Is Chris Hay
from Youth euclid Ohio and you are listening
to Barbecue
Central.
Yay.
We're doing live life Okay.
Do it live. I can go right it
and we'll do it live. So they get
that perfect barbecue, You use wood. I be
sure shake whatever. We put the letter fluid
on, strike your match and
should we call a fire department? That might
be a good idea.
Fluid
Hey. Good evening and
welcome to the really big barbecue central shell.
This is the show that talks about
all things.
They're important to the world of barbecue and
grilling.
The show originating from the rock and roll
hall same city, Bomb City,
Usa, Cleveland, Ohio,
the Barbecue capital of the North Coast.
Same on your program host, greg Grumpy Habitat.
Board here on your Tuesday evenings, is the
lion fire fun and Quality show,
If you would like to get in contact
with the show this evening or you would
like to follow the show during show hours.
Here's how you do all that.
You can get in touch with the show
by sending an email to Greg at knob.
BBQ
central show dot com.
List on all the social media channels at
Bb central show and be sure to subscribe
to the show podcast feed on your favorite
podcast platform. Anything else you wanna find out
about the show. Can be found out at
the main website, the bb b central show
dot com and here's what's happening in case
you can get the newsletter coming up, about,
12 minutes from now. He is a longtime
sponsor of the show. He is a cofounder
of 1 of the leading technology brands in
the live space,
and an overall great guy, friend O mine,
Ted Conrad from fire board,
And finally,
finally,
fire board has entered the fray
of wireless
remote thermometer
I think for the last
many years? I have always ended each
interview segment with Ted saying, when is the
wireless thermometer coming?
Why aren't you making a wireless thermometer. There's
more and more coming to market
in June sixteenth of 20 24,
technically a few days ago?
They have arrived into the wireless markets that
We'll talk all about and get the ins
and outs,
compare contrast to what's existing out there.
In the marketplace
and give you all the information to make
your best purchasing
decisions. Then 35 past the first hour creative
cook out news dot com and his normal
third Tuesday of the month regular guest wes
rank.
So as we're getting the breaking news from
Ted Conrad in the previous segment to Wes,
we will then turn around in West segment
and talk about what Ted just talked about,
we'll talk about the
segment of wireless
thermometer
in the live
industry where we might see it in the
next handful full years. Those some other things
we're gonna be talking about as well. So
west right to close out the first hour.
And then we will move to the second
hour
You might have seen
a week,
maybe a little more than a week ago
or 20 23.
Pod
subject.
1 Joe Martinez,
smoking and Joe's, pit barbecue,
posting
that smoking and Joe's pit barbecue is now
officially closed.
What does that mean?
I think I
hear a boy crying Wolf or maybe he's
not crying Wolf at all. Maybe he's really
closed.
But as soon as I saw it, I
started shooting out emails, and then I went
completely
off the radar with comm on anybody concerning.
What happened with Smoking and Joe's pit barbecue,
and we will learn all about it. If
it's for real for real. If it's semi
for real, if you somehow felt pressured once
again by Youtube viewers
to make announcements,
proclamation
and
declarations of non business
operation,
all will be revealed in the second hour.
So that's how the show's is laying out
Ted conrad West wright in the first hour
and Joe Martinez
in the second hour. Don't forget. You can
follow me socially,
Instagram, Twitter, the Tiktok, snapchat, and Linkedin.
All with the handle at Bbq Central show.
And of course, we say good evening to
those of you watching the show tonight through
1 of our video streaming platt forms, you
can go to Facebook dot com slash bbq
central show or twitter dot com slash
bbq central show or watch on Youtube,
which is Youtube dot com slash
at bbq b central show. Where we have
a new Youtube poll question of the week,
and we're asking everybody this to include all
guests.
The grid market will remain a hot 1
for consumers,
through the duration of 20 24 and currently,
83 percent of you are saying yes, you
do believe
that the grid market will remain a hot
1 through the balance of the year. Results
of the poll question last week
Did you watch either hot dog eating contest
on July fourth and 86
percent? That's funny. Because it was just a
83 percent 86 percent of you said, no.
You did not watch any hotdog dog eating
contest whether it was Joey chestnut eating with
the brave troops
down in Ford Bliss where he canned 57,
hot dogs and bonds in 5 minutes, and
you did not watch the major league eating
slash nathan, famous hot dog eating event
taking place in Brooklyn, this standard or the
pro typical 1 that you would usually watch,
where a pat Bert
took down 58
hot dogs and buns
in 10 minutes,
but I talked about that last week.
So
we'll start here tonight, and I know you
want me to talk about it because I
said that after last week.
I was done talking about it.
That being competitive, hotdog dog eating and of
course,
of course.
The very next day, something else happens
in the sector of competitive eating.
And you think I'm gonna be talking about
it.
Bringing you the latest updates and the latest
con controversy of the hotdog eating world. And
if you think that you are 100 percent
wrong,
Can I get a
oh, yeah?
Hey, everybody. Can I trouble you for a
mall? Yeah?
I'm not doing it.
Tune in to Steve Rays
show
as he breath
covers everything that is happening in the world
of competitive eating,
From now until the foreseeable future, I believe
his show is Steve Rae. Eat this. That's
the name of the podcast.
I might be off on that. Some of
you might be helping
that I share my thoughts on the attempted
assassination of former president Trump.
I do have a take on that, which
is unrelated to the shooting actually. It's more
of a commentary on where we are as
a society of humans
But instead, I'm going in a completely different
direction tonight. I cover the topic that is
the biggest 1 on the show, which is
of course. Of the show itself.
