The pellets are placed in a hopper, usually on the side, and they’re fed to a burn pot by an auger, and a combustion fan ...

This article is about how I built my vertical brick BBQ smoker. It wasn’t very difficult to do, it cost me only about $200, and it works quite well as a medium-large-capacity BBQ (does 50–75 pounds of ...

Murilo Mello may have sold only a few of his handmade smokers thus far, but his devotees rank among the top talent in Texas barbecue. Mello cut and welded those smokers by himself in three weeks, and ...

David Klose is America’s bell cow of extreme barbecue rigs. The founder of BBQ Pits by Klose in Houston, Texas has custom-built many of the world’s biggest, most beautiful and most ambitious smokers.

One of the most important inflection points in Texas barbecue occurred in 1974 when a company in Mesquite, J&R Manufacturing, began producing the Oyler barbecue pit. This cooking appliance combined an ...

Rollin Nolen's BBQ has officially opened to the public, marking a major milestone in owner TJ Nolen's decadelong journey in ...

Even when a pit room is air-conditioned, it’s never really cool. That’s the nature of the game when it comes to making Texas barbecue. When you have a constantly burning fire, using a mechanical ...

When the rest of the country looks at Missouri and reflects on its barbecue notoriety, they might turn to the western part of the state. But St. Louis is a barbecue city through and through – from our ...