Dear Grill: Great Work! Love, Summer 2025 ☀️


Hi Reader,

I know how easy it is to overthink cookouts.

You want to impress, but you also don’t want to spend your whole day managing the grill.

Summer Cookout Classics

Turns out, when your grill game’s strong, summer doesn’t want you to stop.

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Grilled Porterhouse Steak

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 4.84 from 12 votes
This grilled porterhouse steak is impressive yet easy to make and arguably the best way to make a porterhouse steak at home. Here's how.
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Easy Marinated Chicken Skewers

These chicken kebabs are a cinch to throw together. Whip up a flavorful honey, soy, and chile marinade, let the pieces of chicken thigh soak up all that flavor, and then quickly grill or broil.
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Korean-Style BBQ Ribs

Korean-style BBQ ribs are sticky, sweet, and tangy. Ginger, honey, brown sugar, and vinegar come together to infuse juicy ribs with Korean flavors. They're cooked in foil so the cleanup is easy-peasy, too.
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Barbecued Beef Back Ribs

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 4.83 from 35 votes
These barbecued beef back ribs are easy to make. They're coated with a homemade spice rub and slowly grilled to perfection.
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Slow Cooker Pulled Pork

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 4.79 from 14 votes
This slow cooker pulled pork is easy to make with pork shoulder, aka pork butt, onion, beer, sugar, and spices, and it capably feeds a crowd. (Just be certain to stash some in the back of the fridge so you have leftovers.)
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Bobby Flay’s Barbecue Sauce

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 4.86 from 21 votes
I created this barbecue sauce to top the Wyoming burger, but it's also an ideal dipping sauce for French fries. After you've made this quick and easy sauce once, you'll want to slather it on grilled chicken, steak, pork chops...you might never go back to the bottled stuff.
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Pressure Cooker Ribs

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 4.79 from 66 votes
These pressure cooker ribs, which are easy and ideal for the Instant Pot, are finished in the oven with a brown sugar and Dijon glaze. It's a super-fast method for knee-wobbling, lip-smacking, fall-off-the-bone tenderness.
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French Onion Brisket

This recipe is my way of taking poetic license with brisket, drawing inspiration from French onion soup for a braising liquid of caramelized onions and garlic, deglazed with apple brandy.
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Roasted Potatoes On The Grill

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 4.82 from 16 votes
These grilled potatoes are a cinch to make--simply potatoes, garlic, oil, and rosemary—that turn crispy on the outside, blissfully tender on the inside.
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Grilled Scallops

These easy grilled scallops come together quickly after a brief marinade in citrus, chile, garlic, soy sauce, and olive oil. They are seared in a cast iron skillet and can be made on a gas, charcoal, or pellet grill or smoker.
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