I'm specifically talking about the latest
review that the show got on itunes
at the end of last week
from someone who didn't even leave their name,
keyboard command those at large
ranging
through anonymity, the safety of anonymity. It reads
the following way
subject line
ridiculous
rating
1 star.
And I quote,
How can anyone
listen to this? It is beyond me of
the sound effects, the yelling.
The screaming. It's all ridiculous.
Stick to the subject,
this left via Apple podcast, in the United
States of America.
Thank you
for the review.
Can I get a? Yeah. Hey, everybody. Can't
I trouble you for a mall. Yeah.
So good.
I don't know even what to say. I'm
doing the shell live.
February
seventh of 2008.
I'm, like 16 years in, 17 years in,
18 years end. If you count the 2
years of previous just podcast podcasts only before
he started the live show.
It's always had
sound effects. I don't even know what you're
talking about as far as the yelling is
concerned. Nobody's yelling.
Can we get a little bit passionate
and heed about our particular opinions,
especially in panel? Type situations like the embedded
correspondence. Yeah. The screaming. Nobody's ever screaming.
Never
And I stick to the subject matter by
and large.
Do we deviate from time to time yes.
Because if we only
always talked about
live,
barbecue and grilling, the show would have won
the way that every other barbecue and grilling
show has gone, which is the way of
the dinosaur.
Gone forever and ever a amen.
Every but we will continue to change it
up, and much to your cha,
Mister Macho,
leaving me 1 star. Like,
Just send me a personal email and tell
me you think the show sucks like the
other 25 people do every week.
Don't leave me a 1 star rating
that hurts my visibility on itunes.
It's like customer service. You hate the show
email me privately first.
And then if I can't convince you to
not do that, You just go ahead. I
mean you're gonna do it right?
You're not gonna give me the opportunity to
explain myself. You're just jumping in willy nilly.
And then leaving me a subject line title
of ridiculous and then the 1 star.
Now dare you.
That might hurt my feeling.
Say hello to the future of grilling.
But the patented thermostat
control technology
brought to you by winter products on the
members Mark Series Grill, the pro series.
We have 2 modes first up is barbecue
mode or grilling mode.
Your traditional grilling experience with variable temperatures giving
you control Beach Burner to adjust exactly how
you wanted on your terms. Or enter the
game changing and patented over
oven mode or oven depending on where you
live,
simply set the thermostat
control dial to your desired temperature,
and your grill transforms
into a precise oven.
The choice like the black sheep would say
is yours.
Members mark k series with thermostat control now
available at your local Sam's club store and
only your local Sam's club store.
So if you're not a member, become a
member or steal your neighbor's membership card when
they're not looking and go to say sam's
club and check out the member's Mark Grill.
I think you're gonna be very happy with
what you see. The 4 burner does sell
a little bit better than 5 burner. It's
all price Point right, but for sub 700
dollars.
The 5 burner is the steel of the
century right now.
When I was talking with James last week
as you remember?
I said I think this grill would be
8 1800 dollars or more if it had
different brands badge on it. He said, I
agree.
It would.
So
I'm urging you.
If you're a Sam's club member to go
through the live section where all the Grill
are sold to make sure you put an
eyeball on the members Mark Pro series Grill,
And again,
I just used it last night to cook
up 5 chicken breast.
Perfect. Dials in the heat. I used regular
grill mode, but I do use oven mode,
quite frequently action,
You pick you learn you choose only a
Sam's club, we're back with Ted conrad right
after this stick around be right back. You're
listening to that Barbecue hughes Central show.
I can't staying live from the Barbecue Hughes
Central show studios in Cleveland, Ohio.
You're listening to the Barbecue Hughes Central show.
Once again, here's your host.
Greg Rem.
Very welcome back to this Portion show being
brought to you by cooking capella dot com.
Your number 1 source for quality, wood pellets
for all your pellet driven cooker.
You visit cook Pellets dot com for and
check out everything they have to offer for
sale. And then when you're ready to buy,
do something mind boggling.
Instead go to walmart dot com or lowe
dot com or
amazon dot com and purchase from there. Same
great product, but Kris Becker owner of cook
Pellets says send pete full their better shipping
rates than we can do it cook call
so. I've given you all the information you
do what you wanna do. By the way,
Diane me weighing in on the Facebook.
I don't think you yell scream. You have
an excellent voice. Thank you, Diane.
So take that whoever you are in anonymity
on
Apple podcast review leaving me 1 star. My
first guest tonight, 1 of the cofounder founders
of fire board, longtime supporter of this show,
which I certainly appreciate. You are most likely
familiar with their products, which now include the
fire board 2, the fire board to drive,
the fire board pro, the fire board spark
and the fire board beacon.
Just to name a few. Tonight, we're gonna
talk about a new item just recently announced
into media, and I am happy to have
him on the show to dig into it.
Ted Conrad of fire board. Hey Ted.
Hey, Greg. How are you? Ted, before we
get into new product to talk and nonsense,
we have a Youtube poll question of the
week that we're asking everybody. And the question
is this, Do you think the grid market
will remain a hot 1 for consumers through
the balance of 20 24 yes or no.
I'm a skeptic I'll say no.
Oh, I'm sorry. That's the right 1.
You're agreeing with 25
percent of the voting public saying no 75
percent.
Saying that they believe it will continue to
remain hot. Before we talk about
the pulse, which is the name of the
new item. Last time you were on, we
I think the time even before that, we
had mentioned the beacon, but then last time,
we talked about the release of the beacon.
