Dr. BBQ: What is the best charcoal smoker for under $100? Thanks, Dale Hi Dale, There isn’t much that I know of under $100. I think Brinkman makes a little water smoker or you could but a kettle grill and improvise. Sorry but your budget is a little light. If you can go around $200 you should be able to …
Why Chiles Conquered America
I am constantly asked to explain the exponential growth of interest in chile peppers and the boom in fiery foods products in the U.S. over the past two decades. How did a meat and potatoes America become enamored of hot sauces, salsas, spicy snack food, chili con carne, and hundreds and hundreds of other fiery foods? First, we must look …
Why Cooks Spice Up Their Foods
There are a number of explanations for why we have added spices such as chile peppers to our foods over the tens or hundreds of thousands of years that we have been cooking. They are: –Spices make foods taste better. –The "eat-to-sweat hypothesis"-eating spicy foods makes us cool down during hot weather. –To disguise the taste of spoiled food. –Spices …