Where Professional Cooking Meets Live Fire
Custom grills. Professional recipes. Artisan tools. Every one of them built, cooked, and proven over live fire first.
Own The Fire isn't built around one product. It's built around the craft itself. I build the grills, choose the steel, work directly with the families who forge the knives, design the leather, develop the recipes, break down the animals, tend the fire, and teach the technique behind every step.
If it carries the Own The Fire name, it's because I use it.
Mike Riddle, Executive Chef Twenty Years Behind The Line
Everything you need.
Nothing you don't.
Custom builds, professional tools, and chef-tested recipes. One culinary house, built around live fire.
Brasero Grills
Custom Argentine parrilla and Santa Maria grills. Quarter-inch American plate, mortared firebrick-lined cooking chambers, hand-fabricated on Long Island.
Inquiry-Based Pricing Start Your Build
Artisan Knives™
Hand-forged by Brazilian master bladesmiths. Tested in my kitchen before they reach yours.
$195 to $995 Lifetime Craftsmanship Guarantee See The Collection
The Chef's Notebook
Not recipes. Capability. Print-first sheets that carry the temperature, the doneness cue, and the reason behind every step.
$39 One-Time Access Open The Notebook
Artisan Leather™
Aprons, knife rolls, and chef gear in full-grain hide that earns its patina with every cook.
$80 to $300 Shop Leather
Asado Tools
The implements every serious asador reaches for. Built for the ritual of live fire.
Shop The Range Shop Asado Tools
The Firekeeper
Hats, tees, and signature apparel for cooks who carry the Own The Fire banner.
$25 to $95 Shop The Firekeeper
The Creator's Kit
Brazilian chef knife, leather gear, and Santa Maria essentials. Everything you need to stop guessing and start cooking with intention.
$449 Complete Bundle Get The Kit
The Craft
Complete cooks, fire management, and the reasoning behind them. Watch it, print it, cook it. No signup.
Free To Explore Enter The Craft
Fire & Steel Chronicles
The thinking behind the work. Why I went to the source for asado, what the iron cross taught me, and the cuts most people walk past.
Free To Read Read The ChroniclesI didn't build this to sell you stuff.
After two decades in professional kitchens, I know what actually makes cooks better, and it is not more gadgets.
It is the right knife that feels like an extension of your hand. It is technique that holds up under pressure. It is understanding heat, timing, and why a thing works, instead of following a recipe and hoping.
Everything here exists for one reason. To make you a more confident cook.
Command the Flame. Rule the Craft.
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