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Our flagship grill is going through more changes. The Original Braten 1000 series is the multiple award winning grill that is used by celebrity, professional and backyard chefs. It has been in production for 16 years and has gone through four generations. Each generation we look back and wonder how can we build it better. The Gen 4 revisions focused on customer feedback. Alongside that, for the past 15 years we've done our own testing on the 1000 series. For our own testing, every person that works here has a 1000 series at their own house to use personally. We cook...

Just like other industries, we are not immune to the supply issues facing all of us. It's immensely frustrating. In the past year we've had to redesign components or figure out a different way to manufacture a component, or can't get the material or supplies, or the material is way higher. Like Willie Nelson and Snoop Dogg having a party high. Or, we just wait for a supplier dealing with their own supply chain issues. And it's items we never thought would be an issue from companies we've used for years to decades. Two suppliers (listing off the top of...

The benefits of working in a grill manufacturing shop.  Chunks of pork shoulder. Lightly seasoned with seasoned salt and black pepper. Smoked with apple logs for two hours at 275. Then seared to crisp the bark. Topped with the flavor of the day sauce (it's a random pick, we try a variety, today was a Carolina style sauce). Then close the vents and lid. Let sit away from the fire for 1/2 hour to bake the sauce. With the vents and lid closed the temp raised to 375. Which is what I want. Heavy wood smoke at the end for...

I don't care what it's called. I just want to get to a day where it doesn't get spoken of again.  There's always going to be issues to overcome and challenges that test us. But this one, f**k this one. We started this thinking in two weeks we were done. Then a month. Then maybe by July we would be clear. Now we're talking maybe sometime next year.  But just like other business' we have employees, customers, people that we need to take care of. We have to keep the chain moving somehow. In some way keep the gears turning...

It's always neat to see grill pics at their home. Even neater when the grill's home is in another country, as in nowhere near here. This one is sitting in Dubai and I thought it was a neat pic. Far removed from the cornfields it was built in. Thank you Sunder for allowing us to share.