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Gadget of The Month
Eggheads who want to fire up fast will love this gadget.
The Eggcelerator is an electronic bellow that forces air into the firebox of your egg. Cut down your start time by half or less and reach temperatures not capable by natural draft alone. Battery powered so it goes where you need it but also has a plug for a 12 volt cord (not included).
This is a device we use regularly at the shop.
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An Exciting New Year!
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 What a fun year 2011 was. We had the fortunate opportunity to see many of you at the Home and Garden Show as well as our Grilling Class Series. We had our first annual Buckeye Barbeque Battle. We made new friends and customers this fall ready to make the leap to high-efficiency vent less gas logs and the like. Big Green Egg fanatics and their loved ones were a regular sight this November and December grabbing items for family dinners and gifts. Looking back makes us realize how truly blessed we are as a company to call many of you friends as well as clients.
We have high expectations that 2012 will be just as fun and exciting as the previous year. That is why we have decided to bolster our calendar events by adding a fourth Grilling Class, starting off the season in May rather than June. Final dates and special guests will be announced
in the upcoming months.
The Buckeye Barbeque Battle was such a resounding hit that we will of course be doing it again making things bigger and better. Maybe a little live entertainment? It's all in the works.
Of course, Winter's end and Spring's beginning start off with the always huge Home and Garden Show, of which we will be in attendance (and likely raffling off another grill or grills).
We hope you have a happy, healthy and prosperous New Year. We can't wait to share it with all of you!
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| Change is a Beautiful Thing |
For too long glass fireplace enclosures have been relegated to mostly wood burning situations, leaving the functionality of doors a bit of a misnomer in the gas log world, especially vent free and direct vent applications. This is rapidly changing as door manufacturers are addressing the problem with a series of reface kits and mesh door options.
Mesh Doors
Vent free logs and glass fireplace doors were never truly designed to work harmoniously as you must open the doors every time the fireplace burners are turned on. While true with vented logs as well, doors still served as a barrier from leaky dampers that would allow down drafts. Adding a remote to either of these systems becomes a bit of a redundancy, as one must get up to open the doors before even pressing the button on the remote. Stupid, right?
Thankfully Thermo-Rite and Portland Willamette, two of the nations largest glass door manufacturers, have designed a series of doors with a mesh-instead-of-glass option with as many finish choices as the standard enclosures.
  
Not only beautiful, these solid mesh doors help keep out anything, or anyone, you don't want accessing the fireplace, making this a viable barrier for kids and pets. It's also a great finishing product for a bare opening and the look that can help a tie a room together.
Pre-fab Reface Kits
Pre-fabricated, or metal fireboxes, have long suffered from a lack of options in the door market and for older tired looking units the doors never covered unsightly dents and dings on the facia. Direct Vents (solid glass front) fireplaces had even fewer avenues to enhance or alter their often times bland appearances.
The Renewal doors series by PW and Reface doors from Thermo-Rite are the perfect solution for the discerning decorator dealing with a well-loved pre-fabricated fireplace front. Just see the before and after below.
Transformation can be gorgeous, no?
So if you've purchased a new home with a lack luster fireplace, or have just been staring at the same old tired look, a custom door reface is an economical and non-invasive solution to these problems.
As fireplaces evolve, so too must the accessories that help complete a project. Want to see a real-life transformation? Stop by and see us. We have many of these units on display for your very own fireplace enclosure test-drive.
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Recipe's Return
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Ingredients
- 1 (5 pound) whole beef tenderloin
- 6 tablespoons olive oil
- 8 large garlic cloves, minced
- 2 tablespoons minced fresh rosemary
- 1 tablespoon dried thyme leaves
- 2 tablespoons coarsely ground black pepper
- 1 tablespoon salt
Directions
- Prepare beef: Trim off excess fat with a sharp knife. Fold thin tip end under to approximate the thickness of the rest of the roast. Tie with butcher's twine, then keep tying the roast with twine every 11/2 to 2 inches (to help the roast keep its shape). Snip silver skin with scissors to keep roast from bowing during cooking. Then, mix oil, garlic, rosemary, thyme, pepper and salt; rub over roast to coat. Set meat aside.
- Either build a charcoal fire in half the grill or turn all gas burners on high for 10 minutes. Lubricate grate with an oil-soaked rag using tongs. Place beef on hot rack and close lid; grill until well-seared, about 5 minutes. Turn meat and close lid; grill until well-seared on second side, another 5 minutes.
- Move meat to the charcoal grill's cool side, or turn off burner directly underneath the meat and turn remaining one or two burners (depending on grill style) to medium. Cook until a meat thermometer inserted in the thickest section registers 130 degrees for rosy pink, 45 to 60 minutes, depending on tenderloin size and grill. Let meat rest 15 minutes before carving.
Footnotes
Copyright 2006 USA WEEKEND and columnist Pam Anderson. All rights reserved. allrecipes.com
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