Beef up your summer barbecue with these 7 cooking podcasts

Firing up the grill this summer? Feeling a bit rusty? Let’s hope your grill isn’t. Here is a list of the best barbecue and food podcasts for you to devour while you plan the perfect barbecue.

Learn all of the best barbecue tips and tricks from the best in the business. Not only that, but gain all sorts of dinner party and foodie advice on how to best entertain your guests during the hot season with these cooking podcasts:

Barbecue Base

“Barbecue Base” is giving you classic American barbecue with a little New Zealand zest! Hear from some of the cooks that make the best barbecue in the world, and you just might get some advice along the way. This is serious barbecue.

The BBQ Beat Podcast

Host Kevin Sandridge invites some of the biggest names in barbecue on to his podcast dedicated to all things grilling. Guests range from barbecue pitmasters to food industry insiders, to grilling product manufacturers. Learn some of the most sage advice from the people who have perfected the art of the BBQ.

Dinner Party Download

Veering a bit off of grilling here, “Dinner Party Download” is the top podcast to learn how to host the perfect party. From American Public Media, every episode hits you with a bit of weird history, a new cocktail recipe, and answers burning etiquette questions. With heavy hitting guests like Aubrey Plaza and the late Anthony Bourdain, “Dinner Party Download” has endless laughs and advice for your July 4 barbecue. While the show ended in 2018, there are over 400 episodes for you to choose from.

The Sporkful

“The Sporkful” is obsessed with finding the best food for you to eat, cook, and obsess over. Lovingly tagged as not for foodies, but for eaters, host Dan Pashman is using food to learn more about people. When “The Sporkful” is not teaching us new recipes to try, they are investigating the intersection of food and societal issues. This podcast has won both a James Beard Award and a Webby – how could you not listen?

Tailgate Guys BBQ Podcast

Okay, back to the grill! “Tailgate Guys BBQ Podcast” is all about barbecue tips, techniques and recipes for the best cookout you’ve ever had. With guests from the Kansas City Barbeque Society and the Steak Cookoff Association, we promise that this will up your grill game to the max.

The Smoking Hot Confessions BBQ Podcast

There is no one way to do your Fourth of July barbecue, but there is a right way. “The Smoking Hot Confessions BBQ Podcast” wants to help you become King of Grill this holiday weekend. Whether you’re looking for Texas barbecue, offset smokers, hot’n’fast smoking or Australian BBQ, this pod has it all.

Grill This! with Matt and Jim

Learn a new recipe to make on the grill every episode on “Grill This with Matt and Jim”. Hosts Jim Salmon and Matt Wilson are radio veterans teaming up to chat over barbecue and beers. They have ribs and home brewing, beef kabobs, pulled pork, bacon wrapped beef fillets and more. Paired with their favorite craft beers, this podcast is perfecting grilling.