In this episode my guests Lloydd Capuccia and Kevin Liddell discuss seasonings and sauces, and how they interact with food and our taste buds. Over thousands of years we have developed the human palette but our tongues have tastebuds for a more basic purpose.. Survival!  Check out the Fire & Water Cooking Seasonings on Amazon, Walmart.com, or my website HERE - https://www.fireandwatercooking.com/online-store/Fire-and-Water-Cooking-Edible-Creations-Gourmet-Products-c138134063  Get Your Personalized Full Color Paperback or Hard Cover Copy of the Fire & Water Cooking Cookbook ..read more

I stumbled onto Gubba a few months ago when I was looking for Freeze Dryer content on YouTube, and I got hooked on her Style! Gubba is a Gaming Streamer that has branched out into other things such as music, books, and even prepping and homesteading! She is very different from most content creators her age as she is very "modest" and honest. wether she is playing a heated game of Fortnite or learning how to milk her dairy cow, she has the same wholesome attitude and nature. We discuss how she got started and where she is going!  Check out all things Gubba on her website HERE - www.gubbat ..read more

In this episode I talk with Chef Andy Husbands who has had a very interesting career. From being on "Hells Kitchen" to owning and running an award winning fine dining restaurant in Boston, authoring 6 cookbooks, to winning the Jack Daniels World championship of BBQ and much more! Check out all Andy has going on at his website www.andyhusbands.com or you can check out his restaurants here  https://thesmokeshopbbq.com/ Check out our new Fire & Water Cooking Rubs and Seasonings and other products at our website https://www.fireandwatercooking.com/online-store  ..read more

In this episode I invite my friends Lloyd Cuppucia and Scott Smith on to discuss the MasterBuilt 1050 Gravity Smoker/Grill and their experience with the grill quality and the modifications they do to them. Although this grill does put out some great food, the build quality is not the greatest for sure. Below are a couple of the websites we discuss that carry a lot of products for these grills to make them much better. There is a whole cottage business to make these grills better! https://www.lss-mods.com/ https://klotesmods.com/ Get Your Personalized Full Color Paperback or Hard Cover Copy ..read more

If you have not heard of Black Garlic, you will be please with this podcast episode! Dr Elizabeth Latham is the owner of "The Black Garlic Company" based in Texas. We discuss how she left her career as a collage professor to chase her Black Garlic dreams! She explains what black garlic is, the health benefits, and pretty much all you need to know about this "Super Food" and awesome Seasoning! You can find her "100% Made in America" Black Garlic products on the fire and water cooking website along with some of our own unique seasoning blends using her black garlic powder! https://www.fireandwa ..read more

Technology and cooking mix well together! Chef Owen Wyatt started out as a busboy and worked his way up to Chef Thomas Keller's staff,  but then changed gears and went to work helping to develop the "Hestan Cue" Smart Induction Cooking system. He is now with an exciting start up company "Typhur" that promises to bring more innovative and useful products to the home cook. Make sure you follow Typhur on their social media below. https://www.facebook.com/TyphurCulinary https://www.instagram.com/typhur_culinary/?hl=en https://twitter.com/typhur Check out the Thermoworks Thermometers and Tem ..read more

We are Back! After a long hiatus, this is the 1st episode of many more to come! We will be doing at least 2 per month going forward. Here is my discussion with Mr. Jason Perlow, Long time Food blogger and tech reviewer for places like ZDnet and CNN, and a founding member of the "Modernist Food" incubator from the early 2000's "eGullet".  eGullet was a bulletin board message group where people of all cooking skill levels would collaborate on such things as sous vide and many other food related topics. People such as Anthony Bourdaine, Chris Young from ChefSteps, Nathan Myhrvold of Modernis ..read more

I invite my friends Kevin Liddell and Lloyd Cupuccia to discuss food preservation and retort canning. JVR Industries has introduced a new sealer bar for their popular Vac100 chamber sealer that will work for Retort and Mylar bags. This seal bar does a more concentrated and deeper seal so it will work with the 7 mil speciality bags for much longer food preservation. Check out the JVR Vac100 Chamber sealer HERE and you can also pick up the special retort seal bar for an extra $50 - https://jvrinc.com/product-category/packaging-equipment/vac100/ref/2/ Get Your Personalized Full Color Paperback ..read more

One of the most favorite smokers that AmazingRibs owner Meathead Goldwyn has ever owned is the Karubecue C-60. I have also discussed this smoker with people like John Setzler of Man Cave Meals,  Chris Young of Modernist Cuisine & ChefSteps, and Douglas Baldwin. They all rave about this very unique smoker! Join me in my discussion with the owner and inventor Bill Karau as find out the hows and why he created this amazing wood fired smoker! Find out more about the KBQ C-60 HERE -  https://kbq.us/ You can Purchase the KBQ C-60 on Amazon with free shipping HERE - https://amzn.to/3w ..read more

Check out my discussion with Chef Candace Conley and Natalia Banjac of the cooking school "The Girl Can Cook" and the podcast "Not a single fork" as we discuss how they got started and where they are going! Chef Candace has a PHD in Psychology and has an interesting path on how she got into cooking and teaching! Check out their website HERE- https://www.thegirlcancookschool.com/ Check out their Podcast "Not A Single Fork" HERE -  https://www.notasinglefork.com/ if you love Fresh Organic spices, you MUST try FreshJax Organic Seasonings and spices! All of their products are superior qual ..read more