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B & B Charcoal Products This last year, we’ve all been spending a little more time outside around the grill. But at B & B Charcoal, there are 60 years of grilling experience rooted deep in Texas-style barbecue. B & B Charcoal is just happy to see people getting as excited about the pitmaster lifestyle as it is. Did you know B & B isn’t just the popular “orange bag” of competition oak briquettes that you see stocked high at the SCA competitions? B & B Charcoal has everything from wood pellets, kiln-dried cooking wood, smoking wood chips and chunks, and its signature lump charcoal, briquettes, and char-logs. If you’ve got a grill, B & B Charcoal has got a fuel for you that burns hotter, longer, with less ash waste and more authentic wood smoke flavor. With more than 60 products to choose from, B & B Charcoal knows that sometimes just picking one out can be rough, so let’s go over some tips to help make the best use of its better burning charcoal at your next cookout.
5 Tips for Better Grilling with B & B Charcoal 1. Not all charcoal is created equal. Start by choosing the right fuel. Different charcoal burns at different temps and durations. Choosing the right charcoal for your grill is the first step. Most grill manufacturers will recommend briquettes, lump charcoal, or even wood logs to burn evenly while cooking. Make sure you start with what is best for the grill and your desired temp before you begin cooking. By default, go with Oak Lump Charcoal for most grills.
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Marra Forni Mobile Brick Oven Trailer System
Marra Forni Mobile Brick Oven Trailer System enables you to easily transform your business into a mobile operation while offering high volume and quality cooking. The Marra Forni Pizza Oven Trailer is perfect for positioning outside of an existing restaurant, transporting between various locations, and featuring at multiple venues and pop-up events. Marra Forni Brick Oven Trailers are ideal for those looking to expand their operation and increase revenue by giving businesses the opportunity to comfortably go where their customers are. The brick oven trailer is the perfect option for those wanting to serve authentic, artisan pizza at weddings, banquets, graduation parties, and more. The Marra Forni Mobile Oven Trailers’ versatility is one of the greatest valueadded features, built in Beltsville, Maryland, and are perfect for in-town mobile livefire catering. What makes the small utility trailers unique is that they can be towed with any car and can be taken anywhere. Some spaces, including certain backyards, for example, are off-limits to larger trailers, but this one can be brought in by hand. They make it easy to service customers who don’t need a large entry gate or huge yard in order. The mobile brick ovens can be hauled with a regular car and maneuvered comfortably by hand. Extremely easy to run, the all-metal trailer is available with gas or wood options. In these models, only the deck is made with signature Marra Stone bricks, which helps to keep the ovens lightweight and effective. In addition, they allow for wood storage and possible cooler storage. The rear lighting affords optimal flexibility
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New Products from Bally Refrigerated Boxes Inc.
Bally Refrigerated Boxes is a leading manufacturer of walk-in cooler and freezer solutions for the foodservice, scientific, warehousing, and modular structure industries. With multiple manufacturing facilities and more than 88 years of experience, Bally’s offerings bring unparalleled benefits for customers. Bally’s standard panel construction, such as a steel reinforced door/frame and diaphragmatic joining system, create an internal and fully interconnected steel cage, within all panels, that provide for a lifetime of structural integrity/durability that is unmatched. Bally is not only your source for insulated panels. It is also a leading supplier of refrigeration equipment for the foodservice and refrigerated building industries. Bally evaporators range from low-profile models to medium- and high-profile refrigerated building coils. Its low-profile evaporators are furnished standard with award-winning Smart Speed™ technology. This energy efficient and environmentally friendly technology works by utilizing two-speed speed fan motors to reduce the energy consumption by 80 percent per fan. Condensing units are available with scroll, hermetic or semi-hermetic compressors, all utilizing environmentally friendly refrigerants. Combined with award-winning, innovative, and energy-saving refrigeration solutions (SmartVap™, SmartVap+™, SmartSpeed™, and BQ- “Quiet” technologies) Bally offers unsurpassed dependability, quality, and value for all customers. Bally has enhanced its popular adaptive defrost SmartVap/SmartVap+ controls. Operators can seamlessly toggle between adaptive defrost and timed defrost capabilities to select the option that best fits their specific needs. Additionally, this intuitive technology operates seamlessly with manual or newer electronic expansion valves as Continued on Page 9
