Fire School
Cooking on Kiawe Planks
A board between the food and the fire. The gentlest way wood flavor gets into anything.Plank cooking puts a soaked hardwood board on the grate and the food on the...
Cooking on Kiawe Planks
A board between the food and the fire. The gentlest way wood flavor gets into anything.Plank cooking puts a soaked hardwood board on the grate and the food on the...
Burning Kiawe in a Pizza Oven
800°F, ninety-second bakes, and a wood that brings sweetness to the crust.A wood-fired oven cooks by three routes at once: conduction from the hot floor, radiant heat from the dome,...
Burning Kiawe in a Pizza Oven
800°F, ninety-second bakes, and a wood that brings sweetness to the crust.A wood-fired oven cooks by three routes at once: conduction from the hot floor, radiant heat from the dome,...
The Imu: Cooking in the Ground with Kiawe
The oldest Hawaiian cooking method, and the one that made kiawe famous in the first place.An imu is an underground oven: a pit dug in the earth, lined with stones,...
The Imu: Cooking in the Ground with Kiawe
The oldest Hawaiian cooking method, and the one that made kiawe famous in the first place.An imu is an underground oven: a pit dug in the earth, lined with stones,...
Cooking with Kiawe on a Santa Maria Pit
An open pit and a crank wheel. Heat control is vertical, and that is the entire technique.Santa Maria style came out of California's Central Coast ranch barbecues, where tri-tip was...
Cooking with Kiawe on a Santa Maria Pit
An open pit and a crank wheel. Heat control is vertical, and that is the entire technique.Santa Maria style came out of California's Central Coast ranch barbecues, where tri-tip was...
Cooking with Kiawe on a Parrilla
Burn wood in one place, cook over the coals somewhere else. The oldest idea in fire cooking.An Argentine parrilla separates the fire from the cooking. Wood burns down in a...
Cooking with Kiawe on a Parrilla
Burn wood in one place, cook over the coals somewhere else. The oldest idea in fire cooking.An Argentine parrilla separates the fire from the cooking. Wood burns down in a...
Smoking with Kiawe on an Offset Smoker
A live fire in a side box, and the only rig here where tending the fire is the whole job.An offset burns wood as fuel, not as seasoning. A fire...
Smoking with Kiawe on an Offset Smoker
A live fire in a side box, and the only rig here where tending the fire is the whole job.An offset burns wood as fuel, not as seasoning. A fire...