A-MAZE-N Tube BBQ Smoker
What's to love: Easily add smoke flavor to whatever you are grilling. Even use it for cold smoking nuts or cheeses.
What does it do: Fill the cylinder with pellets, which may be ordered in standard flavors such as cherry, hickory, maple and oak or specialty flavors including chili pepper spice or red wine apple. Then light the pellets through a starter hole at the end of the tube. As the smoke is released, it flavors whatever is on your grill or in your smoker. The tubes come in 6-, 12- and 18-inch sizes and sell from $19.99 to $34.99. A 2-pound bag of pellets sells for $7.99 to $8.88, depending on flavor.
The SteakChamp 3-Color
What's to love: An LED indicator light lets the user know when a steak reaches the medium-rare, medium or medium-well stage.
What does it do: Stick the SteakChamp in through the side of the steak and it will monitor the core temperature throughout cooking and even let you know when the meat is finished resting. The temperature of the steak's core is detected along the whole length of the stainless-steel thermometer. The light will flash when the steak reaches the various degrees of doneness -- green for medium-rare, yellow for medium and red for medium-well. The stainless-steel SteakChamp sells for $59.95.
-- Cary Jenkins
HomeStyle on 05/23/2015