Furniture, Home Goods Soared in 2020, Spurred by Pandemic ‘At-Home’ Lifestyle
2020 was a banner year for the furniture and home goods market, with millions of consumers quarantined in their homes for work and school. The pandemic “at-home” lifestyle highlighted the importance of investing in home decor, with nearly 60 percent of Americans redecorating their homes with products that made them comfortable and functional, according to a new nationwide survey by mobile resale marketer OfferUp. Furniture that put the focus on relaxing, such as beds, sofas, rugs, lamps and pillows, were most popular, according to the survey. However, much of that boon was on the resale market, with a $27 billion shift from retail to resale, according to the company. Resale marketplaces were the fastest-growing retail channel for home products such as desks, exercise equipment and electronics, the survey showed. More than a third of Americans bought home products in 2020 on resale apps, saving $400 on average compared to traditional retail costs, OfferUp said. As retail stores were forced to close during the pandemic and in-store supplies ran low, Americans turned to online resale marketplaces, the company said. Furniture and home goods recommerce grew by 17 percent in 2020 and is expected to become a $23.6 million market by 2025, the company said in a press release. Two-thirds of American homes have home goods and furniture bought through resale, the company estimated. The pandemic also forced more than 10 percent of Americans to move, the company said, with 40 percent of them choosing more spacious homes and bringing the necessity to buy more furniture. The two rooms most closely associated with relaxing were the most redecorated – the bedroom, 36 percent, and living room, 35 percent, the survey showed. Continued on Page 9
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Thursday, October 21, 2021
Old Masters Focuses on Do-It-Yourself Wood Finishing Old Masters is nationally recognized for its comprehensive stains and finishes retail programs for independent paint, hardware, and specialty woodworking retailers. Based in Orange City, Iowa, Old Masters manufactures wood finishing products for the woodworking enthusiast and homeowner who takes pride in maintaining their own home. Old Masters offers a variety of stains that are crafted to fulfill a variety of woodworking needs. As many homeowners are tackling home projects because of the pandemic, products that help them successfully complete projects, especially first-time wood finishing projects, are important. Old Masters offers three unique wood stains, each formulated to highlight and enhance the natural beauty of wood and deliver a user experience that will build brand trust. Wiping Stain is a thick bodied interior wood stain with good open time allowing for easy application and superior color control. Wiping Stain is perfect for those new to wood finishing, as it is easier to control its application, especially for difficult to stain woods such as pine,
birch, maple, poplar, and cherry. It also excels on previously finished surfaces, veneers, fiberglass, metal, and composition surfaces, achieving a rich, uniform color in a single application. Wiping Stain can be applied by brush, rag, or spray, and is available in 24 trend colors, including the newest stain color, Carbon Black, a rich classic black that is modern and sophisticated. Gel Stain is a highly pigmented, oil-based stain designed to achieve intense colors on interior wood, fiberglass, primed metal, and composition surfaces. Its thick formula allows easy application and superior color control necessary to achieve a rich and uniform color. Gel Stain can be applied by soft rag or brush and is excellent for vertical surfaces like doors, cabinets, and antiquing. Gel Stain is a popular choice for cabinet updates where a new stain color can be applied over an existing wood finish. Gel Stain is available in the same 24 trend colors as Wiping Stain for easy coordination of color throughout a home. Fast Dry Stain is the newest pene-
Hardware & Housewares Review trating stain offering do-it-yourselfers and professional woodworkers a stain with intensified depth of color and clarity, enhancing the natural wood grain. Users are quickly adopting fast dry penetrating stains for their rapid dry times as they allow projects to be topcoated in less time than traditional wood stains. Old Masters Fast Dry Stain is great for interior hardwood surfaces including wood floors, interior door and trim, furniture, and general woodworking. Fast Dry Stain is available in 23 popular trend colors for easy coordination of projects, and can be brushed, sprayed, or wiped onto a surface. Wood finishing is typically a project that can be completed successfully by those of varied skill levels. Resources to support with selection, prep, and application, along with how-to resources, are important to these users. Learn more about our online resources at www.myoldmasters.com/learn.
