Steven Invites the 500 Club to “Ask Me Anything!”
The Steven Raichlen 500 Club 2025 Challenge
The 500 Club began 2025 with a Challenge! We invited all our 500 Club members to try a Steven Raichlen recipe that they had never made before with a different kind of food, the cuisine of a foreign country, or a novel method of preparation completely new to them, then take a photo and post it to our Club site.
Then we asked Steven to give his 500 Club Challenge participants the opportunity to speak with him in person. He replied with an enthusiastic Yes! (as he always does), so we invited his followers and a couple of old friends (as a surprise) to have a Zoom call. What a great turnout we had and what a fun chat it was with the Grill Master himself! There is one thing you can always count on when you talk BBQ with Steven. You will learn something new that will up your grill game!
Our call participants…
Steven Raichlen
Federico Olivo Gonars, Italy
Who with friend Marco Minin, has a BBQ Club called Gonars and holds huge grill events for the entire town.
James Grill Normandie, France
An old friend of Stevens who Invented the fantastic Startngrill we now use.
Tomas Dytrych Vilemov, Czech Republic
Another old friend Steven calls the SR of Czechia who owns a huge, beautiful BBQ store in Czechia.
Frank & Kelley Deturo Clermont, Florida
35 recipes away from 500! True grillmasters and 500 Club co-founders.
Rob Kettenring El Centro, Washington
Started SR Project Fire, Smoke, Primal Grill FB site with over 24k members.
Bryan Bell Saskatchewan, Canada
Bravely contends with 40 below temps to grill SR recipes whenever he can. A true aficionado of the BBQ arts.
Bernie Pass Arizona
Maybe the most beautiful grill collection ever seen and loves great BBQ as much as anyone I’ve ever known.
Susan Ortiz Silverton, Oregon
Has a Kamado grill she named Dr Myard and churns out SR recipes faster than we do.
Robert & Alynne Douglass Manilva Spain
Founders of the 500 Club and huge SR fans! Our Question for Steven? How is it possible to write 32 books?
What the members are saying…
James Grill
“Hello everyone, thank you for this video, always a pleasure to see Steven and a great pleasure to have you, it’s a shame not to understand and speak the language of the Grill Masters.”
Bernie Pass
“What a wonderful experience! Thanks to Steven for doing it and to Alynne and Robert for making it happen. What a great and diverse group of people brought together by Steven’s unique and delicious take on cooking. Kudos to you and Robert for starting and running this group, it is really a gift in the sea of far lesser FB groups!”
Bryan Praetorian
“So great to participate in this event. Thanks for the opportunity to see (meet) everyone.”
Marco Minin
“I’m really sorry I couldn’t attend the event, next time I won’t miss it! A big greeting to Steven, Robert and all of you grillers!!”
Robert Douglass
“A great opportunity to talk a little BBQ with the Master! All agree that Stevens global live fire recipes are the bomb! I always learn something new every time I talk with Steven! Thanks to everyone for being on the call.”
Susan Ortiz
“Robert Douglass thank you for being a fantastic moderator. Alynne Douglass thank you for your “IT” expertise and arranging the 2 part call that is genius! Steven Raichlen thanks again for your time always interesting! For the rest of the BBQ philes it was nice to get to know you and thank you for sharing.”
Grilování CZ
“It was amazing meeting. Great to see you all. Thank you for that Robert Douglass “
Rob Kettenring
“Had a great time! Thank you, Robert and Alynne, for putting it together and a special thanks to Steven for taking the time to chat!”
Frank DeTuro
“We always love hearing from Steven! It was a great session.
Happy to meet all!”
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