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Table of Contents ii. Introduction & Greetings I. Barbecue and Grilling Books II. Acessories for the Grill, Apps and Gagets and more.... III. Sauces, Rubs, Meats IV. BBQ Competition Gifts
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e can’t believe that the 2012 holiday season is upon us, this year has gone by so fast. We have been busy all year long sharing with you fun grilling adventures, great recipes, barbecue and grilling interview with the top pitmasters in the barbecue and grilling world. Now we are proud to share with you the 2012 Grilling with Rich Holiday Guide which is the definitive holiday shopping guide for grilling and barbecue products. The guide contains typical gadgets and products some with a twist, as well as some items that you wouldn’t have thought of buying for your special griller or barbecuer in your life. We are looking forward to another successful year in 2013! As we approach the holiday season, we would like to thank you our fans and supporters, for allowing us into your home, office or wherever you read Grilling with Rich. You have become part of our extended family, and we look forward to sharing with you not only our great adventures but also the joyous occasions that our family celebrates. We would like to thank all of our amazing sponsors of the website, and the Grilling with Rich BBQ Competition Team that allow to share with you our great adventures and grilling and barbecue adventures. Lastly, we would like to thank the men and women of the United States Armed Forces for protecting us, and those who have made the ultimate sacrifice for our country. Even though this book focuses on the material part of the holiday season, we wouldn’t be remiss to mention that the holiday season is more than just about the material gifts that we give each other but rather the time that we spend with our families. Season Greetings From our family to yours, Richard, Michelle and Cooper
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here are a lot of great barbecue and grilling cookbooks, recipe guides and how-to’s out on the market. Here are some of my favorite books that you can simply purchase on-line for that special griller or barbecuer in your life.
Featured Barbecue Cookbook 2012: Wicked Good Barbecue: Fearless Recipes from Two Damn Yankees Who Have Won the Biggest, Baddest BBQ Competition in the World [Paperback] Wicked Good Barbecue ain’t your daddy’s barbecue. It’s just the best you’ve ever tasted. Award-winning chefs Andy Husbands and Chris Hart reveal their secrets to competition-winning barbecue—from the actual recipe that won the Jack Daniel’s World Championship Invitational, to the 25-Step Championship Chicken that melts in your mouth and the American Royal First Place Beef Brisket, king of them all, hardest to master and unforgettable to eat when it’s done right.
Weber’s Smoke: A Guide to Smoke Cooking for Everyone and Any Grill [Paperback] Weber’s Smoke, takes you on a journey on how to infusing rich, smoky flavors into non-typical recipes such as Moroccan Smoke- Roasted Beef Tenderlion, an Open Faced Steak Sandwich with Green Chilie Salsa, a slow smoked mesquite brisket recipe. Not only does Weber Smoke, focus on meat it also has a chapter of great fish recipes such as Dijon Salmon Strips, Teriyaki Tuna and Pineapple Kabobs just to name a few recipes.
Peace, Love, & Barbecue: Recipes, Secrets, Tall Tales, and Outright Lies from the Legends of Barbecue [Paperback] This book is a one-of-a-kind collection of recipes, photographs, and behind-the-scenes stories from legendary pitmaster Mike Mills. In this unique combination of cookbook, memoir, and travelogue, Mike Mills, the unrivalled king of barbecue, shares his passion for America’s favorite cuisine–its intense smoky flavors, its lore and traditions, and its wild cast of characters. Through conversational anecdotes and black-and-white photographs, readers meet a diverse circle of colleagues and friends and join Mills in a behind-the-scenes tour of the barbecue contest circuit, with stops at some of the best “shrines, shacks, joints, and right-respectable restaurants.” Also included are prizewinning recipes that have earned Mills his fame and fortune as a barbecue maestro. These 100 recipes will enable anyone with a grill to achieve champion barbecue flavor right in their own backyard. The selection features Mills’ own secret concoctions and treasured family recipes as well as choice contributions from his pitmaster friends, and it covers all manner of barbecued meat and fish, sauces and dry rubs, as well as the sides, soups, and down-home sweets that complete any great barbecue feast. With its folksy, fun-loving tone and its unique insider’s take on a hugely popular–and deeply
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American–subject, this volume will appeal to barbecue lovers, food mavens, and cooks of all stripes.