How's it going for the beacon right now.
The beacon great, this was the first year
that we went to the restaurant show, which
is
May up in Chicago.
And that was the first year that we've
actually had the beacon available
for people
to essentially buy it right there. And and
we don't really sell units at the show
per s. But if if they're interested in
it, they could essentially buy it, we were
gonna
we essentially took orders at the show. And
we've we've had some really good discussions that
have come from that
and continue to come from that show.
What, you know, the the beacon is something
that it's just
this eventually peel you just... You you throw
it in a walk in fridge or freezer
and it just works. So it's a simple,
super simple
installation.
I have asked you about
wireless
thermometers coming from fire board for what seems
like 5 years, maybe it's longer than maybe
it's shorter than that. You had remained steadfast
in the... It's not us yet
type of refrain. So
With others coming to market,
especially combustion inc. Now,
and then thermal works is launching
end of the month or so,
Did you feel in a way that your
hand was forced now to bring something to
market? Or were you ready to go at
this stage?
Well, the the 2 things that made a
big difference. That just to be honest with
Greg. I mean, like, any proxy it's taken
some time.
So
we've been
developing this designing this researching this for for
almost 2 years.
And so we been planning this for a
while. I... Obviously, it's been
more or less confidential. You know, we've been
doing all this work. Trying to get it
ready. But the thing the thing that we
can became apparent,
it
we've had so much
reverse inquiry. Is is sort of the term
that I use, but we've had our customers
that have come back
and ask us, we we did a little
video montage
as our product announcement,
and it's kind of... It's... He... You know,
Alec and our team did a great job
with it.
But it pops up all the little comments
and the the questions and the emails that
we've had, customers are like, hey, what about
a wireless probe? How about now?
When's a wireless probe coming? You guys have
to do this?
And so really, people were urging. And that
was the first thing that I think kind
have opened our eyes, like, you know, what
customers want this. It makes if the product
works well.
I think the second thing that really transformed
or, I guess, I'm convinced of this was
when we did the low of frequency... We
call it g which word for 1 gigahertz.
Did that for the beacon. And as as
people you're the beacon of the sub 1
gigahertz is just to get you that extended
range.
And when we did that for the beacon,
I think the light kinda went off and
we're like, you could solve the range as
shoes
that bluetooth has with these probes because you
put a probe inside of a metal
case It doesn't transmit very well. Right? It
doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure that
out. Yep. And so you wanna figure out
you saw. That was that was kinda of
the eye opening thing, which was if we
use a lower frequency then this is... This
could be a robot.
Nothing like having the dramatic product announcement and
then this.
Fire board
Pulse is the name of product.
If you wanna check it out while we're
talking it's fire board dot com, and then
I believe it's just slash pulse or if
you just go to fire board dot com.
It's right there,
the lead, you don't even have to scroll
to find it. Obviously, it's the brand new
product that they're gonna be launching here shortly.
So the fire board pulse is the name
of it, fire board dot com, the Let
me back you up to sub 1GI
don't wanna nerd out to the people that
I can use the lingo and know what
I'm talking about, but you were talking about
how you learned something from sub g that
you would be able to put into the
pulse.
Yeah. Yeah. And and sorry for that that
drop out there. But but, yeah, tried to
go through this real quick. That I I
just mentioned the first thing was all the
the customers. Yeah, that that asked us to
build this product. And then the second thing
was
S1G,
you know, the sub 1 gigahertz,
which is just this lower frequency,
and the lower frequency
gives you that longer range. And so I
think the problem
with putting
this device inside of a metal
box, if you will, if you call a
cooker or grill or smoker or a metal
box, you know, it's really hard to get
much of a wireless signal outside of that.
And
so the light bulb really went off when
we started
looking at this S1G technology,
we were, like, good grief. If we can
if we can jam that technology
into
a wireless probe.
We might actually have something that's that's pretty
cool here. So that's that's been... Gosh. That's
been something we've been
struggling with me to a little bit of
a engineering problem.
So it's been a couple years in the
works.
I remember
all the times I was asking you about
a wireless probe. 1 of the things that
you would constantly say is it's getting that
technology
all into 1 thing and then worrying about
what kind of a gauge that you were
gonna need to get all that stuff in,
not to mention the cost of potential replacement
if something were to burn up or go
haywire
inside of there. So how were you able
to
package it in a way that you feel
is
both accommodating to the technology, but also isn't
leaving a 12 gauge bullet hole in the
meat like some of the other stuff.
Well, the first thing I say is it
it's really hats off to the fire board
team. I mean, the the team
led by a Paul Sk. He's our our
head of design, head of product design. And
he he has done an amazing job with
the the design elements of of, any design
elements and also the mechanical elements to go
into this product.
And
you know, for those of you who are
listening, you can't see when I'm holding up,
but I'll be, you know, finding actually holding
up this
the pulse probe,
and it's it's a chi tip and, like,
I guess, Chi tip, it's basically a hexagon
type of shape.
And it's it's more flat than I guess
it is a perfect Hexagon.
And it it sort of has
again, for lack of a better word. It's...
It kinda looks like a chi.
Which... So it gives you a really nice
tip on the end, but what what the
the trick with that is it sort of
ends up making it thinner,
but then you have a little bit of
that width that
that can accommodate
you know, the the the printed circuit board
that that gets slid down inside this tube.
