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 ...

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 ...

Editor's note: This is the second column in a series in which Reid provides advice to would-be barbecue entrepreneurs on "how to build the perfect barbecue joint." The first column addressed service ...

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, ...

I stood next to a steel smoker outside a small barbecue joint several years back while watching a pitmaster retrieve the meats I’d just ordered. He opened a door on a smoking cabinet to fetch the ...

I’m not sure when I first became obsessed with making a barbecue smoker out of a trash can. I remember seeing an episode of the Food Network’s Good Eats a few years ago in which host Alton Brown ...

If you're new to BBQ, the types of smokers on the market can be rather overwhelming. There are several different styles and fuel sources and price points. It's hard to fully grasp, which ones are good ...