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Managing How To Stop and Prevent Flare-ups on your grill Flare-ups occur when splattered grease or fat makes contact with the heat source and sparks into a flame. To prevent flare-ups, make sure your grill is clean before you start-even old grease splatters can cause flare-ups and charring. Make...

  Snake Method BBQ.  although new to many has actually been around for sometime. Snake Method BBQ is fairly simple only requiring access to a standard Weber or general grill or any simple grill in which charcoal briquettes are the primary source of heat. The charcoal is laid out in a...

  Pork Rubs have been around for years and years. The first initial rubs consisted of simple sea salt and black pepper. Then later combined with ground and powdered garlic to enhance the flavor of the meat as well as entice the taste buds. A pork rub may or may not be designed specifically for...

  How to Keep Barbecue Sauce Fresh Along with getting asked a number of questions about our sauces, many people ask about simple preservation methods. Meaning, how long can you actually keep a barbecue sauce in the refrigerator before it spoils? Jake's sauces are good for 18 months on the...

  Marinating meat can be one of the simplest and easiest ways of bringing flavor to foods. The only real limitation is "time". Planning ahead is crucial to determining the tenderness and importation of flavor that meats experience. In this article we discuss some suggestions...

  Is it easy to make smoky succulent, sweet and tasty ribs? The answer is YES! We show you our guide and several methods that will simplify the process of smoking ribs either on the barbecue, in your oven or in a standard smoker unit such as water smokers. A water smoker uses a water container...

  Meat smoking has been around for more than One Hundred years. In fact on my last journey to the mountains of Norway (2011) I saw many farmhouses with individual smokehouses on stilts just yards from their backdoor. Smoking not only adds flavor to meat but removing or drying out the...

  Follow our step by step process on How To Smoke A Turkey - On Your Smoker to ensure an evenly cooked and smoked turkey. Prepare the smoker by removing the lid and center ring of your smoker, open all vents and place 2 layers of briquettes (about 10 Pounds) in the charcoal basket.  Light...

Best Kept Top Secret and Way for Protecting Fish from Freezer Burn How many times have you gone fishing, brought home the "big one" and put it in your freezer only to find that two weeks later it had freezer burn? Here's a really simple way to stop freezer burn from happening...

  When catering, one of the biggest issues we have is how to keep food hot during and after grilling or transporting and travel. Especially if it has been grilled sometime earlier or in a different location from which it is served. This is a common problem many people face and so...

  Grilled Asparagus is one of the easiest and healthiest vegetables to grill, besides Bell Pepper. I love Asparagus it is a great vegetable and while it may not be as versatile as carrots or potatoes it is very versatile in its use ability.  Asparagus is...

  How do you get wood smoke flavor onto meats when using a gas grill? Learn how to use a Gas Grill deliver amazing wood flavor.  Gas grills have become more efficient over the years.  Their single greatest advantage over charcoal grills is that heat is delivered quickly through the...

Clean ribs is a primary requirement prior to barbecue.  But before you add dry rubs, marinades and seasoning, we'll need to spend some time getting the ribs prepared and ready.  The process is somewhat simple but can be daunting if you've never been exposed to the preparation...

  Building a 55 Gallon Drum barbecue was one of the most rewarding experiences I've had in a long time. The picture doesn't look like much but I'll tell you that I'll stand my grill against grills costing 2 or $3,000 anytime and my barbecue will be far superior. Below are my...

  These instructions will help you when preparing and  BBQ shrimp and how to grill. Although it may look easy, it is important to follow some key steps to ensure that your shrimp come out looking and tasting great. 1. Buying Shrimp Because of shrimps perishability most are frozen and...

  The process of making Barbecue is fairly easy when you read and prepare beforehand. We've put together some helpful and considered secret simplified steps we believe will help you achieve the rib success you desire. Follow these steps to learn how easy it is to grill BBQ ribs....

  Our Guide on How to BBQ A Filet Mignon The information provided below focuses on cooking BBQ filet mignon  and general steaks on a charcoal grill. We especially like cooking steaks on grills with covers like those kettle style grills. With these type grills you get a nice...

  How To Apply Natural BBQ Rub Seasonings To Steaks, Meat our Guide. Many people have asked us just exactly how do you use those great natural dry rub seasonings and in particular how much dry rub seasoning do you use for a steak, ribs, chicken, fish, etc. We've been doing it so long that...

  A word about salt and the levels contained in Jakes. Over the past few months we've had lots of potential customers at demonstrations tell us that they are concerned about salt and its effects. And though many of them use this as an excuse not to buy we're not completely...

  Adding Barbecue Sauce, Just how Much? One of the age old secrets to good barbecuing is knowing when and how much barbecue sauce to use. Too much barbecue sauce and your meat is literally swimming in sauce which overtly covers up the flavor of the meat letting you only taste the sauce. Too...

Using the proper number of briquettes is important. Proper cooking is ensured when the right amount of charcoal briquettes are use.  If too few briquettes are used, food may not cook evenly and you run the risk of serving raw foods which is of course a No, No. To calculate the...