Author name: L.R.

Last week I talked about some of the basic things I learned during my first 10 cooks (including the definition of “cook”).  This week I dive deeper, maybe (maybe) getting more philosophical… Lessons Five through One 5/  Facebook is a fickle master For the first two or three cooks I was able to announce the

Blind Spots My definition of blind spot: you don’t know what you don’t know. When I dove into barbecue I most definitely didn’t know what I didn’t know. I’m sure that was part of the appeal – a whole new world to explore and learn about. There are occasional periods in life when I’m content

Grilling is NOT barbecue The terms “grilling” and “barbecue” are used interchangeably by most people but they are most definitely not the same. Technically (and loosely speaking), grilling is cooking food using radiant heat (which is also what happens when you broil a steak in your oven). Radiant heat transfers energy in wave form and

http://rangtangbbq.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/Wood-fired-Barbecue.mp4 Starting somewhere As I write this in late January 2021 I’m getting ready to spend a month in Texas at a few different barbecue ‘joints’. In the few months that I’ve been smoking meat on a regular basis I can safely say that my knowledge has gone from zero to…non-zero…but I know that I

If you’re curious about where the idea for a barbecue restaurant came from, check out Our Story.   I thought it would be fun and maybe informative to document the journey of opening this barbecue truck/trailer/restaurant/whatever-it-turns-out-to-be. Instagram might be a better medium (and I’ll post there when so moved), but I’m not the best at