Kalamazoo Outdoor Gourmet News and Press

Food & Wine Magazine
June, 2006

In this issue Steven Raichlen picks our Bread Breaker™ Two Dual-Fuel Grill to his top seven list. We had the pleasure of grilling with him on one, and he recommended it based on its outstanding overall cooking performance and its ability to cook with charcoal, hardwood and gas — switching seamlessly between any combination of grilling fuels.

The Bread Breaker™ Two Dual-Fuel Grill features 154,000 BTUs of total cooking power, a cooking surface measuring a massive 6 square feet, side by side gourmet hybrid grilling system drawers, and all the advantages of a Kalamazoo grill.

Steve Raichlen's Favorite Grills

Most people own one grill. Steven Raichlen, author of The Barbecue Bible and host of PBS's Barbecue University, has 60. Here, his favorites...

Kalamazoo Bread Breaker Two Dual-Fuel

If grills were cars, this 500-pound machine would be a Hummer. What makes it so ingenious is that it can burn gas, charcoal or wood. $11,290; kalamazoogourmet.com...

Steven Raichlen's Top Grill Recipes

Steven Raichlen uses a particular grill to make each of the recipes below—but he's adapted them all so any basic charcoal or gas will deliver fantastic results....

Kalamazoo Bread Breaker Two Dual-Fuel

the grill Made from 500 pounds of laser-cut steel, the Kalamazoo is crafted by a fourth-generation metal master whose great-grandfather manufactured one of the first grills in the United States. The most remarkable feature of this machine is its fuel system, which can burn gas, charcoal and hardwood.

the recipe These thick T-bone steaks, rubbed with spicy-smoky chipotle powder and topped with a high-voltage Chilean pepper-tomato salsa, reach their flavor apotheosis when cooked over wood. That's because hickory, oak and other hardwoods burn hot, imparting the fragrant scent of wood smoke to the meat...

For more of his brilliant grilling ideas, go to foodandwine.com/raichlen.