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Thermometers
Our favorite instant read thermometer is this one from ThermoPro.
For an affordable leave in thermometer, we have this ThermoPro.
Our splurge meat thermometer is the MEATER, which measures the internal temperature of the food as well as the ambient temperature on a single wireless probe. The probe pairs with a free app on your smart phone via Bluetooth to allow you to monitor the temperature up to 165 feet away, or more if you connect it to your wifi.
It gives you an estimated finish time just like a GPS.
Knives
Our favorite meat slicing knife is this one from Mairico. We use it for just about everything from brisket, to turkey, and even to cut dense vegetables like sweet potatoes.
Our favorite knife for trimming fat from meat is this boning knife from imarku. It's small and sharp and does the trick.
Seasoning
We love trying new BBQ seasoning any chance we get, so we have a lot of favorites. The ones we use most often are Three Little Pigs Championship BBQ Rub, Bad Byron's Butt Rub, Famous Dave's Rib Rub and Chicken Rub, and just about anything from Meat Church.
BBQ Sauces
Blues Hog is our favorite brand for BBQ sauce. We've been using their Tennessee Red for many years on pulled pork and pulled chicken. Their Original Sauce is very thick and great on chicken and ribs.
Blues Hog caught on that many BBQ competitors were mixing these two sauces and started selling Blues Hog Championship Blend. We love this sauce because it combines the best of both worlds.
BBQ Accessories
In order to safely BBQ, you must have a good pair of heat resistant gloves. Ours go up to 1472°F!
When we are rotating or carving hot meat, we always use food-safe disposable nitrile gloves on top of cloth liners.
We use these Silicone Basting Brushes to apply oil, BBQ sauce, or glaze to just about everything.
For a whole turkey or a turkey breast, a V shaped rack is a must. It lifts the bird up to allow more air flow and even cooking.
We use a wire rack over a baking sheet for dry brining skin-on poultry like chicken wings, chicken thighs, turkey wings, and turkey thighs. We also use it for salmon and for resting seared meat like hamburgers and steaks to prevent the bottoms from getting soggy.
Pellet Grill Accessories
If you watch our YouTube Channel, you know we are huge fans of the Oklahoma Joe's Pellet Storage Bucket and have many of them. It has a mesh screen to filter out pellet debris, which will not burn efficiently in your grill.
While some pellet grills like the Pit Boss 1150 Pro do feature a direct heat option, many do not. Even with direct heat, the area above the firepot is small. We use a set of Grill Grates to sear meat on our pellet grills. They can get over 700°F and provide a larger, more evenly heated searing surface. We use them to sear steaks, burgers, turkey burgers, and more. They come in different sizes to fit different grills so make sure to measure first!
An alternative to using the Grill Grates is to use a cast iron pan or a cast iron griddle.
One of the biggest complaints we hear about pellet grills is related to temperature problems. We experienced these ourselves and found that using a Heat Deflector and a Flame Tamer from Smokes Like A Boss helped tremendously.
We found a similar product to the Heat Deflector on Amazon, as well as a similar product to the Flame Tamer.
Some of our viewers recommend the Smoke Daddy Heavy D, which serves as a flame tamer and smoker box.
Electric Smoker Accessories
We have two favorite accessories for our Masterbuilt Electric Smoker. The first is a stand with rear wheels which allows you to move the smoker around easily.
The second is the Masterbuilt Cold Smoker Attachment. This is truly a game changer for smoking with an electric smoker. As the name suggests, you can cold smoke inside the chamber by using this exterior heating unit. We find that the most useful feature of this product is that it has a large chamber for wood chips. This means you can smoke a large piece of meat like a Boston butt or brisket for many hours without having to refill the wood chips!
Wood Pellets, Chips and Chunks
Not all pellets are created equal. You will find that some brands of big box store pellets look like compressed sawdust and crumble into dust easily. For a mid-price brand of pellets, we like Bear Mountain Brand.
Our favorite premium brand pellet is by Knotty Wood, particularly the 100% Plum Wood Pellets and the Almond Cabernet Wine Blend Pellets.
To save money, we place these high end pellets in a pellet tube smoker and use the less expensive pellets in the hopper for heat.
One of our favorite ways to add smoke flavor on a pellet grill is by using a firebox with charcoal and real wood chunks. We get exceptional smoke flavor using this method!
In our charcoal grill, we set it up for indirect heat and add wood chunks on top of the charcoal.
For our electric smoker, we typically go for Weber or Cowboy brand wood chips.
Grill Cleaning
Our favorite bristle free BBQ brush is the BBQ Daddy Grill Brush. Because pellet grills do not get hot enough for a traditional burn off, it makes cleaning the grates so easy without any chemicals.
We like the GrillArt Brush for gas and charcoal grills.
A wooden scraper makes cleaning off the flame broiler of a pellet grill much easier.
We use CitruSafe Degreaser Spray inside our grills to clean up grease on surfaces that will not be touching our food.
