Signature Cooks

Kiawe wood chunks for smoking Hawaiian guava sticky ribs low and slow

Hawaiian Guava Sticky Ribs

5 hrs · Intermediate · Serves 4Guava grows wild across the islands and its jam belongs on ribs the way honey belongs on biscuits. Sweet kiawe smoke for four hours,...

Hawaiian Guava Sticky Ribs

5 hrs · Intermediate · Serves 4Guava grows wild across the islands and its jam belongs on ribs the way honey belongs on biscuits. Sweet kiawe smoke for four hours,...

Kiawe wood chunks — 20 lb bag, the fuel for low-and-slow kalua pork

Kalua-Style Pulled Pork

10+ hrs · Intermediate · Serves 10Kalua literally means 'to cook in the pit.' For centuries Hawaiians buried whole pigs over kiawe coals and hot stones, wrapped in banana leaves....

Kalua-Style Pulled Pork

10+ hrs · Intermediate · Serves 10Kalua literally means 'to cook in the pit.' For centuries Hawaiians buried whole pigs over kiawe coals and hot stones, wrapped in banana leaves....

Hawaiian kiawe wood fire — the burn behind huli huli chicken

Huli Huli Chicken

45 min + marinade · Easy · Serves 4Born at a Hawaii fundraiser in 1955, huli huli chicken is the smell of every island roadside stand worth pulling over for....

Huli Huli Chicken

45 min + marinade · Easy · Serves 4Born at a Hawaii fundraiser in 1955, huli huli chicken is the smell of every island roadside stand worth pulling over for....

Guava-glazed steak with island shoyu lacquer served over coconut rice, Hawaiian plate-lunch style

Guava-Glazed Steak with Coconut Rice

30 min · Easy · Serves 2Shoyu arrived with Japanese plantation workers in the 1880s and guava grows half-wild across the islands — together they’re the sweet-savory heart of Hawaiian...

Guava-Glazed Steak with Coconut Rice

30 min · Easy · Serves 2Shoyu arrived with Japanese plantation workers in the 1880s and guava grows half-wild across the islands — together they’re the sweet-savory heart of Hawaiian...

Kiawe-smoked huli huli beef ribs with Hawaiian pineapple-shoyu glaze, rested on butcher paper

Huli Huli Beef Ribs on the Gas Grill

5 hrs · Intermediate · Feeds 4 · Cooked on a plain gas grillHuli huli is Hawaii’s most famous fire glaze — born at a 1955 farm fundraiser where chicken...

Huli Huli Beef Ribs on the Gas Grill

5 hrs · Intermediate · Feeds 4 · Cooked on a plain gas grillHuli huli is Hawaii’s most famous fire glaze — born at a 1955 farm fundraiser where chicken...

Kiawe wood chunks

The Founder's Aloha Pastor

Overnight marinade + 1 hr smoke + the spin · Intermediate · Feeds 8 Al pastor was always halfway to Hawaii — pineapple in the marinade, a pineapple crown on...

The Founder's Aloha Pastor

Overnight marinade + 1 hr smoke + the spin · Intermediate · Feeds 8 Al pastor was always halfway to Hawaii — pineapple in the marinade, a pineapple crown on...