America's Grill Masters

Since we had Country Style Ribs for Mother’s Day, it was only fitting that we grilled up some steaks for Father’s Day. For this meal we decided to use seasonings that you could run out to the local grocery store and pick up, just in case you are a mother who got ribs for Mother’s Day and you know you are going to be cooking for a special father that loves grilled meat and you are not familiar with cooking on a grill. Whew, that was a mouthful!

Steaks rubbed with McCormick seasonings

Let’s get started. The first thing you are going to do is grab a couple steak seasonings that are premixed and ready to go. If you already know what the father you are grilling for likes then pick that up. For this Father’s Day, we decided to try out a couple of McCormick seasonings...

In the first post of this series, we taught the young’uns to prepare country style ribs for the grill. After choosing their favorite rub, they applied it, put the ribs in bags and let them sit in the fridge for a day. The result was two fold, we had a lot of fun together and the ribs got well seasoned. Once the ribs had marinated for a day, it was time to teach them the second half of the process.

Weber charcoal chimney with lit lump charcoal

Since I had decided to let these ribs grill or smoke for an hour or so longer than normal I chose to use some hardwood lump charcoal from Cowboy Charcoal. This charcoal has been burning a little cooler than some of the briquettes in our testing, but it tends to burn longer which makes it a great choice for this application.

We stuffed the bottom of ou...