So it's a cool design element, but it's
also functional on that
that's how we are able to to fit
some electronics inside that tube. Give us the
high level on the pulse. What do we
what do we like about it? How is
how is it set apart?
Yeah. I... The the number 1 thing that
sets it apart is it's... To our knowledge,
it's the world's first
dual band,
wireless probe.
So when I just mentioned before this S1G
technology, which is the sub 1 gigahertz, it's
essentially nice between 902 megahertz and 928
megahertz that for those radio geek,
it's... I think it's called the Ism band.
Anyway, I may not have that right. But
anyway, so it's the low frequency
combined with Bluetooth.
So you have... And Bluetooth is 2.4 gigahertz.
So
the Bluetooth
is cool because you still can use
in short range,
you can use
all the existing fire products.
I should say it, you know, the fire
board 2 and the Spark, the original fire
board right now not supporting the wireless probe
yet. It's possibility down the road. But right
now, it's a fire 2 and a spark
and
all the y
controllers, the of the odor pellet smokers that
have our technology
integrated.
It's it's just an over the air update.
And those
work. So you get the
the simplicity and the flexibility
and the connectivity with Bluetooth, because those devices
are all
short range. Right? I mean, you you have
the fire board sitting right next to your
cooker
that works. And that's sort of like, what
everybody else is done with Bluetooth
with a bluetooth 3 Peter,
but then you have combined with that, you
have this long ability
with the S1G.
So you have the best of both worlds
I think the
the design element,
you know, you can kind, in a way,
there's a ceramic end to this metal tube.
And it's a little circle. So it's sort
of reminds you of the fire board logo
in a way. So it's kind of a
cool another cool design element.
But there's actually an embedded ambient
external sensor. So there's there's actually temperature that
you'll get
outside the meat
with this sensor, and then you have the
internal, the meat temperature, of course,
and that's further down in this tube, which
would be buried inside the meat. So I
think you have
everything that you need in a nice little
package.
It snaps onto
a charger,
The charger itself is rechargeable.
So the the charger you would charge Usb
c.
You can have
multiple
probes kinda stacked on top of each other,
so there's these cool magnets.
And they stack on top of each other.
There's some cool little things we've we've jammed
in here, You know, like you can plug
in.
1 Usb c to to recharge these these
chargers And then because they're stacked, all the
power flows through that stack.
You can charge, like, 10 of these things
are all just stacked up together, which is
kinda fun.
In the magnets, you know, it's 600 refrigerator
and all that stuff. So it's it's really
a cool design. You know, I I... Besides
it's for the product functioning
really, really well. You, the design is just...
It's it's beautiful.
Let's talk about what customers really wanna know
that are interested in wireless stuff.
Connection efficiency
when the hood is down.
Well,
like I mentioned, that's where that... That's where
this fire board pulse
really shines.
So
if you buy
what we call an S1G
antenna,
and the S1G antenna will plug into Fire
2, So those people that already own a
Fire 2, any the Fire 2 series, which
is the regular fire 2, the drive or
the pro.
They buy an attendant. We saw it really
cheap. We almost kinda give it away, but
it's 20 bucks. The antenna plugs into the
fire too. Now the fire 2 can receive
those 900 megahertz signals.
And then you can have your fire 2
in your house anywhere
and you've got...
Essentially, a line of sight at 1800 feet
which is what we've... What we've tested. You
know, if you're in... With you're... If you've
got the door closed,
I'm gonna d rate that quite a bit.
And it's gonna depend on the situation. Right?
It depends what kind of cooker you have,
depends on if you're going through more
brick walls or, you know, different types of
walls, but you're gonna have
hundred feet... Hundreds of feet
to still have that range
through that low frequency. So that
that really works well.
And then the Bluetooth is, again, a great
solution. If you're using the drive. If you
already have your fire sitting right there and
next to your grill. Yep. And it just
works. You just pair it like, any other
fire device and off the races.
So I'm gonna
give you an example, I'm gonna... Let's say
use this weekend. I'm gonna do a pork
butt cook. I'm gonna use fire board drive
on the p.
And I put the thermometer in.
And then it's because it's close. It's talking
to each other, and then I'm
at the grocery store,
10 miles away. So long as I have
cloud connectivity, I can still see my temperature
and you know, all that stuff, or or
maybe I'm doing a a roti
chicken in the p, of course, you know,
you wanna do that with wireless because you
can't do with wired.
All all that's fine. No problem.
Yep. Yeah. In that scenario,
and I I do think it's worth mentioning
here.
It... The scenario,
I guess the scenarios is plural, there's there's
many different scenarios of how this thing connects.
You know, you can connect the low frequency
like I mentioned, you can connect Bluetooth.
You could connect to your actually direct to
somebody's cell phone, see if the fire board
app on your mobile phone. It'll connect directly
to that. You even have to have a
fire board at all. Of course, that's sort
of the worst experience because
if you're inside the house with your phone,
you know, range is pretty limited over Bluetooth
to get side. But to short answer to
your question, Greg, and in that scenario,
your fire board is sitting right next to
the the cam auto cooker,
and you're probably running the drive. Your fire
board connects Bluetooth,
tooth pulse. The pulse is those are 1
or many of those. And by the way,
they're gonna be color coded.
They're gonna be this... There's a little circular
ring
So you can have multiple
pulse probes and they're color coded, which will
all show up through the the fire board
app, which is kinda fun.
So those will connect Bluetooth
to the fire board, and the fire board
is connected Wifi,
you know, and that goes to the cloud.
