HOT From The Pit! - June 23, 2018 

Summer in the northern hemisphere is upon us! Even though BBQ really knows no off-season, it's safe to say the majority of us will cook a little bit more in the warmth of our back yards, patios, decks, and balconies when we're swatting flies instead of snowflakes. So let's get fired up and push BBQ season into high gear together with the June 2018 edition of HOT From The Pit! 

June's Gold Medal Giveaway Winner!

June's Gold Medal Giveaway random winner is Erik Olsen, a.k.a. DocVadr! " I’ve read all the reviews about 10 times now but keep coming back to Meathead’s favorite grill. I’d say it’s definitely time to get into the charcoal game so I’m going to go with the Hasty Bake. Give me a month or so to figure it out then you can all come over for some Tri-tip!" Something tells me happy little doggo will be first in line to share that tri-tip! Yep, Erik chose the Hasty-Bake Gourmet 256 Dual Finish Charcoal Grill, MSRP $1,399 . In addition, Erik (and every monthly winner) also gets a 12-bottle case of Max Good's Black Swan Gourmet BBQ Sauce!

Wish him a congratulations in his Pit announcement topic here!

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Show Us What You're Cooking!

With Memorial Day behind us, summer officially on, and July 4th just ahead, what better time frame to enjoy some killer BBQ shots than now? This is merely a sampling of the many wonderful pictures of food our members have shared, there's far more in the thread itself. These highlights are from our now-closed Spring 2018 Show Us What You're Cooking topic dating from late-May to mid-June 2018.

Kicking it off is this awesome shot from Jon Solberg- ribs cooking in perhaps an unconventional way, asadore style!

An excellent picture of a plate full o' ribs from goosebr160

More ribs from JakeT, just look at the moisture in these!

Ribs again! This time from bbqoaf

Lamb burgers with a yogurt/feta/parsley spread from ILikePigButts. Gorgeous!

An outstanding Reuben from homemade sous-vide pastrami then griddled up to perfection, courtesy of barelfly

Winner winner chicken dinner from fzxdoc cooked on her Weber Summit Charcoal grill

Look at this beast-  a custom made 4-burner flat top griddle  for  Sfdrew28!

More chicken, this beautiful spatchcocked bird is from Charter Member Onez

More beautiful spatchcocked birds, this time from FishTalesNC

A stunning hanger steak from moderator Henrik

WOW! What a bark on that brisket from HJS

Another amazing brisket, this one from Charter Member IrondeQuer

Moderator Jerod Broussard doesn't disappoint with his last of 15 briskets from his latest large cook. With all that practice it's no wonder they look this good.

Homemade pizza on the Weber gasser from mbelang

Another killer homemade pizza shot, this one from MBMorgan

Caprese-stuffed mushroom appetizers from new member Kieferr

Livermoron is searing his tri tip over the firebox on his KBQ. "The flavor is unreal", he says.

Nothin' wrong with this burger loaded with fixings from JTpellets

A mouth-watering ribeye from Joetee!

A gorgeous shot of freshly baked beer bread from Pequod and his "steam oven"

"Lambie pops" from Mudkat

Bark-a-licious pork butts from Slieb845

Cookbook-worthy photo of a tantalizing beef rib from moderator Spinaker

smokenoob all ready to smoke some salmon on his pellet cooker

Here's Skip's sous vide & charcoal-seared tri tip with board sauce

Here's a stir-fry griddle dish called "lomo saltado" from Sfdrew28. Yep, those are french fries in there!

Your assignment- sharpen up your photography skills & make it hard on me to pick which pics make the cut next month! As always, this was by no means ALL of the great shots from the past month, there are many more! The above photos are from our now-retired Volume 9, Spring 2018 topic. Be sure to visit our new Show Us What You're Cooking- Volume 10, Summer 2018 and share your food pics!

Thinking Of Competing?

If you compete, we'd love for you to hand out free trial membership/temp guide cards at competitions. If you'd like to help, send a note to Paul Sidoriak ( allsid in The Pit) at paul@amazingribs.com and he'll send you a pack of 100 (or more).

New Pitmaster Awards for Thermometers!

If you haven't had the chance to scan through it yet, be sure to check out our new 2018 AmazingRibs.com Pitmaster Awards for Best Cooking Thermometers as selected by our electrical engineer & thermometer guru, Bill McGrath.

Also, don't miss Bill's recent reviews on these other brand new thermometers:

Maverick XR-50 Remote 4-Probe Radio Frequency (RF) Remote Thermometer

Ink Bird IBT-4XS 4-Probe Bluetooth (BT) Remote Thermometer

Maverick Pocket Knife PT-60

Watch For Charcoal Sales Soon!

July 4th is just around the corner, and this means Kingsford charcoal will soon be on sale again! In years past such sales have repeatedly brought us a 50% price drop for about a week on the twin 18.6 lb packs of charcoal during the US summer holidays (Memorial Day, July 4th, and Labor Day), and since we saw the sale a few weeks back for Memorial Day, this year appears no different.

Catch Up On The PitCasts

Don't forget to learn a little about your fellow Pit members and others in the BBQ biz by listening to Greg Rempe's recent weekly interviews on his members only PitCasts, posted each week on Thursday in the PitCast with Greg Rempe channel.

Here are the most recent interviews: June 21st Meathead on "The state of AmazingRibs.com/Member Questions" PART I June 14th The 2018 BBQ Hall of Fame (and steak rant) episode June 7th How to make your own lump charcoal - Jon Solberg interview May 31st The "texastweeter" interview

Greg Rempe wants to hear from YOU! Drop by Greg's Pit topic and volunteer to be a guest on his PitCast show so you can tell us about yourself, your cooking inspiration(s), your goals and so on. He makes it easy & he makes it fun.

Give A Friend A Free Trial Membership

If you have a friend, family member, co-worker or neighbor who loves BBQ, loves your BBQ, wants to get into BBQ, or even just has a grill and you think they'd love an account, send them to http://amazingribs.com/pitmaster, and all they have to do is click the red Join button and type " MemberSentMe" (one word) in the Coupon box! They will NOT have to enter a credit card. Limit 1 trial membership per person, non-members only. After about two months we will send them a notice that they have about three weeks left and if they wish to remain a member they will have to pay. They will get another reminder when the 90 days is up. Spread the love and get your buddies in here in our wonderful community!

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"HOT From The Pit" is the exclusive members only monthly newsletter of the AmazingRibs.com Pitmaster Club from Aaron "Huskee" Lyons, Manager of the Pitmaster Club. You're receiving this because you're awesome and you're a member of the Club! For past issues check out the newsletter archive in The Pit.

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