What Is Yakitori?

Our guest is Michael Gerard who is the founder and president of Wildwood Ovens & BBQ based in California. https://wildwoodovens.com/ Michael manufactures various wood-fired cooking equipment including yakitori grills. Yakitori is grilled chicken on skewers and its simplicity demands tremendous skills and experience of the cook, not to mention great equipment. Michael is one of the very few yakitori grill manufacturers in the U.S. In this episode, we will discuss how Michael got into producing wood-fired cooking equipment, where his passion for high quality food comes from, what exactly yakitori is, a unique and powerful fuel used to make yakitori called binchotan and much, much more!!!

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