So it's all relay. The fire board essentially
acts as a relay
or a repeater, I guess, it's a better
word.
Repeater. So the fire board is that central
hub where all the information goes up to
the cloud.
Somebody's asking, how does the pulse work
with more than 3 probes if you have
a fire board 2 pro? The fire board
to only supports 3 ports.
Yeah. So they're asking
the the Fire Pro is the thermo couple
based fire board that we sell. Yeah. Right.
And it has those yellow,
connect kate type k, thermo a couple connectors.
Yep. So there's 3 of those physical connectors.
And you can still use those 3 thermo
couples if you want, But then you can
add... And and right now, we have it
hard coded, the limits at 32.
So you could theoretically, you could have 32
of these pulse probes. I'm, you know, I'm
not sure who needs 32, but who doesn't?
Yeah. Why not? So
you could you could add 32. I think
we basically set it at 32 just because
there's some memory
issues just to way things are designed. Theoretically,
it could be more than that.
But anyway, yeah. You could you could add
on with the fire too. You can add
on essentially,
as many probes as you want. So the
the wireless probe... There's... There's the only limit
is 32 like I mentioned.
Let me
reg what I understand. You tell me what's
right. What's wrong. West hang out for a
little bit because we ran some tech issues
up running in ted's.
Ted segment here. I'm just talking to another
guess.
Normally,
I guess what I wasn't able to get
over my mental hurdle was
I always have my fire board 2
outside because I'm using wireless pro... Or I'm
using wired probes because that's how it's always
been.
Whether I'm using the drive or not.
Now I can use the wireless
probe and
the base unit doesn't have to live out
there, like, I'm just thinking right off the
top of my head, like, it has to
live out there with a wired.
Connection, which is where now you would get
the bluetooth or you would get the S1G
antenna.
Because now you're taking the base station with
you if you want to monitor temperature,
or you could just leave it there,
and
I don't most people monitor their fire on
their phone.
Yeah. Yeah. So either way, I think it
gives you options. Yeah.
The other the other thing...
I wanna... Just just real quick mention. I
know you got time constraints because I was...
My my Silly Wi, I guess wasn't good
enough.
But but
we we are also
going to launch a product called the Fire
board bridge.
And we're making that public because we want
people to know that this this whole S1G
ecosystem that we're building.
This is really more than just these devices
that you see. I mean, this is this
ecosystem is gonna continue to grow. And the
bridge is a small little device, kind of
like a fire board, but it doesn't have
any probes at all,
but it has S1G
connectivity so that 900 megahertz
It also has Wifi, and it has Bluetooth.
So the bridge can connect more or less
as a repeater,
that can sit inside your house. So any
of your S1G devices
will build a... You carry that signal to
the bridge. The bridge will be connected Wifi
to the cloud. Mh And so that way,
you even have to think about it. You
know, you can have your fire board inside
or outside if you're running drive,
obviously, have to have power there with the
fire board to run the fan.
For those not running dry, the fire board
can be anywhere. So it kinda gives people
some options.
When is the bridge coming up?
So the bridge, our goal is to have
that out before the holidays. So we're looking
at, I'm hoping October
November launch.
What are we looking at cost wise on
the pulse?
Pulse is 01:49,
which comes the charger.
And the bridge,
you just just to mention we don't have
things finalized yet. But
right now, we've we've we're aiming at the
sub 100 dollar price point on the bridge.
Yeah. So that would... That would allow people
to get into the whole fire board ecosystem.
In the cloud using all the S1G technology
at a lower price point,
you know, if people don't already in a
fire board.
Any discount if we buy 5 at a
time?
Yeah. We're gonna work up some bundle deals
Greg, and you know, I think, typically, you
know, in in a bundle, you know, we'll
we'll probably work, you know, work that price
down. Yeah. We don't have those those bundles
finalized yet in terms of the, you know,
what the bundle pricing would be. But, yeah,
we... There there are people that are going
to
obviously, to by, you know, a handful of
these.
The other thing in this interesting it comes
with this charger, and we're kinda of waiting
to see
how people really use this and what they...
But you can charge this like, 10 minutes
in it last, like, you know, 15 hours.
So you don't have to have a charger,
potentially, you don't have to have a charger
for every single probe, No. Which may allow
us to actually sell the probe
an individual probe that a without a charge
or a lower price.
How can we buy? What's the rollout here?
Or is it available for sale?
Yep. So the rollout?
We are right now,
we are starting to send out invites,
and we've prioritized
the existing fire board customers.
So if you are an existing fire customer,
stay on the lookout for
your email invite, that will give you a
code.
Or you can actually pre order the pulse.
And so we're rolling that out now, it's
kinda going out in phases. So if you
if you haven't seen it yet, just stay
tuned,
so already kinda doing that pre order. Eventually,
the pre order will open to everyone,
and then we're gonna start shipping
probably late August is our goal. We're we're
really... We're close. But I mean, it's just
1 of those things or, you know,
production ramping up and getting all that stuff
done.
So once that starts, then we're gonna open
it up after August would be wide opens
just just take normal orders on a going
forward basis.
Anything else you wanna tell us about the
pulse or any other products that are coming
up before we let you go here tonight
nighttime.
No, Greg, This is Fine. I I we
we love talking about these these products. I
mean, III
love the technology. You know, we're...
We're essentially a technology company that likes Barbecue.
So we're...
I looked... You know, III love to listen
to your show and learn
with all the experts about the barbecue. But
hopefully, you, we we bring some credibility on
the technology side. Oh, yeah. It's it's always
fun to share the the tech stuff with
with the audience with your with your podcast.
