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Five Steps to BBQ Transcendence

Memorial Day is here. Well, no, it’s not. But it’s about to be. As is prime grilling season. Thus, we’ve gone out and found a few of the most important items in the history of the world. As it pertains to BBQ sessions, anyway. Happy Memorial Day.

FOR THAT CAMPFIRE FEEL

Cast-Iron Skewers That Resemble Twigs

You Require: A touch of nature while shish-kebab-ing on a technologically advanced grill.
You’ll Receive: Four cast-iron skewers shaped like tiny tree branches, which you’ll pierce through meats and peppers (and more meats). Best of all: they’re nonstick. Both literally and figuratively.

FOR THE RUSHED

Bacon. Beer. Sausages. At Once.

You Require: Sausages. But... different.
You’ll Receive: Housemade links from the Bee’s Knees butchers. Only supercharged with one of the world’s finest bacons (Benton), as well as a German beer called Aecht Schlenkerla Rauchbier Urbock. We assume it means “Makes sausages more delicious.”

FOR THE GREAT OUTDOORS

A Spot for Riverside Grilling

You Require: Someplace outdoors to grill while your garden labyrinth finishes being constructed. With bocce.
You’ll Receive: The grassy, 13.2-acre Arsenal Park in Watertown. Via a permit, you can rent out the volleyball and bocce courts, or take command of one of the riverside charcoal grills. This is the future of grilling.

FOR THE EXOTIC

Grill-Ready Buffalo from South Dakota

You Require: Something exotic.
You’ll Receive: Thick cuts of hormone-free and humanely raised bison, which grew up on a single farm in South Dakota (where the buffalo roam). You’ll pick them up at a New Hampshire butcher shop, where they also have alligator. Probably not from South Dakota.

FOR ’MERICA

A Spatula as Patriotic as You

You Require: A meat-flipper that John Adams would appreciate.
You’ll Receive: An American walnut-handled, stainless-steel spatula cut like Old Glory herself. Bonus: it’s handmade along a river in Massachusetts, in the oldest cutlery factory in the US. You just know Toby Keith has a drawer full of these.