Big Bob Gibson’s BBQ Book: Recipes and Secrets from a Legendary Barbecue Joint [Paperback] Winners of the World Championship BBQ Cook-Off for six years in a row and with hundreds of other contest ribbons as well, nobody does barbecue better than Big Bob Gibson Bar-B-Q in Decatur, Alabama. Chris Lilly, executive chef of Big Bob Gibson Bar-B-Q and great-grandson-in-law of Big Bob himself, now passes on the family secrets in this quintessential guide to barbecue. From dry rubs to glazes and from sauces to slathers, Lilly gives the lowdown on Big Bob Gibson Bar-B-Q’s award-winning seasonings and combinations. You’ll learn the unique flavors of different woods and you’ll get insider tips on creating the right heat—be it in a charcoal grill, home oven, or backyard ground pit. Then, get the scoop on pulled pork, smoked beef brisket, pit-fired poultry, and, of course, ribs. Complete the feast with sides like red-skin potato salad and black-eyed peas. And surely you’ll want to save room for Lilly’s dessert recipes such as Big Mama’s Pound Cake. Loaded with succulent photographs, easy-tofollow instructions, and colorful stories, Big Bob Gibson’s BBQ Book honors the legacy of Big Bob Gibson— and of great barbeque
Barbecue! Bible: Sauces, Rubs, and Marinades, Bastes, Butters, and Glazes [Paperback] Transform meats and seafood into world-class barbecue with the flavor foundations, wet and dry, that give grilled food its character, personality, and soul. Chili-fired rubs, lemony marinades, buttery bastes, and pack-awallop sauces, mops, slathers, sambals, and chutneys - in over 200 recipes from around the globe, master griller Steven Raichlen shows how to add the expert touch to every dish in your repertoire, from a simply steak to an exotic kebab. Includes a short refresher course in grilling and a step-by-step guide to building a signature sauce.
BBQ Makes Everything Better [Paperback] Barbecue, the beloved cooking method of chefs and home cooks alike, yields delicious slow-cooked, aromatic meats, charred, juicy burgers, and tender, delectable vegetables. In BBQ Makes Everything Better, Aaron Chronister and Jason Day—two masters of the grill who were catapulted from their backyards to international fame with their invention of the Bacon Explosion—present mouthwatering, easy-to-follow barbecue recipes for any occasion. Including a thorough discussion of equipment, methods, and techniques for cooking well beyond the “Holy Trinity of BBQ” (ribs, pork, and brisket), BBQ Makes Everything Better shows that you can also make a perfect meal out of the “Ugly Stepchild of Barbecue”—chicken. Lighthearted in tone and full of clear, straightforward instructions, BBQ Makes Everything Better is the complete barbecue cookbook.
The Salt Lick Cookbook: A Story of Land, Family, and Love [Hardcover] In Texas and throughout the South, myriad barbecue joints claim the title of “best barbecue.” Many barbecue
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enthusiasts would nearly fight to the death to defend their favorite, and the Salt Lick is certainly a contender. But Salt Lick owner Scott Roberts doesn’t care about that. He’s more interested in the smiles on his customers’ faces as they leave the restaurant. With more than 600,000 customers served each year, he may be onto something. That’s because Roberts is building on the foundation his family laid down more than 130 years ago, as his great-grandparents made their long journey to Texas. On the trail, they prepared food and cooked meat in ways that preserved it. Roberts keeps those techniques because they are simple and proven. His great-grandparents settled in Driftwood in the 1870s, and his grandparents farmed the land and were sustained by its bounty. They helped raise Roberts and instilled in him a love of the rural way of life. This is not a book just about Salt Lick barbecue. It’s about how the barbecue came to be: a story of respect for the land, its history, and the family that planted its roots in Driftwood and cultivated a well-deserved reputation.
