Smoking Meat

Discover how to smoke various types of meat

Smoked Country Style Beef Ribs
Pork

How to Smoke Ribs in Half the Time

(The Ultimate 250°F Quick-Smoke Guide) We all love a great rack of low-and-slow smoked ribs. But let’s be honest: spending 6 hours managing a pit and monitoring long timelines isn’t always realistic when you want a great weekend meal fast. This is where country-style pork ribs become your absolute best […]

 
Beef

How to Smoke Beef Chuck Short Ribs

How to Smoke Beef Chuck Short Ribs (The Practical Weekend Masterclass) If you love the intense, rich beef flavor and bark of giant plate ribs but don’t want to baby a smoker for 9 to 10 hours on a Sunday, your solution is sitting right in the chuck section of […]

 
smoked pork ribs
Pork

Which Pork Ribs Should I Buy?

(Baby Backs vs. St. Louis Style) A good feed of tender smoked pork ribs must mean that summer has arrived. What could be better than sharing some perfectly smoked ribs and all the trimmings with your friends and family on a hot summer day? However, walking up to the butcher […]

 
chicken breasts and thighs
Poultry, Smoked

How to Smoke Chicken Breasts and Thighs

(The Ultimate Juicy Chicken) Chicken is easily the most popular meat to throw on a backyard pit, but it is also the most notoriously difficult to get right. If you treat a lean, skinless chicken breast the exact same way you treat a rich, bone-in chicken thigh, you run into […]

 
side dishes with smoked meat
Pork, Sides

Smoked Campfire Pork and Beans

When you are committing 12 to 14 hours of wood fire to a beautiful weekend brisket or pork shoulder, leaving the bottom grates of your smoker completely empty is a missed opportunity. You need a heavy-hitting, rich side dish that can sit in that chamber, soak up that clean hardwood […]

 
Smoked beef ribs
Beef

How to Smoke Beef “Dino” Plate Ribs

If you want to serve the absolute show-stopper of backyard barbecue—a piece of meat that makes everyone stop what they are doing to pull out their cell phones and take a picture—you don’t buy a brisket or a pork shoulder. You buy a three-bone slab of Beef Plate Short Ribs. […]