So I I appreciate the the chance to
come on here. But I'm just excited that
after years and years of asking that we
have something getting ready to roll out that
I can get my hands on and try
out and really
put through the test and give you some
feedback and all that fun stuff. So, be
looking for my invite as well. It's ted
conrad from Fire board, the website fire board
dot com. That appreciate the insight onto the
policy and we'll track you back down to
get an update after rolls out.
Thank you, Greg. I appreciate it. Alright. Take
care.
Ted conrad right there, hanging with me as
we got through a little technical issue there
upfront, but luckily, the connection firm up, and
we got a lot of great information on
that new pulse
that is coming out. So stay tuned for
that. Again,
invite only. So if you've been a long
time supporter, it's almost like buying a luxury
watch now.
Have you been a good customer? Good. Be
on the lookout for your invite, you might
be able to
get your hands on 1 of the new
fire board pulses first.
About that.
Fire board dot com slash pulse.
West ride is ready to go.
Let's hang out here just for a few
more minutes and we'll come back with you.
Are you tired of settling
for
nonsensical
mediocre
grilling experiences. Of course, you are. It's time
to step your game up. Step your game
bring the ultimate flavor and cooker to the
backyard barbecue, pitt and bits charcoal grill offering
the highest quality live,
cooking experience you can get in the market
today using either wood charcoal, their solid fuel
grill produce those classic flavors you're looking for
or When you have the time to fire
up the grill and cook for family and
friends with a large adjustable fuel tray, you
can raise and lower the fire to control
and fine tune the heat. Their take on
the very popular saying a Maria style grill.
Check them out online pitt and spit dot
com slash bbq b central. That's pitt and
spits dot com. Slash bb q central, and
don't forget to use the double t on
the pits and the spit. And also, at
checkout use promo code sharp cole central all
1 word charcoal central
for 150
dollars off any charcoal grill that Pitt spits
of salad,
West wright rejoin me here after a month
lay. Think around be right back. You're listening
to that Barbecue hughes Central show.
Howard stern, Jim Rome, 10 Patrick and Greg
Rem.
The mountain rushmore of talk show entertainment.
No. Let's get back to the Barbecue
Central show. This portion show being brought to
you by Fire board, of course.
Monitor up to 6 different temperatures simultaneously
connect the Wi after cloud based monitoring or
be a bluetooth.
You're on the lookout for new products, then
you're gonna wanna check out the fire board
pulse,
the new wireless thermometer offering, Hopefully,
releasing sometime around the end of next month,
but you're gonna have to keep your eyes
out on your email list.
To see if you get your invite from
fire board. Type conrad and the gang over
there at fire board dot com my next
guest tonight runs, cook out news dot com's
website, the third Tuesday of the month regular
guest here 35 past the first hour,
and we're always talking about the latest news
in the live
industry.
Pharmacy Central shows, guest hall fame, a nominee,
West,
joining us here. I'm show. We have a
Youtube poll question of the week that we're
asking everybody, which is, do you believe that
the grid market will remain a high 1
for the balance of 20 24, yes or
no.
Yes. It's gonna stay hot. Ted Conrad said
no. He was
taking the Contra
opinion 25 percent of people saying no,
the overwhelming majority saying yes, They think it's
going to remain
hot.
I wanna get right into it with you,
which is... We just had Ted Conrad from
fire board on. He was talking about the
new release of the fire board pulse, which
is the name of their new wireless thermometer
and it seems like a a race between
the titans,
to see who was actually going to be
getting their wireless thermometer out first, either thermal
works or fire board and that appears at
the moment the thermos... Thermal works might be
out here in the next couple weeks, but
time will tell on that.
What do you know about fire boards, pulse
and from whatever you caught from Ted segment
because I know you're around there on time
for your segment, your thoughts about hearing what's
involved features and benefits wise.
III like the pulse. I think kind of
the differentiator for me with
fire board is that they're developing an ecosystem.
And I think that's, you know, really cool
where some of their competitors, every product you
buy is, like a 1 off.
There... When when you buy from then, the
pulse now and with the, you know, fire
board 2 and the spark, they all work
together. So every product you get, it's it's
like you already, you know, you get something
more out of your money. I I think
it's a cool product.
Are you good with a hundred and 50
bucks for a
the a probe and a charger?
I if I was if I was new,
if I would if I didn't have, like,
a fire board too or signals or something
like that, I probably would. I think that's
a reasonable price.
Would it make me wanna upgrade? You know,
I don't know. That's that's a harder sell.
Let's talk about
wireless
thermometers for a second because over the last
handful of years. We've seen a number of
wireless thermometers come to market. They've all pretty
much sucked.
Time will tell, on, the fire board, of
course, and thermal works product.
Those 2 more than any of the other
ones give me the most hope of a
successful product, but
let's say for whatever reason they both
fall on their face or they're really not
or they're marginally better than what's existing out
there? Do you think you could see a
rollback to wires
if wireless didn't really take hold here in
the next handful of months or a year?
Yeah. I think if you know, it'll depend
on how well the connectivity works with these
products because, like, you Wife had negative experiences
with wireless thermometers.
And I I really... I don't find the
wires that cumbersome. Like, I think it's, you
know, a cool product and and neat. But
you know,
especially if you're,
you know, running a bridge
with a a wireless probe,
you know,
you're saving that little wire from 1 to
the other product, but,
you know, is... To me, it's not the
much of a hassle. You know, I guess,
with grilling when you're flipping things, if you're
running a a where, you know, wired probe,
that's kinda more annoying.