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ith millions of great Acessories for the Grill, Apps and Gagets on the internet, it seems at times that you don’t know what to do and what to purchase for that serious griller in your life. Thanks to Rich we have made it easy for you to sort out what are the best acessories for the grill, apps and other great gagets for your love of your life.
Custom Grill Grates Now you have a chance to customize your grill with a new grill grate that will not only impress your family and friends, but will also improve your grilling experience. You purchased the grill of your dreams, found a home for it in your back yard or patio and enjoyed the pleasure of outdoor cooking for family and friends. But at the end of the day, your grill is only one of thousands produced by the grill manufacturers and doesn’t fully represent who you are.
Rotisserie When you need to grill a feast to feed a small army or a heavy turkey for a festive celebration, you need a reliable and durable rotisserie. Besides providing even cooking on all parts of your delicacy, a rotisserie is a pure pleasure to watch.
Grill-Lamp Grill in the dark and have a hard time holding both your spatulae and a flash light? Well, make sure that you purchase a great grill lamp! Toggle switch automatically turns light on when the lid is opened and turns light off when the grill is closed. A must have for all serious grillers. Brush
Weber Grill App If you love to grill or barbecue, you are going to love this app! Weber’s On the Grill™ features 280 classic Weber recipes plus 40 recipes for rubs, marinades, and sauces that are sure to get you fired up to get out and grill. You can tag your favorites, and even create and share a master grocery list for your grilling recipes that you can take with you to the store. There’s a timer within the app, too, so you know exactly when to take your food off the grill. Search and Browse over 300 triple-tested, classic recipes from Weber’s best-selling cookbooks, from starters to desserts, including rubs, marinades, and sauces. Recipes are from Weber’s Art of the Grill™, Weber’s Big Book of Grilling™, Weber’s Charcoal Grilling™, and Weber’s Real Grilling™.
Featured APP and Gaget for 2012: The Johnsonville® Kitchens Mobile App The Johnsonville® Kitchens Mobile App—your source for great-tasting cooking and grilling recipes using Johnsonville® award winning sausages. Get easy access to great recipes, information on grilling and cooking tips, upcoming Johnsonville events and promotions, and more. Johnsonville is America’s No. 1 sausage. At
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Johnsonville, Sausage is All We Do. More than just recipes, the Johnsonville Kitchens mobile app is a complete cooking solution for in your kitchen and by your grill! Choose from Italian Inspired Pastas, Pizza Possibilities, Hearty Bowls, Morning Masterpieces, Party Appetizers, Casual Occasions and Comfort Cuisine for mouth-watering, family pleasing meals. The app includes great easy-to-use features for cooking including:
The Super-Fast Thermapen The Super-Fast Thermapen is a professional tool (originally designed for commercial kitchens, labs and manufacturing plants) that has become the top consumer cooking thermometer for home use. It’s popularity among celebrity chefs, cooking magazines, top foodies, bloggers and competition BBQ teams have made the Thermapen into an essential tool in the best-equipped home kitchens and backyard BBQ rigs. The Thermapen is faster and more accurate than any other cooking thermometer on the market. Competitors have tried to copy the Thermapen with mass-produced products made in China and have flooded the housewares market with slower, less-accurate knock-offs. However, when compared to true competing commercial thermocouple thermometers, the Thermapen is not only faster and more accurate, it’s also less expensive! The Thermapen’s speed and accuracy will reveal more about food and cooking techniques than you ever imagined. You’ll learn that temperatures are always changing; a roast is never the same temperature throughout while cooking. If you want to know what’s really going on, get a Thermapen. If you want to experience speed and precision (traceable to National Standards) and you’re on a quest for culinary perfection, you will want a Thermapen. Add up the expense of wasted meats alone and you’ll justify the cost of this professional tool. A Thermapen can be used for virtually anything that needs to be cooked or chilled. Use it on meats, fish, casseroles, re-heated foods, breads, cakes, deep frying and candy. You don’t have to have a Thermapen to be a great cook; however, more than one celebrity chef and several food writers have testified that a Thermapen will make you a better cook...AND, you can choose your own color! Order one today
IGrill The first grilling and cooking thermometer and App for Apple and Android Devices. iGrill is revolutionizing the way we cook & grill today! iGrill enables you to multitask between your grill and guests with the peace of mind that your food is perfectly cooked, at target temperature and safe for consumption. iGrill communicates with your Apple and Android devices via a secure, long-range Bluetooth® connection.
