1. Choose Your Spot Place the smoker on a flat, fire-safe surface with good airflow. 2. Prep the Smoker Clean out ash and ensure vents are working. If it’s new, season with cooking oil and run at ...

I pulled into the gravel lot in front of M&M BBQ Company’s fabrication shop in Tool and saw four offset smokers piled behind a chain-link fence like old muscle cars in a scrapyard. They’d been ...

I decided to build a real Texas-style offset smoker from the ground up — Chuds BBQ style. From cutting and welding to testing the first fire, this project shows exactly how pitmasters make the perfect ...

The shop itself doesn’t look like much, just two guys (or, usually, one) hacking away at metal tanks and fusing the pieces back together with some keen welding chops. At well under 800 square feet in ...