For more information, visit booth #W744, email robert.reints@myoldmasters.com or go to www.myoldmasters.com.
rent product line covers a wide array of outdoor lighting categories, ranging from pools, backyards, gardens, and even wall lighting. Techko Solar Pool Lights features a patented stabilizing technology to help ensure the solar panel is always facing upwards towards the sun while providing decorative lighting over the pool and a nice ambience to the environment. Outdoor solar torch lighting is also a focus that the company has taken an interest in. From utilizing LED technology to generate authentic dancing flames to providing standard amber or white lighting options, these lights are great for lining pathways or decorating event locations while maintaining a great level of visibility at night.
Self-Tensioning Ratchet from Erickson Manufacturing Erickson Manufacturing is excited to introduce the Self-Tensioning Ratchet. This strap was designed to create more peace of mind for the user. Erickson is confident it will become your favorite strap and will change the tie down market. A normal ratchet can become loose in rough conditions or if there is a load shift. The Self-Tensioning Ratchet eliminates these concerns, as it will
take up to 2 inches of slack so it doesn’t become loose from rough conditions or load shifts. The key to this revolutionary new product is the coil springs on each side. If there is a load shift while you’re driving, the springs will automatically kick in and take up the extra slack until you can safely readjust your cargo. Erickson's newest cargo nets are made from 1-inch polyester webbing
GelPro Elite Comfort Mat Indulge in extra-soft and deep-cushioning support as your feet rest on a stylish and comfortable floor mat. The Elite is the flagship of the company’s comfort
mats and the product behind starting GelPro. The conforming feel of gel plus foam feels so natural that you can for-
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Lighting Options from Techko Kobot Techko Kobot, established in 1982, went from consumer telephone to producing a DIY security product under the brand Techko, later expanding into paper shredders, office equipment, robotic vacuum (Kobot), and in 2020 introducing a new product line in solar lighting. Products are in many national retailers with impeccable track records. The company believes that going green is the sustainable future and has the potential to expand and improve in features. Techko stands behind creating high quality products at affordable prices that everyday consumers can enjoy. Techko has been expanding its online brand presence for solar lighting, which can now be found with most national retailers within the U.S. The cur-
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Techko also offers many variations of solar portable lanterns and mounted wall lanterns for consumers to utilize throughout their outdoor environments. Great for backyards, patios, even parks and camping locations. Providing a wide array of lighting options, from amber/flame, amber/white to multicolor, allows for the perfect option for every occasion, all while maintaining the company standard of a minimum IP65 rating for solar lighting products. Traditional outdoor wall lighting is also something Techko wishes to focus on, providing a self-sufficient source of outdoor lighting in areas where it may be too difficult to install wired lighting or with two sizes available. One for short bed trucks (66 inches by 70 inches) and another option for long bed trucks (66 inches by 85 inches). Erickson wanted to make them as universal as possible, so they feature six sewn on anchor tabs in each corner to allow the user to adjust the fit to their specific cargo. Each corner has a D-ring tie down option and Erickson has included four cam-buckle get that you are standing. This revolutionary comfort solution is perfect for anyone who spends a lot of time on their feet. Spills wipe right off to make cleaning a breeze.
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just to save on the home electrical bill. Multiple styles are available, including standard ambient lighting and directional lighting for a more decorative look to a location. Also, some solar lights feature motion sensors to provide light on an asneeded basis, as opposed to constantly remaining throughout the entire night. Techko Kobot is looking to further expand its lighting categories in the future and provide consumers with an even greater array of options to meet their needs for a more self-sustaining future.
For more information, visit booth #W4048 or email info@techkogroup.com. tie downs to make it a complete set. When straps just can’t get every piece of your cargo, a cargo net is your solution. Cargo nets are able to span the distance of your cargo to ensure no pieces are lost. Remember, if you Tie-It, Tow-It, or LoadIt, Erickson’s got it!