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arbecue sauces and rubs are essential to make that great barbecue complete. Here are some of our favorite sauces and rubs that we suggest purchasing this holiday season. We are that you are going to enjoy them as much as we do and you will want to surprise that pitmaster in your life with these great flavor profiles.
Pork Barrel BBQ Sauce and Rub In early 2008, Pork Barrel BBQ remained as nothing more than the idea we had conceived two years earlier as Senate staffers. This began to change in the spring of 2008 when we decided it was time to dust off our idea to bring high quality barbecue to Washington, D.C. In June, after weeks in the test kitchen we convened the first meeting of the Pork Barrel BBQ Kitchen Cabinet and asked our Kitchen Cabinet members to rate six variations of what would become our initial product. After several hours of eating, Cabinet members narrowed down the six variations to their two favorites, liking different flavor elements from each. The following week we reconvened the Kitchen Cabinet and presented to them a single product crafted with the previous weeks comments and recommendations in mind. That Sunday afternoon in June 2008, with the blessing of the Kitchen Cabinet, our first product – Pork Barrel BBQ’s All-American Spice Rub – was finalized and ready to take the barbecue world by storm. In December 2008, after months of working through the world of starting a small business, Pork Barrel BBQ was officially founded. There were a lot of people who thought we were crazy founding Pork Barrel BBQ at the peak of the economic crisis, but we wanted to prove that a company not owned or operated by the federal government could succeed if it was founded from a good idea by founders willing to work hard. It was our goal to prove that the free market was still the greatest path to success for a small business and that it was still possible to grab a piece of the “American Dream.”
Featured Barbecue Sauce and Rub 2012: Meat Mitch BBQ Sauce and Rub This sauce is all about the sweet and spice, it is a Kansas City Style through and through. It is a sauce that is great on just about everything. Meat Mitch Whomp! Competition BBQ Sauce is sweet, with a combination of brown sugar and ketchup as the primary ingredients, with a spicy kick to it. The vanilla extract is somewhat the secret to this and not what you would normally find in barbecue sauce. When we tasted it, you can recognize a very subtle, sweet vanilla flavor that comes along with the spice kick. As a competition sauce we have a lot of hopes for it as it will definitely raise some eyebrows.
Dimples BBQ Sauce Cuddle your tongue with Dimples BBQ Sauce, a pleasant medley of sweet tomatoes and tangy vinegar. Dimples compliments anything you can grill into a beautiful blend of barbecue harmony. With its smooth texture and joyful flavor, Dimples defies all categories of smokey goodness.
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Killer Hogs BBQ Rub
The BBQ Rub. for Competition BBQ Teams that want to win... And for backyard BBQ’ers that want the absolute best-tasting BBQ possible... The BBQ RUB. has a perfect blend of Spices, Sugars, and Heat that take your senses on a road trip of flavor. When you get your first taste, you’re going to be hit with the Sweetness of the pure Organic Sugars, you’re going to get the perfect amount of salt to balance out the sweetness... The aromatic spices in The BBQ Rub. are balanced perfectly please your palate and wake up your olfactory sense of smell… just because we want to get all your senses in on the party.But most importantly, the BBQ Rub. is designed to highlight the natural flavors of the meat and not cover them up. When you use the BBQ Rub. you know that you are going to bring out the best in your BBQ. Ubon’s BBQ Sauce This 5th generation, family recipe was perfected by Ubon Roark. It was his prized possession. When he decided to share it with his friends, it made him a local legend. This sauce has won me hundreds of awards and accolades, as well as the respect of my peers. Baste with it, add it to soups and sauces, use it for dipping or as a finishing glaze, dress it up or use it as is.. We are delighted to share with you what our friends & family have been enjoying for more than a century.
