The Meathead Method is a comprehensive grilling/bbq tutorial guide with recipes written and curated by Meathead. Released 14th May 2025 by HarperCollins on their Wm. Morrow Harvest imprint, it's 432 pages and is available in hardcover and ebook formats. It's worth noting that the ebook format has a handy interactive table of contents as well as interactive links and references throughout.
This is an absolutely encyclopedic collection with a surprisingly thorough treatment of outdoor cooking subjects from a crash course over the human neurology and anatomy of smell & taste (interesting and -accessible- facts here), to fats, oils, starches, nutrients, moving through gear/equipment/utensils/etc (what's necessary and what's nice), and all the way to recipes for barbecue (of course), but also all the trimmings: salads, desserts, dairy, and more. ALL the meats (including seafood, fowl, red meat, white meat, and veg (yes!). He's even included a fair number of breads/grain based dishes in the book.
Recipes are written with background/descriptions, a bullet list of ingredients, and step by step prep and cooking directions. Ingredient measures are given in imperial (American) units only, no metric. Most of the ingredients will be available at pretty much any well stocked grocery store in North America. Nutritional info is not included.
All of the recipes are accompanied by one or more photos. The photography is outstanding for this collection and all the photos are clear and in color. The theory chapters are also well-illustrated with explanatory graphs and understandable captions.
The book includes a QR code which links to supplementary online info and the author's website. Very helpful and especially a huge plus for visual learners.
Five stars. No barbecue-allied subject is missed out in the book. It really is comprehensive. It would be an excellent choice for public or home library acquisition, for cookbook aficionados, cookery venues/schools and the like. Alton Brown says in the intro that it's "honestly probably the only book on outdoor cookery you'll ever need".
Disclosure: I received an ARC at no cost from the author/publisher for review purposes.
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