{"id":954,"date":"2007-05-28T07:23:32","date_gmt":"2007-05-28T12:23:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2007\/05\/happy-barbecue-day\/"},"modified":"2007-05-28T07:23:12","modified_gmt":"2007-05-28T12:23:12","slug":"happy-barbecue-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2007\/05\/happy-barbecue-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Barbecue Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" align=\"left\" width=\"64\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/05\/windowslivewritermemorialdaybarbeque-8d44bbq6.jpg?resize=64%2C81\" height=\"81\" style=\"margin: 5px 10px 0px 0px; border-width: 0px\" \/> We&#8217;re set to enjoy the unofficial start of summer here at <em>The Hire Sense<\/em> by doing what most Americans do this day &#8211; fire up the barby.  Being the slaves to pop culture that we are, I have to share this article from foxnews.com with you &#8211; <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/story\/0,2933,275513,00.html\">Coming Soon to a Barbecue Near You: Infrared Burners<\/a>.  I wasn&#8217;t aware of this technology but now my interest (and hopefully yours, too) is piqued.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>For a quarter century, chefs at pricey steakhouses have been searing meat on burners that cook with infrared energy. Now the high-temperature technology may be coming to a backyard barbecue near you.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>With the expiration of a key patent, major gas grill manufacturers, including market leader Char-Broil, have scrambled to bring infrared cooking to the masses with models in the $500 to $1,000 range. Previously, such grills cost as much as $5,000.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Infrared has done to the grill business what the microwave did to the indoor kitchen,&#8221; he said. &#8220;It&#8217;s presenting consumers with a whole new way of cooking.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Enjoy this day and may your grill hot!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re set to enjoy the unofficial start of summer here at The Hire Sense by doing what most Americans do this day &#8211; fire up the barby. Being the slaves to pop culture that we are, I have to share this article from foxnews.com with you &#8211; Coming Soon to a Barbecue Near You: Infrared Burners. I wasn&#8217;t aware of this technology but now my interest (and hopefully yours, too) is piqued. For a quarter century, chefs at pricey steakhouses have been searing meat on burners that cook with infrared energy. Now the high-temperature technology may be coming to a backyard barbecue near you. With the expiration of a key&hellip; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2007\/05\/happy-barbecue-day\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"","bgseo_robots_follow":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5Oho-fo","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":735,"url":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2007\/03\/flexible-hours-expected\/","url_meta":{"origin":954,"position":0},"title":"Flexible Hours Expected","author":"Derrick Moe","date":"March 8, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"CareerJournal.com's Bend Without Breaking: Women Execs Discuss Flex Schedules is an interesting take on a woman's leadership challenges.\u00a0 This quote is what caught my attention: Michele Coleman Mayes, senior vice president and general counsel of Pitney Bowes, says one of the main rules she learned early in her career --\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Hiring&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Hiring","link":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/category\/hiring\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1484,"url":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2008\/03\/web-commute\/","url_meta":{"origin":954,"position":1},"title":"Web Commute","author":"Derrick Moe","date":"March 26, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"That is a term coined by Citrix and one I suspect we will see with some frequency.\u00a0 If gas goes to $4\/gallon, I suspect these articles will publish daily.\u00a0 ManageSmarter.com offers up an article discussing the preference of today's workers to have technological flexibility in their job.\u00a0 The key here\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Generations&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Generations","link":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/category\/generations\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1523,"url":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2008\/04\/fastest-dying-industries\/","url_meta":{"origin":954,"position":2},"title":"Fastest Dying Industries","author":"Derrick Moe","date":"April 18, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Clearly newspapers are the poster child for this topic.\u00a0 ABCnews.com approaches this topic with research that forecasts industry changes over the next 5 years.\u00a0 Some of their predictions and suggestions: Another way to avoid disaster? 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