“I haven’t actually told anyone about this,” Aaron Franklin said on the KCRW Good Food podcast, “but I really want to start making little backyard pits.” He was speaking to Evan Kleiman and the late ...

Corby Ferrell didn’t get the barbecue joint he was hoping for, but he did get to keep the smoker. Peggy Sue BBQ in University Park, which opened in 1946, closed for good in 2020, and Ferrell had plans ...

Aaron Franklin, master barbecue pitmaster and owner of Franklin Barbecue, has designed and released his own smoker. The pit is an offset smoker (the firebox, where the fuel burns, is attached to the ...

Just mere months after Jeff Gibbs assumed ownership of Smoker’s BBQ Pit, his business went up in flames. After acquiring the beloved barbeque restaurant in March of 2023, Gibbs was faced with an ...

Editor’s note: This is the first column in a series in which Reid provides advice on becoming a proficient backyard pitmaster. The column will focus on products, ingredients and services specific to ...

There was once a saying that the sun never set on the British Empire. Today it can also be said the fire never goes out in an Ole Hickory Pit smoker. At any given moment there are hundreds — even ...

It's no secret that Houston is home to some of the best barbecue joints around. But unless you're a truly serious backyard chef or part of a team of barbecue nomads that travels the country to compete ...

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.

The economic turmoil of the past three years continues to impact Texas barbecue, from how much it costs to how it’s made. On the supply side, the higher wholesale cost of beef has resulted in some ...

When you buy through our links, Business Insider may earn an affiliate commission. Learn more In keeping with the familiar, time-tested design of wood-pellet smokers, the Pit Boss Sportsman 850 is ...