, Flavor, Grilling, Holiday
Here are two things about wood pellet grills that should fill your heart with gratitude this Thanksgiving:
1. True indirect heat, just like your oven.
2. Great taste unlike any appliance in your kitchen can deliver.
Do something different with that bird this Thanksgiving!
Roasting your Thanksgiving bird in the oven is the traditional way to go. But if you’re looking to take Thanksgiving to the next level, why not riff on tradition this year, using your wood pellet grill’s special super powers? You can get that crispy-skin-on-the-outside/juicy-meat-on-the-inside goodness, and fantastic flavor, too.
Indirect heat isn’t just something any grill can deliver. A wood pellet grill, however, controls temperature and circulates heat evenly throughout. There are no hot spots, no undercooked areas, no variation from one place in the bird to the next. It’s all good with indirect heat!
What’s even more amazing is the flavor. Wood pellets add a smoky taste that’s special. And simply delicious.
Let’s get cooking!
The farm-to-table experts at the University of Illinois Extension spell out simple turkey-on-the-grill guidelines here. And depending on how big your grill is, you can also fit in a few baking dishes on the side. Anything that you could cook in the oven, you can bake on a wood pellet grill. Try this scalloped potatoes recipe for a classic Thanksgiving side. You can also check out some tasty autumn vegetable dishes here for more inspiration!
Smoky flavor for everyone
If you’re one of those confident outdoor cooks who knows how to get indirect heat on your conventional grill, you can get smoky wood pellet flavor for your bird with a smoker box or tube. Thanksgiving is a great time to get smokin’ without a wood pellet grill.
Enjoy the holiday and thanks for reading!
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by Grillers Gold | Grilling, Holiday
1. Memorial Day: it’s about more than grilling
Memorial Day was first observed in the years after the Civil War, though it only became an official federal holiday in 1971. We honor the men and women who fell in U.S. military service with parades and public ceremonies–and at gatherings in backyards across America. Summer doesn’t begin on the calendar until the second half June, but in American lifestyles, it starts now. And that’s something to celebrate, too.
2. Who invented hamburgers?
Seymour, Wisconsin, is the home of the Hamburger Hall of Fame. The community of Seymour is one of several American towns that claims to be the historic birthplace of the American hamburger. But it’s actually in the city of Hamburg, Germany, where a cooked flat patty of ground beef was dubbed the ‘Hamburg Steak.’
3. When hot dogs get really hot
When grilling season begins, consumption of hot dogs increases in a big way. Americans typically consume about 7 billion hot dogs in those 3+ months – or 818 per second.
4. America loves grilling!
According to a recent Forbes magazine piece, 75% of U.S. adults own a grill or smoker. You are not alone!
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