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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Predictability is a foreign concept when it comes to wood fires in a barbecue smoker. Proper control of the coals and smoke produced by burning wood over the course of a dozen or so hours is what ...

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, ...

Franklin Barbecue owners Aaron and Stacy Franklin are serious about helping home cooks make better barbecue. (And steaks.) After two cookbooks, the Franklins are now launching a line of barbecue pits ...