Best day in months. Wow. Awesome everything. Spent hours outside. First shorts day of the year for me. Big Green Egg at dinner too!
Cooking
Outdoor cooking experiments—primarily on my Big Green Egg and new Traeger grill—are documented here. Posts recount brisket attempts, sous‑vide pork butt sessions and holiday tenderloin traditions, with candid notes on smoke, temperature and results.
Making waffles with Mazie.
Nice evening of grilling on the Big Green Egg.
Be Smarter, Calibrate your Thermometers
I’ve been firing up the Big Green Egg throughout winter and as the weather has started to get a little nicer I’ve been grilling even more. I’ve been really frustrated lately though with my grill not coming up to temperature as fast as I thought it should. I also have been getting …
Keep reading · 2 minutes: Be Smarter, Calibrate your ThermometersFiring up Big Green Egg to smoke two racks of ribs.
Baked Ziti from April 2009 Cooks Illustrated. Looks great!
Fired up the Big Green Egg and did a 3 lb. grass-fed beef tenderloin on it tonight. Basic preparation with a little salt and pepper. Turned out really nice, but I still have much to learn. Controlling the heat on the Egg at 400 °F was harder than it should have. I could have done a better job building the fire.
Thermapen, Grill Like a Pro
A few months ago my neighbor Mike and I decided to put my Big Green Egg through it’s first real trial with a 12-hour brisket session. Mike is a stellar cook on all counts and I wanted to learn anything I could about grilling. As we were working the brisket through the hours we …
Keep reading · 2 minutes: Thermapen, Grill Like a ProWe’ve been enjoying the reprieve from -20 °F to 20 °F with some great winter grilling on the Big Green Egg. Tonight is a chicken on the vertical roaster.
Celebrating the “heat wave” with some pork chops on the Big Green Egg!