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Redefining Blow Torch

Cooking over charcoal can impart many excellent flavor characteristics to your meat of choice — lighter fluid just isn’t one of them. Swedish inventor Richard Looft created the Looftlighter ($80) to end charcoal-grilling man’s dependance on the explosive fluid once and for all, granted they have an electrical outlet close at hand. Looking like a [...]

Better Than Anything You Could Write In

When the calendar turns to August, the sports world looks pretty bleak. Yes baseball is in full swing, and NFL training camps are underway, but there isn’t much else to occupy our interests. Fortunately, it does bring us one step closer to September, and with September comes football and tailgating (a.k.a. pure joy). In preparation [...]

Monitor From a Cool Distance

One way to test the heat of your grill is to step right up, look at the grill temp gauge, and feel the burn on your already steamed person. Ryobi on the other hand offers a pleasant alternative with the Ryobi TEK4 Professional Infrared Thermometer ($69). As a point-and-shoot infrared thermometer, it instantly measures grill [...]

Mesh for Less Mess

Grilling smaller food items can be a bit like playing Lemmings. Careful attention will insure much of what you started with will survive, but some poor morsels are bound to slip through the cracks. While there are many tools and techniques out there to help with this problem, this mesh chef’s pan ($50) from Williams-Sonoma [...]

Grilling: Recyclable, Natural, To Go

National Grilling Month may wrap up today, but there’s plenty of fair weather ahead to lure you and your dining out of doors. Since Gear Patrol readers tend to be an adventurous lot, it might be handy to have a convenient mechanism for grilling up your burgers and brats when you wander out of arms [...]

Turn Up the Heat with Some California Cool

When it comes to buying a grill, there’s no doubt that your primary concern is finding a unit that can get the job done. Every man needs a deckhand that will help him sear, char, and grill with the greatest of ease and aplomb. Now, thanks to Fuego and their new Element Grill, there’s no [...]

I Love the Smell of Lighter Fluid in the Morning

Survival gear is hot these days. With the world economy bottoming out, bombs going off in posh hotels, and threat levels hovering in the orange zone, people are gearing up for the apocalypse. Military chic often surges in popularity during times like these. In the 70s (after Vietnam), preppy kids would comb the racks at [...]

Memorial Day Weekend Make Gear Patrol Hungry!

Memorial Day Weekend is upon us, and thus, the summer grilling season is officially underway. Of course, being the man that you are, you have the right, nay… obligation to grill year-round, but summer is the big show. In honor of the season, Gear Patrol and our friends at Food2 want to set you up [...]

Two Hands Required The 2008 Gear Patrol Gear Burger. Joygasm.    Click Image To Enlarge & Savor What do you get when you mix two hungry Gear Patrol Editors, a classically trained Executive Chef, an empty restaurant and liberal amounts of free time? If you said complete and utter mayhem, then you’d be right. Just for [...]

Those European engineers are clever. The City Grill single burner grill is perfect for those of you with small apartments or patios serving triple duty as a compact bbq grill, oven or range with the flip funnel cooking system. Perfect for the cooking up your next feast you’ll finally be able to serve those clever [...]

Grilling meat is man’s god given right, after all we did come up with that fire thing. For your next soiree, make a name for yourself by getting this combo from Omaha Steaks which includes everything from Filets to Potatoes au Gratin. Everything will arrive fresher than you would probably find at your local franchise [...]

Put your personal stamp on steaks and chops with this branding iron, hand forged in Texas. Your two- or three- initial monogram can include any letter from A to Z. The 11 1/2″ long iron comes with a 14″ high, wall-mount rack for storage. We’d suggest trying it out on a steak you grill with [...]

Now you can make restaurant-style Philly Cheesesteak Sandwiches at home – using your outdoor gas grill. The innovative new Griddle-Q and Oversized Spatula easily transform your grill into a full-size griddle. Large enough to cook for a crowd, the Griddle-Q brings rich, fire-smoked flavor to grilled sandwiches as well as to breakfast favorites like sausages, [...]

Gentlemen. Break out those ribeyes, salmon steaks, skewers and sirloin burgers. It’s time to get grilling. You’re epicurean grilling fantasies are about to come delightfully true with the Weber E-320. A bit pricey yes, but just read on to see why your next outdoor soiree will bring the house down (and your buddy’s bank accounts [...]

The Breville will bring a smile to the most serious of cooks. The die cast, heavy duty countertop grill which also double as a contact grill and an open will sear your steak, heat your pizza, press your panini and grill your meat fish, chicken to perfection. Features: 1500 watts of power 368 square inches [...]