But, yeah, you know, I I don't think
there's anything wrong with wired probe, so I
think if connectivity doesn't prove out.
III
could see that going back.
I like to
figure out where I am in the market
because I'm 50 years old last week. And
I remember when I got into barbecue and
grilling. I mean, everything was wired.
So I look at it is, am I
more accepting
of wires because, you know, a for years
ted with from Fire board was telling me
you just have to deal with the wires.
We don't believe that there's a good wireless
solution yet otherwise, we bringing it to Mark.
So he's telling me just chill out, but
then I've only ever come up in
a way where there were wires that you
were gonna have to contend with and I
agree with you. It wasn't that big of
a deal. I'm not a big roti history
guy. I probably should be a bigger roti
guy than I am, which is like none.
But
without
something circulating
around,
you know, no big deal, I didn't really...
Care if there was a wireless thermometer or
not, like, asking about it because that seems
to be where the technology was trending.
But now that we have
wireless options. I'm wondering if I was a
younger me if the show was just starting
now and I was 25,
would I be looking at wires and going?
What do we doing? Is like a printed
book or using a tablet in a pen
instead of, you know, taking notes on your
ipad or your whatever that other devices it
looks like paper that you can write on,
but it's all
technological.
Is there a is there a generational thing
here too with that?
But
Yeah. I don't know. I might be real
old school because I actually, I like...
I have 1...
Wired probe, but it it connects to a
a handled controller. I don't like using my
phone too much to continually check temperature. So
maybe I'm I'm even older school than that
where, you know, the fire board apps works
well. But great. I I think some too
too is, like, how
how new you are to grilling? Because I
know my experience with a different
wireless probe, is it felt like
they were really into the tech of it.
So, like, beyond the wireless probe, their app
was, like, overly guided and would want...
Would would want you to set up a
cook every time, like you couldn't just pop
it in and then read temperatures,
and then it would bug you that it
would say it's not far enough in the
meat or it's too far and it was,
like, a total hassle because they... I don't
know. They just made the assumption that you've
never, you know, cooked anything in your life.
So I don't know if if maybe that's
the demographic they go for.
But, you know, I mean, I'm in my
forties, so I'm not too much younger than
you, But So if it it's general generational.
I I don't really know.
You did a article on
Green Mountain Grill recently
where they were rec committing, let's say, to
a dealer only sales channel.
We've talked about
sales of grill on this show
more than a number of times.
And it seemed like the new model was
do what Green Mountain G is doing, which
is building a dealer network or continuing to
build our dealer network through the country. They
probably need to
regain some relationships that might have been lost
over the last
18 months or so because of the things
that they were going through. And then continue
to grow out with new dealers.
But then other people
wanted to add ADT
component to that as well or some type
of a hybrid where they can have brick
and mortar dealers, but if you wanted to
go onto the website, you could go direct
to consumer.
What is Jason's thought on
continuing to stay with a dealer only commitment?
Yeah. I... Yeah. The article obviously stemmed out
of a conversation I had with Jason
about that.
And You know, I kinda hadn't thought about
it too much that when you go D
t that you're you're kinda competing with your
distribution channel, you know,
like, you're... You you want people to buy
through them, obviously, but you make better margin
if they buy directly from you. So you're
more incentivized to sell, you know, D.
So he he had some strong feelings that,
you know, companies shouldn't do that. They should
support their existing dealer models rather than
straight out compete against them, and he he
was really passionate about just making sure that
you know, he supported the dealer network. He
can controls
national advertising for them and promotes the product.
But then funnels all those sales through the
dealers themselves, which...
To me makes a lot of, you, you
know, makes a lot of sense for what
what they're doing and what their product is.
You know, I I think it's it's a
good model for them.
Is it
a bit of an old school model?
Or do you think more companies are just
trying to figure out every way to get
in front of a customer to be available
for sale?
Yeah. I think it is old school,
you know, completely. It seems like every grill
company wants to be d to see because
it's you know, the margins are so good
there. You're you cut out, you know, up
to a a third of a commission,
a third of your sales. So you know,
that's that's a model that people want to
go to
without getting too saturated because then you miss
out on on some advertising from people being
able to see it locally.
But but, yeah, it's, you know, I I...
For sure, that's the way that business used
to be done with local mom and Pops.
Did he mention
when the grill were gonna be available for
sale or what his inventory level is like
right now?
He... It sounded like it I I can't
remember any, like, hard numbers, but he, you
know, he said that they were were healthy
and and and products were were coming soon.
And so... Mh. You know, everything that that
I had heard about it and and written
about seemed like it was, you know, true
as far as timelines are concerned
I noticed that
oh, I'm always forgetting what their name? Vista
Outdoor,
the vista Yeah. The ones... Is this... Yeah.
Were they the manufacturer of camp chef or
Vista sold the manufacturing of camp chef, how
did that workout.
Yeah. And people are probably so sick of
me writing about that. It just seems like
there's endless on it.
But Vista outdoor, they own a... So they're...
They used to be part of Smith and
Wesson in a long time ago, and they
then... So they have, like, a shooting sport
segment an arm called the Kinetic Group, and
then they have camp chef and, like, camel
back,
and some other, like, golfing stuff and so
all these outdoor brands that are gonna go
into a separate umbrella.
And they're selling either just that shooting port
or there's another company that keeps actively trying
to buy out the whole company.
