Chef Ryan Udvett, Recipe Tester
Chef Ryan Udvett is a classically trained chef from Le Cordon Bleu in Chicago and serves as an official recipe tester for AmazingRibs.com. Chef Udvett has managed several restaurant kitchens and is currently the Product Development (R&D) Manager at CBQ, LLC a subsidiary of Carl Buddig and Company.
Paul Sidoriak, Griddling Expert
Paul Sidoriak’s official title with AmazingRibs.com is Fire Starter because he makes things happen in his role as Director of Relationships. Sidoriak is also the author of Exclusively Kamado and The Flippin’ Awesome Backyard Griddle Cookbook and has previously served as a BBQ consultant to several major brands.
Greg Rempe, Pitcaster
Known around the world for his two hour broadcast, the BBQ Central Show, Greg Rempe also produces a 30 minute weekly podcast for AmazingRibs.com Pitmaster Club members called The Pitcast. Each week he offers the latest news from the food and barbecue world. He also does occasional product reviews for AmazingRibs.com.
Henrik Oscarsson, Moderator
Henrik Oscarsson is an AmazingRibs.com Pitmaster Club moderator. He was born in the southern part of Sweden and he lives in Stockholm, the capital. He has a house in the country side where the smoker resides, so he’s there almost every weekend. He spent his senior year in high school as an exchange student in the US.
Nate Maliwacki, Video Recipes
Nate Maliwacki serves as a content creator for AmazingRibs.com, filming, editing, and producing instructional recipe videos for the site and for his own YouTube channel, White Thunder BBQ. His goal is to teach and inspire viewers to cook with live fire and to have fun while doing so.
Jim Maivald, Former SVP And Chief Technology Officer
Jim Maivald was head of our technical team for 15 years until he died in November 2023. He was an Adobe Certified Expert (ACE) and Adobe Certified Instructor (ACI) with over 30 years of experience working with graphic design. He has written 10 books and hundreds of articles on graphic design and electronic publishing.
Dr. Antonio “The Meat Geek” Mata, Meat Scientist
A meat scientist known as “The Meat Geek”, Dr. Antonio Mata, PhD (10/7/50 – 1/14/22) was a contributor to AmazingRibs.com and a Consulting Technical Coordinator to the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association. Mata discovered the Petite Tender and Las Vegas Strip Steak as well as being involved in the discovery of the flatiron steak.
Aaron “Huskee” Lyons, Manager of The Pitmaster Club, Moderator
Huskee is the manager of our Pitmaster Club and Comments Moderator on our public site. A KCBS Certified Barbeque Judge (CBJ), he experimented for a few years with a cheap Brinkmann cabinet charcoal smoker before graduating to a Yoder Wichita offset smoker. His arsenal has since expanded to nine cookers.
Lisa Lynott, Artist & Illustrator
An artist and illustrator for AmazingRibs.com, Lisa Kolek studied illustration and graphic design at the American Academy of Art, Chicago, and scientific and botanical illustration at the Morton Arboretum. A senior designer at the Brookfield Zoo, Lisa’s animal and plant illustrations have appeared in zoo exhibits.
JT (Jeff Tracy), The Cowboy Cook, Interviewer Extraordinaire For The Pitmster Club
Known as “The Cowboy Cook” and a capable griller in his own right, JT (Jeff Tracy) loves to interview great cooks like Aaron Franklin, Steven Raichlen, Tuffy Stone, Wayne Mueller, Amy Mills, Meathead, and other notables from the BBQ world. These interviews can now also be found in AmazingRibs.com’s Pitmaster Club.
Jerry King, Pitmaster Club Cartoonist
Acclaimed cartoonist Jerry King creates original barbecue and grilling cartoons exclusively for AmazingRibs.com’s Pitmaster Club. His client list also includes Disney, American Greetings, and many other companies around the globe. After serving in the Army, King went on to graduate from The Ohio State University.
Jason King, Videos
In addition to serving as a video content creator for AmazingRibs.com, Jason King loves to cook and shoot videos. His role with the site began when he began filming videos of AmazingRibs.com recipes. Today several of them appear alongside the recipes on AmazingRibs.com as well as the BBQFOOD4U page on Youtube.
Ray W. Johnson, Webmaster
Ray Johnson is AmazingRibs.com’s lead vBulletin programmer, having heavily customized the software that runs the site’s Pitmaster Club. Nicknamed “RayJ”, Johnson has 35 years of comprehensive computer knowledge, with extensive experience in hardware, software, networking, programming, and operating systems.
David Joachim, Editorial Director
Editorial Director of AmazingRibs.com, David Joachim has authored, edited, or collaborated on more than 50 cookbooks, four of them on barbecue and grilling, and his Food Science column appeared in “Fine Cooking” magazine from 2011 to 2019.
Max Good, Vice President of Product Reviews & Keeper of the Flame
As AmazingRibs.com’s Vice President of Product Reviews & Keeper of the Flame, Max Good is the man in charge of finding the best products for the AmazingRibs.com Equipment Reviews section. Max loves barbecue so much that he took his barbecue sauce recipes, had them bottled, and now sells them around the country.