Steven Raichlen

Yeah.

Speaking of flat top cooking, uh, I've even told you this, this is a unveiling where we booked Steven Raichlen for, on the show for, um, the second week of November.

Mm-hmm.

So, uh, he wrote, wrote a book about c- cooking on a f- on flat tops, and he's-

Mike Milewski here at Big Cabbage Radio in Palmer, Alaska.

It's my great pleasure to welcome an author on the line, Steven Raichlen, who has a book out.

He's done many books, but this one, Man on Fire: Of Life, Love, Literature, and Really Good Barbecue, A Memoir.

Welcome, Steven.

And I'm not gonna perseverate on that, but I'm going to say that you have an incredible [laughs] variety of barbecue involvement.

Maybe just summarize briefly for our listeners so they'll have some sense of who they're listening to.

Well, my name is Steven Raichlen again.

I, uh, broke into the barbecue scene many years ago with a book called The Barbecue Bible, which quite amazingly is still, 28 years later, still in print.

Um, and I, I asked people, you know, not to commit to do a review, but just simply, you know, give me feedback upon, on what they thought.

Um, actually, going back, uh, even before I met you, I sent a, a very early draft, early prototype to, uh, Steve Raichlen, who, uh, who got back to me and said, "You know, this has got possibilities, but here's what I don't like."

Hmm.

And I promptly reinvented the product based upon his suggestions, his feedback.

But, but of course, uh, I, uh, the goal was to not just provide the mechanical advantage of, of chain mail, uh, and not just any chain mail, but square wire chain mail, which again, it was very hard to figure out how to turn that into, you know, into welded finished product, but we designed the product so that it could work at high temperature.

So you're combining the power of steam with the mechanical advantage of chain mail, and I think that's why, uh, people really like it.

Um, uh, uh, a- as you know, not only does Steve Raichlen say it's the best, but a couple weeks ago, um, I'm proud to say that Bon Appétit, uh, in their review of all of the, uh, existing barbecue, um, um, uh, brushes, they came out and named the GrillFighter the best grill brush overall, it basically in the universe.

Nice.