Discover the amazing range of things you can cook on your outdoor griddle with this concise volume-packed with color photos and incredibly delicious recipes-at your side. There's a new favorite in the backyard-cooking arsenal: the "flattop" griddle. Flattops get the heat out of the kitchen and into the open air, where they turn out outstanding quick-grilled meals in mere minutes. They use high heat and a minimum amount of oil, which, in addition to being fast and convenient, is a very healthy way to cook. The recipes in this inventive and eminently useful book include:

• Sizzling breakfasts, from Breakfast Crepes to Grilled Cheese Breakfast Burritos
• Tacos, quesadillas, stir-fries, and other recipes that make flattop cooking an adventuresome, truly global way to cook
• Several distinct recipes for the most iconic flattop recipe of all-the smash burger
• Loads of beef, chicken, and seafood main courses that ensure your family and friends are very well-fed indeed
• Fun snacks, such as State Fair Funnel Cakes and Cheesesteak Egg Rolls

With lots of tricks and tips for how to maintain, clean, and use your flattop, alongside the griddle-tested recipes sure to please eaters of any age, this is a fun and authoritative book that will make you truly happy you invested in an outdoor griddle.

The Editors of the Harvard Common Press, and of the Quarto Publishing Group of which the press is an imprint, have decades of experience creating exciting, practical, and best-selling books on foods and beverages for hobbyists and everyday home cooks.