For more information, go to booth #1025.
GelPro Elite is offered in hundreds of pattern and color combinations and manufactured in Waco, Texas. For more information, go to www.gelpro.com.
Thursday, October 21, 2021
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Wax-It-All Food-Grade Paste Wax Howard Wax-It-All is a food-grade paste wax that is safe for any surface where food contact may occur. This thick, smooth blend of beeswax, carnauba wax, and food-grade mineral oil helps to revive, seal and protect surfaces in and around your home. Use Wax-It-All on butcher block, concrete, stainless steel, granite, marble, soapstone, slate, and
laminate countertop surfaces, metal, plastic furniture, and painted cabinets. Wax-It-All enhances beauty and protects surfaces to make them look better and last longer. It's easy to use - simply rub the wax on, let it absorb and buff off any excess. It's safe for indoor and outdoor countertop surfaces, helps delay tarnishing and oxidation of bronze, copper,
B & B Charcoal (Cont’d. from p. 1)
2. No lighter fluid needed. B & B Charcoal's products are 100 percent natural wood products. Don’t tarnish that great subtle smoke flavor with chemical lighter fluids. Use a charcoal chimney with all-natural fire starters to get your grill going in under 20 minutes. 3. Blend your flavors. Add layers of flavor to Marra Forni (Cont’d. from p. 1)
for maneuvering from day to night. Chefs and aspiring pizzaioli can craft artisan pizzas, sizzling proteins, and fire-roasted vegetables in seconds thanks to this model. Despite their compact and convenient size, these Mobile Brick Oven Trailer Systems afford the same Bally Refrigerated Boxes (Cont’d. from p. 1)
well as providing the operator with a vast array of reporting. Newly launched for the designers and consultant communities are cuttingedge, easy-to-use tools. Bally is proud to announce the launching of a fully functional and easy-to-use Revit family for walk-in panel and refrigeration Home Goods (Cont’d. from p. 1)
The home market’s fastest-growing category was homewares, which increased by 10 percent, or 2.8 times the average annual growth rate for the past
For more information, 800.266.9545, email call custserv@howardproducts.com or go to www.howardproducts.com.
18 inches wide, 7-1/4 inches high and 5/8 inches thick. Supply is limited. The cutting board is made from natural wood, so each piece will vary slightly in shape. This eco-friendly wood resists both mold and stains, and it is 100 percent all
for weeks. The end result is the one-of-akind Twister Jar. With the Twister jar, all you have to do is turn on the blender and twist the lid. The two tines on the Twister lid push the nuts back to the blade while you’re blending. The result: warm, creamy nut butter in seconds. Want it crunchy? Just add a few nuts at the end of the cycle and pulse. Not into nut butters? The Twister jar also works great for making perfectly blended hummus, flavored cream cheese and other thick spreads. Additionally, the
jar is the right size for singleserving smoothies, baby food and many other recipes. Whatever you’ve blended, you can use the custom-designed and specially contoured Spectacula, which comes with the Twister jar, to remove every last delicious bit from the jar. The latest craze among smoothie shops and enthusiasts alike is creating beautiful Brazilian-style acai breakfast bowls. Normally, blenders have real trouble turning frozen acai into deliciously smooth paste, and that’s another reason the Twister Jar has come to
fruition. Using the Twister lid, you can easily scrape the sides while the blade is still in motion, sending stray pieces and chunks back into the blending vortex. The result? An amazingly smooth acai base just begging for fresh strawberries, blueberries, granola, shredded coconut and whatever else your taste buds are begging you for.
and slow cooks to know the internal temperature of the meat to know if you need to add fresh charcoal to your grill. A smoker with an ambient temperature option is a huge help to maintaining your heat.
B & B is the proud official sponsor of the Steak Cookoff Association, with a team of award-winning pitmasters as ambassadors to educate and inspire cooks across America to enjoy the flavor of authentic Texas-style barbecue. What are you waiting for? It’s time to taste #BetterBurning Barbecue.
