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Meathead: The Science of Great Barbecue and Grilling Hardcover – Illustrated, May 10, 2016
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With the help of physicist and food scientist Prof. Greg Blonder, PhD, of Boston University, he explains why dry brining is better than wet brining; how marinades really work; why rubs shouldn't have salt in them; the importance of digital thermometers; why searing doesn't seal in juices; how salt penetrates but spices don't; when charcoal beats gas and when gas beats charcoal; how to calibrate and tune a grill or smoker; how to keep fish from sticking; cooking with logs; the strengths and weaknesses of the new pellet cookers; tricks for rotisserie cooking; why cooking whole animals is a bad idea; which grill grates are best; and why beer-can chicken is a waste of good beer and nowhere close to the best way to cook a bird.
He shatters the myths that stand in the way of perfection. Among the many busted old husband's tales:
* Myth: Bring meat to room temperature before cooking.
* Myth: Soak wood before using it. * Myth: Bone-in steaks taste better. * Myth: You should sear first, then cook. The book blends chemistry, physics, meat science, and humor. Lavishly designed with hundreds of full-color photos by the author, this book contains all the sure-fire recipes for traditional American favorites and many more outside-the-box creations. You'll get recipes for all the great regional barbecue sauces; rubs for meats and vegetables; Last Meal Ribs; Simon & Garfunkel Chicken; Schmancy Smoked Salmon; The Ultimate Turkey; Texas Brisket; Perfect Pulled Pork; Sweet & Sour Pork with Mumbo Sauce; Whole Hog; Steakhouse Steaks; Diner Burgers; Prime Rib; Brazilian Short Ribs; Rack Of Lamb Lollipops; Huli-Huli Chicken; Smoked Trout Florida Mullet -Style; Baja Fish Tacos; Grilled Lobster, and many more.
- Print length400 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherHarvest
- Publication dateMay 10, 2016
- Dimensions8.2 x 1.3 x 10.1 inches
- ISBN-10054401846X
- ISBN-13978-0544018464
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- Publisher : Harvest; Illustrated edition (May 10, 2016)
- Language : English
- Hardcover : 400 pages
- ISBN-10 : 054401846X
- ISBN-13 : 978-0544018464
- Item Weight : 2.84 pounds
- Dimensions : 8.2 x 1.3 x 10.1 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #12,765 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #15 in Food Science (Books)
- #18 in Meat Cooking
- #20 in Barbecuing & Grilling
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I am one of only 26 living members of the BBQ Hall of Fame. My hardbound book, "Meathead, The Science Of Great Barbecue and Grilling" was a New York Times Best Seller and named "One of the 100 Best Cookbooks of All Time" by Southern Living Magazine right alongside of Julia and Jacques.
My biz card says I am the BBQ Whisperer and Hedonism Evangelist behind AmazingRibs.com, the world's most popular BBQ & grilling website, by far. The Roman god Bacchus is my paragon.
Dad was the first to call me Meathead after watching Archie Bunker and now everyone calls me that. No offense taken. It fit, especially as I got into BBQ. It's better than what my editors and my wife call me. If you've read this far, you're my buddy and you can call me whatever you want.
I've had the privilege of judging barbecue and other foods and drinks from Italy to California. I have been a judge at the Jack Daniel's World Championship Invitational Barbecue, at the Kingsford Invitational, at the California State Fair Commercial Wine Competition, at the World-Wide Mustard Competition, and the World Championship Steak Cook-Off. I have served as Chief Judge of the Finger Lakes International Wine Competition and Chief Judge of the College Football Hall of Fame Kickoff Riboff, and I founded and directed for many years the World Wine Championships, World Beer Championships, and World Spirits Championships.
Along the way I have tried to share my love of the sensory world with words and pictures. I was a journalism major at the University of Florida and I have written hundreds of articles about food and drink as a syndicated columnist for the Washington Post and the Chicago Tribune.
I've been helping folks learn about food and drink online since 1990 when I started Wine & Dine Online as part of LAOnline, long before anybody typed "w" three times in a row. I then hosted the Food & Drink Network on America Online from 1992-2000, built Tastings.com in 1998, and built AmazingRibs.com in 2005.
I lectured for more than a decade on wine at Cornell University's famous School of Hotel Administration in Ithaca, NY, and I was an adjunct professor at Le Cordon Bleu in Chicago for three years. As founder of the Beverage Testing Institute I produced seven books on wine, beer, and spirits.
As an undergrad I studied photography with the brilliant Jerry N. Uelsmann and picked up the world's first Masters degree in Art in Technology from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago under Sonia Landy Sheridan. I have since studied with John Paul Caponigro, Harold Ross, and Dave Black.
My interest in cooking began when I was about 10 and Mom and Dad opened a restaurant and I got to be a real jerk, a soda jerk. They named the place after a beautiful flower, the Oleander. We later learned it was poisonous, and eventually the restaurant failed. If you ever hear that I'm opening a restaurant, hunt me down and shoot me.
In my senior year of high school my science project was setting up a test plant to measure the oxygen output from algae, and then harvesting it for food to see if it could be used in space travel. I developed my first recipe: Algae cookies. They needed a LOT of chocolate chips. It won a prize from NASA at the 1967 Florida State Science Fair. I just showed pictures of the cookies because if the judges had tasted them they would have kicked me out.
I first discovered real barbecued ribs, smoked over wood, at a rickety joint named YT Parker's Bar-B-Q in Gainesville, FL, when I was at the University of Florida. YT let me hang out around the open air pit with him and his pals. My parents had warned me that smoking marijuana would lead to harder stuff. Well, they were right. I gave up weed and took up smoking pork.