Snake River Farms Wagu Meat The beauty of Snake River Farms American Wagyu Beef is its simplicity. It has been raised from the finest stock in the best environment for an intense and succulent beef flavor to be savored and enjoyed. This delicious beef offers positive nutritional benefits as well. Wagyu cattle are genetically predisposed to a higher percentage of unsaturated fat – more than any other breed. Meeting Japan’s exclusive marbling requirements means that Snake River Farms American Wagyu Beef exceeds the quality of other U.S. beef brands. This level of distinction is possible because Snake River Farms uses only the finest stock and carefully manages every step of the production process from start to finish. American Wagyu Beef is known as the Butter Knife Beef because you can cut it with a butter knife. Our beef tastes wonderful. It graces your palate like a fine wine, with complex flavors, subtle sweetness and a lingering finish.
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ompeting in barbecue competitions are one of my favorite things to do on a weekend. I love the smell of barbecue that is in the air all night and morning long, and of course I love the thrill of competing and seeing how all of my recipes stack up against others. Competing requires some great acessories, so here are some great must-have barbecue competition acessories that you can purchase. Custom EZ-Up Our in-house graphics department is able to work with you to identify the ideal display concept to promote your brand or product. Our capabilities travel the spectrum from a simple, one-color imprint to a full-bleed digital imprint; no matter what your choice, you’ll see sharp, colorful graphics that put you in your best light. Our graphics process uses the same resilient inks as outdoor billboard advertisements – and no matter what your order quantity, we have the production timelines to make it happen.
Neoprene-coated insluated gloves
These gloves are made of synthetic neoprene rubber for good chemical resistance. Easily maintain your grip with the nonslip, roughened surface. These gloves can withstand temperatures from -100 to 480°F (-73 to 249°C).
Temerature Control Devices
The BBQ GURU. A BBQ temperature control device for low and slow barbequeing.
BBQ Injector & Needle The DELUXE NoCents 1 gallon power injector needle and valve assembly features a full flow ball valve and a production size needle, using multiple size enlarged holes, which allow small solids to pass freely. If you are trying to inject a liquid with some solid particles, like ground pepper, minced garlic, spices, or thicker liquids, you need the deluxe model.
BBQ Classes Pellet Envy Competition Cooking School Ever dreamed of cooking with the top cooks in the country at one of the biggest, most important contests? This is your chance! Our event simulates a competition in real time with Pellet Envy, the top ranked barbecue com-
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petition team and best brisket cooks of 2009, walking you through every detail or our cooking program. With well over 500 students to date, this program is far and away the most successful barbecue cooking instruction school offered. Students have gone on to thrilling contest and category wins all over the country, repeatedly reporting back their success stories and gratitude for the information and techniques learned. Winning more events in 2008 and 2009 than any other team on the competition barbecue circuit, instructors Rod and Sheri Gray are the most successful competitors currently on the circuit.
Slap Your Daddy BBQ Compeition Class
This class is geared towards applying competition BBQ techniques to your backyard cooking including food safety, meat selection, trimming, recipe injections, rubs, mops, sprays, sauces, temperature control, BBQ chemistry, bark formation, foiling meats, and determining doneness. The class will use a variety of smokers ( Weber Smokey Mountain 18” and 22”, Comet Kamado, Green Mountain Grill), propane grill, gas oven, and focus on wood selection and fire control. In this six-hour class, you will work side-by-side with Harry to smoke, grill, bake, and prepare 15 different types of meats and sides. Sauces and rubs are all prepared from regular pantry ingredients. Class includes an all you can eat BBQ lunch of half-chickens, thighs, St. Louis style spareribs, Baby Back ribs, Rib Tips, Pork Butts, Beef Brisket, Sausage, Hot Links, Salami, and Santa Maria tri-tip. Kingsford E-Store: To help turn yourself from an amatuer pitmaster to a professionals, Kingsford has launched an online store, where grilling enthusiasts can purchase Kingsford, clothing, hats, and grilling tools.
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