But what will likely happen is they'll sell
their shooting business to,
a Checklist Slovakia company. And then the
camp chef will go into rev list, which
will be
publicly traded. And the idea there is from
the sale of the other half,
like, 250000000 dollars gets put into R and
d and and promoting those brands.
And that's supposed to happen this month, but
it's kinda contentious and there's some
investors that are against it, some that are
either boards for it. So you know, we'll
see what what happens with all that.
In the meantime, what do we think about
Camp chef as a
legitimate pe cooker? They're still holding their own?
I I think their wood win pro is
really cool.
They
you know, they came out. It's been
Was that I think it was last year
or or year I think it's longer than
that.
Is it? Yeah.
Yeah. Probably. Yeah. I think summer fall of...
Yeah. Yeah. So you're probably right. But
I think that that still holds up. I
think it's a cool product. There's not much
else that can compete with it and in
in terms of smoke. You know, I've seen
it.
Used in person.
But I don't I don't know if it's
from the sale. I don't feel like they've
come out with too much since then though.
They came out with a grid that had
a little design and, like, a Grease trough
in the front.
Beyond that, I can't think of anything else
they they did. I mean, I don't know
what what are your thoughts Where where's is
their place in the market? Thought they were
gonna be the next big thing, and then
they
came up, like, a house of fire that
Woodland Pro was really cool, and then it
seems like they hit the pause button. I
don't know if there was with all the
internal struggling that was going on with a
bunch of the other stuff if that
through a wrench and to the mix or
if they just stopped introducing or
refreshing or whatever you wanna call it. But
if you wouldn't have told me anything about
camp over the last 2 years, I probably
would have said they went out of business.
Yeah. I and I I think that's what
it is Their a sale sale process takes
up tons of time, but you know, they're
1 of the companies that pissed outdoor. They
fired their Ceo through all the grill craziness.
And then they also sold they
In 20 21, at the end of the
year, they bought pellet mill manufacturer Called a
fiber energy products.
You know, Sure they paid a premium for
it given the timing
honestly there's like 48000000 dollars or something like
that. And they announced last week that they
sold that. So they, you know, bought that
and kept it for a couple of years
and sold it.
So,
you know, I I think they're just trying
to get through the sale of their company
and see what happens is my my thoughts.
But you know, They do have cool products
though, so I hope something good comes. Right?
I think last month, we touched on the
z
promotion a month later. I still see a
lot of social media, advertising about it. You
know anybody that's actually
taken advantage of it?
I do not. I've never never heard of
anyone that done it. I ran the Youtube
poll question of the week a couple weeks
ago. Did you take advantage of the Z
g promotion and 100
percent of people said that they did not.
Thank you, Man. I was shocked. I mean,
for 777
bucks for the potential of having a new
grill every 5 years for 50 years that
seemed like the juice might be worth of
squeeze if I said that right, but
I don't know. I... I asked James How
last week. Very covert.
If you're gonna be somebody that takes advantage
of that, what's the real
expectation that they're really gonna pay off all
the way through it. And
he seemed to be 50 50. He was
a little bit more,
tempered on...
Well, he's a little bit more bullish on
the fact that he thought they might pay
off more than not, but always comes back
with Caveat, of course. So
What do you think? You think you sign
up for it? You're gonna see
those line of grill every 5 years for
the next 50 or should you be happy
if you get half that amount?
Yeah. I think if you get, I'll say
3 grill out of it. That's a pretty
good pretty good deal. You know, that's 50
years is a long time, You know, that's
that's, you know,
what big green eggs with sixties, That would
is 60 years Yes. Yeah.
So, you know, and they've been around forever.
Expecting z to be around for the next
50 is kinda seems like AAA tall ask.
Any big stories that you're working on that
you wanna of tease?
I've got some reviews coming up that, know,
some products are really liked,
and then I've got an
an interview with,
Tom Pan who
runs all of W Bradley Grill brands
that should be out in the coming weeks.
So,
you know, just stay tuned.
Cook out news dot com is the website
and on the third Tuesday of the month
35 past the first hour. See this guy
right here on this show. It's to us
Right I always appreciate the time, and we
will see you in August.
Great. Thanks, Craig. You got it.
Our pal was right.
We got through the whole segment right there.
No problem.
Smoking and Joe was real early. Taken in
the fun and f formality of the show
of course.
These do up in about
15 minutes or so,
Alright so we're a little late. We'll
catch you I'm gonna stop it. Yep. Play
a little ketchup up with the clock here
and
Get in the second hour. So before we
do that, we will wrap the first hour,
stick around be right back. You're listening to
that Barbecue hughes Central show.
Continuing to produce incredibly mediocre
content
in an exceptionally
professional way. You'll sn and watching the Barbecue
Central show.
Once again, here's your host.
Craig Ram.
It's And we thank west wright for joining
us last segment. Cook out news dot com
his website, make sure that you sign up
for the weekend
refuel when you go there as well.
Every Saturday morning,
Sunday? I think Saturday.
You get an email in your inbox, recap
all the tops stories that West has been
writing on.
Maybe you miss some stuff, you are on
a account on a vacation, whatever.
This reminds you.
To head on over the website and check
on all the other stuff that you didn't
even mention, know.
Weekend refuel.
Our pallet right at cook news dot com.
So that brings a close to the first
hour. If you missed it, Don't worry. We'll
tell you about how you can go about
listening to that here in a few short
minutes.
In the meantime, you refresh your l,
and we are headed into the second hour,
stick around we'll be right back.