Home smoking has grown in popularity in recent years, with more and more people entering the world of smoking meats and vegetables from the comfort of home. There are two main types of smokers to ...

Pizzitola’s Bar-B-Cue has gone through many transformations in its 87-year history in Houston. The original location was bulldozed to make way for Interstate 10. A name change came along with new ...

If you were an aspiring barbecue pitmaster 60 years ago, you had one choice of barbecue pit. You hand-built a rectangular brick pit with an "offset" firebox on one end and a smokestack on the other, ...

Above-ground brick pits with a firebox to the side (offset) of the cooking chamber is the quintessential cooking appliance of Central Texas-style barbecue. This device gave rise to “indirect-heat” ...

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 ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: Char-Broil / Traeger Home smoking has grown in popularity in recent years, with more and ...