Barbecue

While some people really enjoy barbecuing, others simply want grilled meat that isn't burnt on the outside and raw on the inside. The Perfecta grill should appeal to the latter group, as it uses AI to "perfectly" cook meat in three minutes or less.

Barbecue is serious business, and some of the most serious about it hail from Texas. Chemist Jeremiah Gassensmith insists that while it's as much an art as a science, knowing more about the "circus of chemicals" can help anyone master a brisket.

Foldable grills come in all shapes and sizes these days but the newly launched Caveman is a neat and particularly portable option, which can feed eight people and fold flat into a laptop-like package that slips right into your backpack.

Snow Peak's new Smokemeister barbecue packs the capabilities of larger smokers into a trunk-friendly package, with easy setup once at camp for meat lovers on the move.

​It's nice to be able to cycle to a picnic in the park, but what happens if you want to take your barbecue with you? Well, you could try towing a full-size model behind your bike, or you could just get the compact (but extendible) handlebar-mounted Knister Grill.

The basic barbecue grill layout tends to be the same: a horizontal grate set over top a heat source. Copenhagen Trade thinks it's time to blow that mold up and replace it with a three dimensional grill box that cooks food from the sides, as well as the top.

Inspired by a retro dive watch, the GrillTimer has a bezel-style timer. The big difference is that it displays cooking times for eight popular barbecue items.