Hot Coals: A User's Guide to Mastering Your Kamado Grill

A great book for any body that has a kamado style grill. It goes over the history of the kamado grill and talks about the various brands out there. It explains how they work and does so without only talking about one brand. They do a great job explaining the various models and their accessories. Love how it tells you how to cook on a kamado and what accessories you should have in a way that no matter what brand you bought you know how to disk your grill in for that type of cook. A great resource to have even if you didn’t buy the big green egg.

This book does exactly what it advertises, and does it really really well. It gives you all the knowledge you need to effectively use your kamado. It describes each part of the kamado, what it does and how it is used. It takes you through starting it up, shutting it down, and managing the temperature. It also takes you through the suggested maintenance, and safety tips. And lots more. It even talks a lot about theory of achieving various tastes and different ways you can use the kamado to cook the same meat (or whatever) differently. Oh yes, and it does throw in some meat-and-potatoes sorts of recipes, which honestly is exactly what I wanted as a noob. So kudos to the author. This is one of the best technique books I've read on grilling or bbq, and the fact that it is focused strictly on the kamado makes it a must-have book for new kamado users. And incidentally, I did my first cook this week, and it turned out surprisingly well (lots of room for improvement, but the food is already really good, based mostly on tips and techniques from this book). The complaints about it not having enough recipes is silly imo. That's now what this book is about, it's just a really kick-butt book on techniques.

This book does a very nice job explaining the concepts of kamado cooking. It has some recipes at the end, but the real value is helping you understand the hows and whys of a kamado. Good info here.

My husband bought a Kamado over a year ago and has used it with mixed results. It wasn't until I bought him this book for Father's Day that he truly understood how to best manage the coals and heat. The book has a great explanation on understanding the ins and outs of the grill and how to use it for the best results. There are some good recipes included, and we're excited to try them all. It's made such a difference!

Perfect book for Kamado owners to understand the dynamic of that particular grill and how to best manipulate it. I prefer reading over videos. Concise yet precise, well illustrated a few but very interesting recipes I did not get that Kamado for smashing burgers or grilling simple skewers : a regular BBQ can do that. I got the grill for an elaborated cooking : smoking, low temp cooking, brisket, pizza, bread, roasting high temp etc… This is what’s the book teaches you. I really recommend it.

Good informational book but had hoped for more recipes.

Unlike most other BGE/Kamado books, this one is not mostly hawking accessories. Rather, it supplies a LOT of useful information about Kamados and how to use them. It uses recipes to illustrate how techniques affect results. If you want to learn kamado cooking quickly, this is the one book to buy.

It's a good read especially if you are interested in the history and development of the kamado from it's beginnings as a simple rock lined pit dug in the ground to the ceramic cookers of today. The book included quite a few recipes which mostly looked great to try. Interestingly, there are quite a few recepes for wild game. I don't have access to exotic meat but for those who do they might be want to consider trying them. I tried substituting meat found in the supermarkets ( lamb, beef, chicken) for some of the meats with good results.

You want to understand how a Kamado works, get tips on settings etc. Buy it. Very useful.

This is an interesting, well-written, quality book. Its greatest contribution to kamado cooking knowledge is in its description of the dynamics of kamado cooking which all users need to understand. The recipes are also interesting, albeit not the principal focus of the work which is made clear by the authors.

Having purchased my Kamado grill I randomly bought three books to help me get going. This was by far the best of them! Rather than giving just a list of recipes, it gives the history of this type of grill and the different makes of them. It then goes on to explain how they work and how to set them up and use them for all the different ways of cooking on them along with recipes for each type of cooking. Without it, it would have taken me much longer to become proficient at cooking on my Monolith Kamado and I can now confidently tackle the lists of recipes in the other books. A well recommended read for beginners and existing users alike!!

Very detailed and well written. Good for beginners like myself and plenty of advanced information for the more experienced . I would put it in a must have list.

I bought this book after getting my Kamado grill. NOT A BBQ BOOK! But is good if you want to know what your Kamado can really do outside of smoking or grilling and goes into detail about how the kamado functions. An informative and interetesting read.