Did you read the article at all? > do remember some folks taking issue with the idea that the reverse sear was your creation. > There’s a competition barbecu

Did you read the article at all? > do remember some folks taking issue with the idea that the reverse sear was your creation. > There’s a competition barbecue team, Iron Pig BBQ, who were doing a similar technique, but it wasn’t published anywhere. After we published it at Cook’s Illustrated, some people were, like, “Oh, yeah, this chef is doing it.” There were people concurrently doing it. The more generous claim would be that I independently came up with the idea, and certainly Cook’s Illustrated popularized it. How is this narcissistic?