To be honest, when Robert came to me with the idea of having a cookout using a single hardwood log – something called a Swedish firelog – I didn’t think it would work. “You can go ahead and try, but I think you’ll be wasting your time, Robert.” The video below shows how deliciously wrong I was.
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