Blendtec’s Twister Jar There’s nothing like dipping a cold, crisp apple into warm, creamy almond butter. People used to make nut butters in their Blendtec Fourside and Wildside+ jar by adding oil or stopping the blender midcycle to scrape partially blended nuts off the sides of the jar. That worked, but Blendtec's engineers thought there had to be a better way. Blendtec brainstormed dozens of concepts, selected the ones most likely to work and started prototyping. The engineering lab smelled like almond butter
USA with food-grade ingredients under strict quality controls. Start selling Howard today. Wax-It-All Minimum wholesale orders are only six cases.
natural, lightweight, and durable olive wood. Its popularity has picked up recently. The board retails for $29.95. Franmara, Inc has many more cheese accessories, wine accessories, barware and cigar accessories that
Franmara Natural Olivewood Boards Add rustic style to the kitchen with Natural Olivewood Boards, handcrafted with unique patterns, grains and color variation. The 6652 Olivewood Trunk Cutting Board is truly a unique presentation. Genuine olive wood, it's approximately
brass, and even wrought iron, and gives finishes a soft sheen and a smooth feel. Use Wax-It-All to lock in the oils and waxes after using Howard's other foodgrade products. It's great for woodworkers who need a hard, carnauba wax finish. Howard Wax-It-All is made in the
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your cook once the fire is going by mixing in wood chunks to the coals. Add subtle fruit woods, apple or cherry, for mild foods, like fish or fire-roasted veggies, or mesquite for that hot and fast true Texas barbecue flavor. Not sure which to grab? The Championship Blend is perfect for a versatile range of foods.
4. Forget the time, it’s all about temp. Watch your fuel throughout the day, use a built-in thermometer or meat probe for low
cooking performance and versatility as all of the company’s ovens do. Since the temperature can also heat up to 900 degrees Fahrenheit, you can make authentic Neapolitan pizza. You can also cook the ingredients of your choice slower and at lower temperatures, which increases menu options. The brick deck enables you to use cast iron pans, which
5. Rest. The best thing about BBQ is the time spent with friends and family enjoying life. So sit back and enjoy the slow times, and make sure to rest your barbecue before slicing into it and serving.
are perfect for searing proteins and even desserts and bread. Temperature controls on the gas version are as easy as they are on a range. All that you need to do is turn on the ignition, open the gas and then turn up the fire. Customization colors on the trailer include grey, black, and red. Marra Forni Mobile Trailer System also has a stain-
are all available in its new 50th anniversary catalog and online. See the new catalog at viewer.zoomcatalog.com/ franmara-2020-no-pricing.
For more information, call 800.423.5855 or go to www.franmara.com.
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less-steel retractable table that slides from inside the trailer. This convenient feature enables you to save space and can be taken out and used wherever you are working. For more information, go to www .marraforni.com, call 888.239.0575, or email inquiries@marraforni.com.
wide network of factory representatives are also available to assist you in the design of your application, regardless of size. Bally is the proven dependable choice specified around the world. Remember ... Nothing Beats a Bally!
designs. Additionally, its AutoCAD design tools have gone through a complete redesign/update in order to enhance the creative capabilities and simplify the user interface. Finally, Bally will be launching Napkin Sketch technology. Easily design a basic walkin cooler/freezer in front of your customers on your mobile device. The initial designs can then be printed, emailed
and/or incorporated directly into AutoCAD or Revit. All these tools are accessible via KCL. For additional information on Bally’s product offerings, visit www.ballyrefboxes.com. There, you will find a vast amount of information to help you with your cold-storage selections. Keep in mind, Bally’s experienced inside sales staff and its nation-
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five years. Kitchenware did exceptionally well as more people cooked at home and experimented with baking. Spending on home decor increased by $27.2 billion compared to 2019, which is the equivalent of everyone in the
U.S. spending $82 more on home products, according to the survey. One-third of Americans said they used or plan to use stimulus check money to finance home redecoration, with a quarter of Americans saying they
planned to use money from their 2021 tax return to redecorate. From July to October, desks were the second-most-searched item on OfferUp’s resale marketplace. As gyms shut down, the demand rose for exercise equipment.