Since then I have become an omnivore, eating and drinking for a living since 1970. It's a dirty job, but somebody's gotta do it. And I've got wine and sauce stains on all my shirts and the well-marbled waistline to prove I do it well. My goal is to improve the world one cook at a time and one meal at a time.
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This book is basically a summary of all of the great articles from amazingribs.com and combined into 1 place. I LOVE that. It's so nice to have all of the information I normally refer to online in an easy to use book. The look of the book is also extremely attractive. You'll be surprised at how wrong you are about a lot of things regarding cooking when you read this book. He debunks a LOT of popular myths using science which is superb and extremely interesting to learn. It's also a fun book which is important as well to learning and remembering information.
I simply cannot recommend this book more highly. This IS the BBQ bible. If you consider yourself a person who likes to BBQ you NEED this book. It will change your life. Indirect heat is what separates the men from the boys when it comes to cooking. Mastering indirect heat is how you can move from simply a guy who "grills" to a professional who makes world class BBQ. He coves a lot of great gear and accessories to purchase that will help with your grilling. I have a lot of what he recommends and I won't waste your time with reviewing each and every piece of equipment he talks about but I will recommend this one thing. The Maverick ET-733 is the best piece of BBQ equipment I own. (aside from my Weber Smokey Mountain and 22" Weber grill of course...) I'm sure you've had the "well, I slightly overcooked the steak...but I'll get it next time." NEVER AGAIN if you own this thermometer and learn how to use it. You can make perfect food each and every time you cook using this thermometer. Even if I'm making something extremely simply like a single burger I will STILL use this. I will NOT cook any food on the grill without it. It takes practice to understand how deep to insert the probe, etc, but once you cook with it for a while and you master using it, and along with the information contained within this book you'll have the power to become a competition winning Q'er.
PS. I'll put my pulled pork up against ANYONE in the world including the author of this book. My pulled pork in my specialty and it's unbeatable. I'm going to start entering the competition scene to prove it. See the pictures I added to see what the best pulled pork in the world looks like. That is, of course, a custom homemade rub as well.
Reviewed in the United States on June 12, 2016
This book is basically a summary of all of the great articles from amazingribs.com and combined into 1 place. I LOVE that. It's so nice to have all of the information I normally refer to online in an easy to use book. The look of the book is also extremely attractive. You'll be surprised at how wrong you are about a lot of things regarding cooking when you read this book. He debunks a LOT of popular myths using science which is superb and extremely interesting to learn. It's also a fun book which is important as well to learning and remembering information.
I simply cannot recommend this book more highly. This IS the BBQ bible. If you consider yourself a person who likes to BBQ you NEED this book. It will change your life. Indirect heat is what separates the men from the boys when it comes to cooking. Mastering indirect heat is how you can move from simply a guy who "grills" to a professional who makes world class BBQ. He coves a lot of great gear and accessories to purchase that will help with your grilling. I have a lot of what he recommends and I won't waste your time with reviewing each and every piece of equipment he talks about but I will recommend this one thing. The Maverick ET-733 is the best piece of BBQ equipment I own. (aside from my Weber Smokey Mountain and 22" Weber grill of course...) I'm sure you've had the "well, I slightly overcooked the steak...but I'll get it next time." NEVER AGAIN if you own this thermometer and learn how to use it. You can make perfect food each and every time you cook using this thermometer. Even if I'm making something extremely simply like a single burger I will STILL use this. I will NOT cook any food on the grill without it. It takes practice to understand how deep to insert the probe, etc, but once you cook with it for a while and you master using it, and along with the information contained within this book you'll have the power to become a competition winning Q'er.
PS. I'll put my pulled pork up against ANYONE in the world including the author of this book. My pulled pork in my specialty and it's unbeatable. I'm going to start entering the competition scene to prove it. See the pictures I added to see what the best pulled pork in the world looks like. That is, of course, a custom homemade rub as well.
This book will pay for it's self in quick order if you follow a few simple suggestions.
No wonder Meathead Goldwyn was elected into the Barbecue Hall of Fame. He’s a genius.
With lots of entraining humor, Mr. Goldwyn explains everything from the different types of heat; to equipment, to collagen breakdown, the stall, to how rubs (and some unnecessary foreign substances) interact with tissue…or do nothing at all. Then he backs everything up with science and experience. Bonus: there’s even pictures and illustrations.
Mr. Goldwyn also debunks many BBQ myths. You know, those not so secret tips you heard from a friend who has a cousin, who knows someone that said, well, [ insert eye rolling nonsensical bbq tip here ].
I was a virgin in the world of low and slow barbecuing. Okay, I was dumber than dirt! In the past I had only cooked using the direct and indirect methods on my wee Kettle. Having just purchased a WSM, 22 inch (don’t laugh) I needed knowledge, lots of beautiful knowledge. Whoever said, “you can’t teach an old dog a new trick” should be sent to their room without barbecue. Personally, I found exactly what I was looking for in “Meathead: The Science of Great Barbecue and Grilling.” Not once did I find myself mentally asking, “But why?” Nor was the content difficult to comprehend.
Did Mr. Goldwyn’s book magically transform me into an expert Pitmaster? No. It gave me something better. His book gave me the knowledge and confidence I needed for my first cook and a solid foundation on which to build.
With Meathead as my wingman, my very first low and slow cook didn’t go down in flames.
I highly recommend this book to everyone from Padawan to Pitmaster.