A super-fast Thermapen giveaway to give honor to those of us who are year-round grillers! Labor day is not the end, just the beginning of grilling season!
I’m really excited at the enthusiasm behind this contest- I got a ton of response, especially from you Egg-Headers (Big Green Egg users) and it makes me happy to hear of all your adventures cooking in all seasons. Check out the comments below and you will see that you guys have grilled in hurricanes, snow storms, and rain all because we know that nothing tastes as good as food cooked outdoors over an open flame! NOTE: Because I got so much feedback from the Egg-headers
out there, I’m in discussions with thermoworks to do an Egg-head specific giveaway! Stay Tuned!
Drum Roll Please:
The winner is Gabriel Bayley. I really likes his comment about cooking on three different fires at once!
ORIGINAL Contest verbage:
While many people think that Labor Day is the last “hurrah” of summer, the last cook-out before you put your grill away for the season- think again. There are plenty of us who grill year round, even in winter weather! This give away is for those of you who refuse to let grilling be a “season”- this is for those of use who grill year round, despite what mother nature may give us.
I’m partnering with the awesome folks at Thermoworks to give away an instant-read, water resistant, super fast Thermapen! These are the pens that you see all the competition BBQ folks using, as well as Alton Brown on the food network. All the cool kids have one and now you can to.
How to enter:
Leave a comment on my blog telling me how are you a year-round griller. Please make sure to “like my facebook page” and tweet the contest. That’s all you have to do to enter- special consideration will be given to those who have done all three and help me market this contest!
Winner will get to pick his favorite color of thermapen to be shipped to your door for year round grilling adventures with exact temperatures for perfectly cooked meat!
Contest runs until Tuesday, September 4th.
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Lookin’ to fire up a new smoker/grill this Labor Day Weekend! Would *Love* to add a THERMAPEN to my Sizzzzzle, Smoke~ and Spice!
This Midwestern Grillin’ Girl would be happy to hang w/the Big Boyz year round!!
I grill year round, even in the 20 below winter weather of Alaska. I just found your blog and will be following it.
Living in Minneapolis can be a problem for most grills in the wintertime, however the BGE has no problems with it!! Since it can do it, I feel obligated to put mine to use and I can’t complain if they (both Eggs) are out there working….. I should at least be able to go out there and check on them from time to time.
Our griiling/smoking competiion starts in feb and ends in november. We grill in between to pass the time. I used to sleep walk but that stopped and all i do now is sleep grill. I have recurring nightmares of false temperature readings due to poor thermometers, which gives me chills. I’ve got a fever, and the only prescription is more temp accuracy.
I grill year round on my three grills. No matter how cold it gets I am usually cooking outside. Would absolutely love to have a thermapen.
I use a varied version of the Postal Service motto: Neither snow, nor rain, nor heat, nor gloom of night will prevent this griller from making delectable Q.
I have a welding blanket that I throw over my smoker to keep the heat in during the cold winter days. If you don’t grill or smoke year round you are just a not a true cook who appreciates the difference in good food and GREAT food.
The best food comes from the grill/bbq so why wouldn’t you do it year round? If you didn’t, you wouldn’t be eating the best food you can for part of the year.
Besides, I’m Canadian. Cold weather does not bother me one bit. And if I didn’t bbq year round, I’d only be doing it for a few months per year
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I hope being Canadian does not work against me. Do you discriminate against Canadians?! You may think we talk funny, but we love our Q too!
I’ve been dying to get my hands on a Thermapen. It will make life so much easier when Q-ing in mid-February. And my food won’t get cold waiting for the old fashioned dial thermometer to get a reading. My wife loves grilling with me, but she sends me out in the cold to check progress in the winter.
C’mon, help me out here!
I tweeted the contest too.
I live in the “Snowbelt” of Northeast Ohio and have had to shovel 18″ of snow to the smoker or grill and un-bury them but we grill/smoke all winter – in fact it’s my favorite time to grill.
How’s that Thermapen work at 4 degress above zero ?
I’m the same way Chris- though I doubtedly have better weather in S. Fla. However, when it is “grilling season” in the summer, that is actually our hottest, wettest, most mosquito laden time of year which also happens to fall during hurricane season. While most people have to deal with extreme cold to be a year round griller, I have to deal with extreme heat!
What part of florida are you in? All my grills made it to the shed during Isaac- didn’t want to let them get damaged. congrats on getting your eggs back home!
Hi Laura- super cool to hear of a die-hard female BBQ-er out there.
Hi Karen- very cool – yes I remember your brother! I agree- it is about time you get yourself a Thermapen! They’re the best!
Your Patriot Grilling sessions sound fun!
Hi Kurt- sounds like you might live in Fla too?
Kelly- I hope you never have to grill during an Earthquake!
