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2010-09-03 Grill it, smoke it, or roast it Appliances and Kitchen Gadgets - CNET Blogs

Through a variety of accessories the multicooker provides you with the capability to create distinctly different meals with one device. A roasting basket (with lifting hook) provides ample room in the three-foot tall appliance while a stainless steel smoker box extends capability by letting you flavor food with either wood chips or pellets. With the inclusion of a grilling grate to top it all off, the multicooker not only has the capability to create a wide variety of recipes, but it also makes it easy for those times when all you want is a burger or a hot dog.

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The Char-Broil Big Easy Smoker, Roaster and Grill expands what it means to have a backyard barbeque. Capable of different cooking methods, the multicooker brings the versatility of the kitchen to the back yard. Read this blog post by Brian Krepshaw on Appliances and Kitchen Gadgets. - Smoker Char-Broil grilling kitchen tools kitchen gadgets kitchen appliances appliances cooking cooking blog

2010-09-02 BBC News - Greece in new crackdown on smokers and tobacco ads

Smoking ban introduced in Greece

I am a smoker and I do not plan to quit any time soon. A full ban on smoking in closed public and work places in Greece has become inevitable after partial bans failed to create a social balance. And when civic society fails, eventually the state takes over. I will respect the ban by simply stopping going out to restaurants and other such places, at least during the cold and rainy months of the year, and by always being seated outdoors in the warm and sunny period. Business-wise, it will most certainly create a drop in productivity, through the loss of working hours in order to go out to smoke or through nerves-tension. Eventually, business will start firing and stop hiring smokers. On a political level, it is obvious that the current government, formerly of a Euro-Socialist ideology, tries to fill its ideological void with

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A new law comes into force in Greece banning smoking in enclosed public spaces and prohibiting tobacco advertising.

2010-08-29 Recall roundup: This weeks consumer product recalls Money and Company Los Angeles Times

About 18,450 Char-Broil vertical gas smokers are being recalled because when the temperature setting is "low," the smokers hose/valve/regulator (HVR) assembly does not allow sufficient gas to flow, causing the flame to extinguish. Gas continues to flow and build up inside the smoker. If the smoker is reignited, the buildup of propane gas can cause an explosion that bursts the smokers door open, posing an injury hazard.

This recall involves Char-Broil vertical gas smokers with model number 07701413. The model number is printed on a metal tag on the right rear leg of the smoker. The smoker measures 21. 5" x 19. 5" x 45. 5" and weighs 75 pounds. A "G" inside a triangle is printed on the regulator.

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Heres this weeks roundup of recalls announced by the Consumer Product Safety Commission. Magnetic maze boards About 18,500 magnetic maze boards made by Lakeshore Learning Materials of Carson are being recalled because the products plastic wand can separate and expose.

2010-08-13 3 Bergen guys juiced for Vernon barbecue battle

Someone else did the welding, but they did everything else. Assembled in a garage two winters ago, loaded into the back of a trailer, the smoker accompanied the trio on their trip to Rochester, N. Y. site of the first barbecue competition they ever entered.

Im never able to talk passionately about insurance the way I am about food," Mangano said last week in Old Tappan. "I did it because it was a 9-to-5 job. It bought me my first house. It (offered) a lot more security. "

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Three Bergen County relatives have become barbecue experts - New Jersey New Jersey News NJ news North Jersey North Jersey News local news news local sports local classifieds high school sports Bergen County Passaic County The Record Bergen Record

2010-07-24 Savor summer with an inexpensive electric smoker

Mount brings her Italian heritage to Le Grand Bistro, the new restaurant in Suite 805 of the Grand Mall in Grand Blanc. Her birthplace, the rugged Abruzzi, is partly responsible for her love for food and cooking. The other is the inspiration of last years European vacation with husband David Eccles.

The electric element assures a relatively stable temperature, which is one problem I encountered with my charcoal smoker. With the latter, the temperature fluctuates too much when a steady 200-225 degrees is desired.

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When a friend threw down a pork rib challenge some years back, I decided to go all the way and smoke my spareribs low and slow. I went to Meijer and hauled home a usd. 70 bullet water smoker.

2010-07-22 Sighs matter

A rig is a pit is a smoker is a grill is a barbecue. Theyre all names for the same thing: a contraption for smoking meats and other foods. A rig, though, is a super-sized version of the others.

Nowadays, you practically need a welding license and a degree in food chemistry to understand how these things are made and what they do. Competitors on the barbecue circuit throw around terms such as "double insulated" and "regulated air flow" and "barometrics" and "digitized mills" and "convection fans" and "remote thermometers. "

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Smoke Signals is a new monthly column on barbecue. I try not to stare. But, I mean, look at that thing. Its gigantic. Way bigger than mine. Ridiculous, really. Who needs one that large So mine is smaller. So what That doesnt make it inferior. Or does it I try to pretend that size doesnt mat. - Extreme barbecue rigs competition barbecue smokers

2010-07-11 Wichita Considers Amending Smoking Law

Gregg. you need to realize that by taking the rights away from smokers the way you want it that would be the same as me telling you that the only way you can walk down the street in the summer is if you wear a winter coat. Grow up and realize that smokers have rights as well as you do. If you dont like the smoke stay out of areas that smoking is allowed. that is the only way that this is going to work. and for one thing I am a smoker and dont smoke when there are kids around or if someone dont like the smoke I will gladly go away from them to smoke.

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The Wichita City Council will consider amending the smoking ordinance to conform to the new state law. - Smoking ordinance

2010-07-07 Wisconsin adjusts to new smoke-free world Minneapolis and St. Paul

The authors of the study acknowledged that within the food and drink sector, individual bars or cafes may have faltered due to a combination of factors, including smoking bans. But taken as a whole, the industry survived the new restrictions on tobacco use.

The ban, like most such laws, is designed to protect nonsmokers and workers from secondhand smoke, which is linked to higher rates of cancer and heart disease. The largest unknown will be the true economic impact.

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2010-07-05 Columbia smoking ban yields results Springfield News-Leader

The average impact on restaurants serving food only -- most of which were non-smoking before the ban -- was insignificant, the report said, but was about 6. 5 percent for restaurants that serve alcohol and almost 11 percent for bars that dont serve food.

Vaughn said the argument, made during council hearings in 2006, that the ban would bring droves of non-smokers downtown hasnt materialized at his bar, which catered mainly to patrons -- many of them smokers -- "who want to have a couple mugs of quality beer and read a good book. "

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Columbia -- More than three years after an ordinance banned tobacco use in all but a handful of indoor spaces, the debate over smoking in this central Missouri city has lost much of its fire. - Ozarks News Springfield MO News local news headlines stories world news

2010-07-02 Today may be the day for smokers to pack it in

Today may be the day for smokers to pack it in

Without the burden of sales taxes, the price of a "nickel bag" of pot has defied inflation and held at usd. 5 ever since I was an impressionable teenager -- even though the Bureau of Weights and Measures isnt around to verify the quantity or the Food and Drug Administration the quality. (Clever drug dealers call it a "nickel" bag to fool us non-tokers. )

To figure it out, my smoker friends tell me that an addicted person can go through three packs a day, seven days a week, for a total of 21 packs a week at usd. 13 a pack. So at New York State prices thats usd. 273 a week, or usd. 1,092 a month -- the cost of a small shared co-op rental somewhere on the West Side. (No doorman, natch. )

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The price of cigarettes goes up another usd. 1. 60 a pack in New York state today. So I was wondering how the new cost of between usd. 12 and usd. 13 a pack compares with other addictions people might want to