Help keep AmazingRibs free!
With a $25 donation you'll get a 100% cotton, brushed twill, adjustable, low profile cap with the AmazingRibs.com patch sewn on. I'll even toss in a small bag of BBQ'rs Delight excellent wood smoke pellets.
Click for more info and pictures of the hat.
|
|
QUICK LINKS
| |
|
Show Me Yours
|
I've been getting wonderful emails and pix from you. Man, you folks
know how to party! Send me pix of your versions of my recipes or your party and I might publish them on my site.
|
Be My FB Friend
|
|
| Smoke Signals is Free
|
|
|
|
About Smoke Signals
|
| 
Smoke Signals is the free email from AmazingRibs.com and Barbecue Whisperer and Hedonism Evangelist, Meathead.
If you like my website, please click here to forward a copy of this to a friend. And remember: No rules in the bedroom or the kitchen!
|
Searing Steaks: Meathead's First Video
|
|  Ribeyes.
Just typing the word makes my keyboard cower in fear of drool. Ribeyes are, in my humble opinion, the best steaks on the steer. And I am not alone. Chef Jamie Purviance agrees. Jamie is the well known author of several cookbooks, most recently the New York Times bestseller, Weber's Way to Grill: The Step-by-Step Guide to Expert Grilling.
Jamie and I got together last month with two identical Weber Kettle charcoal grills to answer the kind of question that keeps steak lovers like us up all night: When is the best time to sear a steak, when you start cooking, or at the end of the cook? Believe it or not, when you sear the steak makes a huge difference in flavor, texture, and juiciness.
Dueling grills, dueling ribeyes cut from the same roast side-by-side. May the best steak win. Completely unrehearsed, watch the video above and see what happened.
|
How to Grill Great Steakhouse Steaks
|
| 
Steaks are easy. Hard to mess up. Regardless of what cut you cook, there are some basic tips and techniques that can raise your game, and when you master them, you will have your guests reeling in deliria.
In this all new article, in my typically exhaustive style, we focus on the best cuts, the best grades, thickness, prep, cooking method, testing for doneness, resting, serving, accompaniments, and much more. Click here to learn the secrets of great steakhouse steaks.
|
Buying Beef: The Zen of Beef Cuts and Grades
|
| 
Butcher jargon can be confusing. There are more than 50 different cuts of steak available in the US, and some go by multiple names. Here's a photographic look at the different cuts of beef and three downloadable charts just like the ones in your butcher's office.
|
Buying Beef: The Zen of Beef Grades & Labels
|
| 
I posted this article a while ago, but I've just finished expanding it (have you ever noticed that my articles never shrink?). There are really useful photos of the different grades of beef and definitions, some revelatory info on the truth about Certified Angus Beef, but this week I've added a discussion of the future of beef. I see something happening that reminds me of the wine industry in the 1960s (yes, I'm that old).
There is a rapidly growing vital movement to grass fed beef, sustainable beef, varietal beef, and even estate grown artisan beef. I think this movement will really catch on in the next decade as quality conscious and environmentally conscious consumers look for top quality, new flavors, and try to avoid factory farmed beef. Click here to read The Zen of Beef Grades & Labels.
|
A Deeply Disturbing Movie - Second Attempt
|
|  In the last issue of Smoke Signals I told you about a wacky movie from the 1940s accompanying my recipe for Mom's Potato Salad.
Some of you said the link was broken, so here it is again. Click the link above to go to the page with the video. It's 3 minutes 44 seconds, and it starts getting weird at about 1 minute 30 seconds. Don't worry, it's clean. My friend, Brigit Binns or Roadfoodie.com called it "A Deeply Disturbing Video." What do you think?
And while you're at it, make some potato salad to go with your steaks.
|
|
Fun Gifts for the Barbecue Fan
|
|  Visit the AmazingRibs.com Gift Shop for a chuckle. There are now more than 30 steak-themed designs, about 20 hotdog-themed designs, and more than 30 wine-themed designs. Order aprons, hats, shirts, sweatshirts, intimate wear, and
other apparel for men, women, kids and pets, beer mugs, posters, and
other tschotschkes.
|
|
|