Chris- you are in good company- lots of Eggheads here!
Adam- that is a ton of lump charcoal- esp with the Egg as it doesn’t take a lot! I’m impressed!!!
Mark- do you know Greg Rempe from BBE Central Radio Show? He is in Cleveland as well…
Grilling with a headlamp- that’s the best. I do this myself.
4 BGEs! I’m impressed!!!
love hearing stories like this!
I live in the pacific northwest so you know I have grilling raincoat! Its a must have.
I have 2 large and a small Big Green Eggs. I cook year round for friends and family. Today I have 16 pounds of pork butts on one and getting ready to throw on a couple t-bones on another. Thanks for the giveaway!
Smoked ribs for the Super Bowl last year and grilled ribeyes for valentines dinner for my sweetheart. With a super fast I definitely wouldnt have to spend as much time outside in the awesome Minnesota winters.
Previous comment should say “super fast Thermapen”
I’m in Muchigan, near Detroit. I’ve had to clean a foot of snow off of the Big Green Egg grill cover and then throw a lit chuck of hardwood inthe ash catcher to thaw out the lid enough to get it open all in the name of ribs in January.
I am a year-round griller. The most outrageous cook I have done outdoors was last year, day after Christmas, and I smoke-roasted a Prime RIb when snow was still on the ground. Five hours after I put it in the smoker. The roast was done to temperature.
A super fast Therpen will improve my grilling by providing accuarate temps more quickly.
Thermapen ooops.
Entered above, liked you on Facebook, followed you on Twitter and tweeted about the contest. Thanks for the contest.
I grill year round because the average male life expectancy is 75.81 years. I turn 45 this month. That leaves me approximately 11,245 days to grill and smoke. If I only do it during the summer months, that really puts a dent in things. Now hurry up and win me this Thermapen before I lose another few days time!!!!!! (ha ha ha)
I also put this up on my NMT facebook page.
I love to grill all year… all you need is an umbrella sometimes!!!
Years ago my parents’ oven died on Thanksgiving Day. We cooked the turkey outdoors out of necessity. It was so good it became tradition. Living in relatively temperate North Carolina with a comfortable back yard and a Big Green Egg just makes it too easy, fun and tasty to restrict outdoor cooking to the summer months.
I’m still learning, but love the options grilling provide!
I spent most of today indoors watching chopped. Except for the heavy down poors, when I was holding an unbrella over the ribs smoking on the grill. The Thermapen would be quite nice for inclement weather!
I love to grill out year round. It helps that I live in SC so I have decent weather most of the year. But I have been out there grilling in a snow storm or in the rain.
I grill because i breathe. I grill every day the sun comes up. I grill because vegetables are what food eats. I grill because no fire is complete without meat. I grill because it keeps my family healthy, happy, and whole. But mostly, I grill to live. And as soon as my new daughter is old enough to stand on her own, and eat solid food, I’m buying her a BGE mini. But I could sure use a Thermapen to help teach her how to not overcook her steaks.
Shared contest on Facebook. Liked on Facebook. Commented on Blog. All I need now is a Thermapen and this transaction is complete! LOL P.S. My wife and I loved seeing you on Chopped! I used your entry on building a UDS as inspiration for my UDS…you go Grill Grrrl!
Thanks for the contest. Your contest was additionally promoted here http://paper.li/GaryLWest/1321770380 and his 829 followers.
I first got into BBQ and Slow Cooking in January of 2007, when we lost power due to a major icestorm in SW, Missouri. I was stupid and purched a house with an electric stove. DUH CLEAR BLUE SMOKE!!!! How was I to cook. I went ot the local store that was selling all of their meat cheap and picked up a brisket on the cheap since they were with out power as well. In Sub-Zero temps, I put that bad boy on with some charcoal and wood and low and behold it was the worse thing I ever ate!!! But I was hooked. Since then I cook at LEAST once a month with a traditional cook on the anniversry of the “Great Ice Storm of Ot 7″ I love smoking meat so much, that I host a New Years Eve party called “Last Cook, First Cook” where I do ribs in for the evening meal, and the brisket is our breakfast with eggs cooked on my pit as well… Great hangover cure!! Not only in the winter do we cook at my house, the end of July is the tradtiational “Pork of July” party at our house where I cook everything on the pit and everything has pork in it, including the pies!! Nothing better than a cold beer, or warm hot tottie and a smoking Pit. BBQ is a year round hobby and anyone that puts their grill away for the season need to get some big boy shorts!!!
I think I may have posted twice I AM SORRY!
I agree Shand. I put my big girl shorts and attempt to grill during hurricane season down here
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Robyn,
Did you cook through Isaac?
Hi Shand- all my grills were locked up in the shed preparing for the worst so I cooked inside.