COLUMBIA, S.C., April 6
/PRNewswire/ — Barbeque and Blues – they share the same unique
Southern heritage, and this year TEC® Infrared Grills, sponsor of the Memphis in May Beale Street Music Festival,
is cooking it up at the nation’s top music festival, April 30 – May 2.
 From the stage, music lovers will enjoy an awesome lineup of performers
including the sounds of Hall and Oates, Earth Wind and Fire, Michael McDonald, and Wide Spread Panic.  Off
the grill, they’ll savor the moist and tender taste of TEC’s patented
100% infrared grilling system.

TEC® Infrared Grills
introduced the world’s first infrared gas grill in the early 1980’s.
 This grilling system used the same type ceramic burners that other
grill manufacturers put in their infrared grills today.  These grills
cook with about 35% infrared energy and 65% hot air.  But TEC’s
patented, new, cutting edge technology cooks food with 100% infrared
energy, totally eliminating the hot air associated with grilling that
dries out food.  The new TEC® grills reduce moisture loss in food by up
to 35% while imparting an authentic charbroil flavor.

Taking TEC’s center
stage at the festival will be the new G-Sport, TEC’s most versatile and
affordable full size grill.  Introduced last spring, the G-Sport won
Hearth and Home Magazine’s VESTA award for Best New Gas Barbeque of
2009.  This grill offers the highest and the lowest grilling
temperatures of any infrared grill today.  On high fire settings, the
G-Sport cooks with greater intensity and speed than other infrared
grills.  Food sears more rapidly but seldom sticks, creating restaurant
like grill marks on meats and vegetables for the ultimate presentation.
 On low fire, the G-Sport cooks dramatically cooler than traditional
infrared grills, allowing food to be slow roasted, smoked or barbequed.

Memphis‘ roots are deep in barbeque and music
in flavors and rhythms unique to the city, and the Beale Street Music
Festival, part of the month long Memphis
in May International Festival, was founded in 1977 to celebrate this
rich Southern heritage.

Thermal Engineering Corporation (TEC)