There's no replicating the fall-apart goodness and smokey flavor and aroma of perfectly smoked meat, you need a smoker, and you need 25 Essentials: Techniques for Smoking. So you've just purchased a new smoker or grill. It's time to expand your repertoire backyard cookout skills and learn how to use it like a seasoned vet. Just imagine the perfectly tender briskets, pork shoulders for pulled pork, the myriad of ribs you'll be cooking up. Grab some wood chips and a copy of 25 Essentials: Techniques for Smoking, because it's time to get cooking. This guide book to harnessing the power of your smoker gets into the nitty-gritty techniques every good grillmaster needs to know, like the best way to slow smoke ribs, basting and smoking meat to peak excellence, smoking whole vegetables, and the finer points of mopping and brining your fare. So what are you waiting for? Get smoking and get eating.

"Cooking on a plank is the simplest way to infuse your food with the subtle taste and aroma of smoke. Best part is, you don't need a fancy rig, special equipment, or complicated directions to start planking. All you really need is a board and this book. With the 25 essential techniques you'll find in these pages, you'll be planking like a pro in no time - outdoors and in." -- p. [4] of cover.

Master of backyard cooking A. Cort Sinnes presents 25 sure-fire techniques for cooking with a wood-fired oven, each introduced by a delectable, smoke-infused recipe—including breads and pizzas, fish, poultry, meats, vegetables, and sides. Mouthwatering photography with every recipe provides incentive to fire up. Succulent, smoky, and sublime. Wood-fired ovens are all about enjoyment: enjoying the process of cooking with them and enjoying the deeply flavorful results. This essential guide to cooking with both white and black fire ovens teaches you to embrace and master the unpredictability of wood-fired cooking. An introduction provides the basics of cooking in a wood-fired oven, including the types of ovens available, general guidelines, cooking temperatures and times, a guide to what accessories to have on hand, and tips on safety. Then move right on to impressing your guests with these amazing dishes and more: ·Pizza Bianca ·Swordfish Fillets Wrapped in Prosciutto ·Whole Roasted Butterflied Turkey ·Cowboy Steak with Whiskey Sauce ·Smashed New Potatoes with Miso MayonnaiseTurn your wood-fired oven into an indispensable tool in your outdoor cooking arsenal with this must-have reference.

Real barbecue taste comes from mastering the art of slow-cooking meat at a low temperature for a long time, using wood smoke to add flavour. And this is the book that shows you how to do it! For the first time, Jeff Phillips is publishing the information he has compiled on his incredibly popular website, www.smoking-meat.com. With step-by-step instructions on how to choose, set up, and modify your own charcoal, gas, or electric smoker, Jeff Phillips guides you through your smoking session with the patience unique to an experienced pitmaster. Once you've chosen your smoker and got the knack of some basic techniques, Jeff encourages you to cut loose and experiment to develop your own smoky sensations. Best of all, you can even give smoking meats a try just by using your basic backyard grill, then decide whether to invest in a smoker. Your every smoking question is answered in these detailed sections: Types of smokers Charcoal, wood, or gas? Building and keeping a fire Tools and equipment Flavouring meat The smoking-meat pantry Food safety You'll never again have to run all over town to search out the best smoked meat! In addition to handing over all his tried-and-true recipes for chicken, ribs, brisket, and burgers, Jeff gives you his favourite recipes for sauces, rubs, and brines. You'll also find recipes for smoking duck, quail, sausage, meatloaf, fish, and even frogs' legs. He rounds out his collection by including desserts, salads, and coleslaws. Smoking Meat will have you feasting on the most succulent and flavourful meat you've ever had in no time.

Grilling: It's not rocket science. But some cookbooks sure make it look that way. Not this one. In this short and sweet volume you'll learn 25 essential techniques for cooking food on the grill, summed up in 25 delicious recipes that demonstrate those techniques. It's all essentials. 'Nuff said. Armed with this concise and handy primer, anyone can become a grilling pro in no time.

Smoking meat is a cookery art form that combines scientific precision with a little smoky alchemy to produce the tenderest, most delicious cuts. Even better, it's something that anyone can do, whether you're cooking with an adapted bucket or a purpose-built Texan smokehouse. Smoking Meat is the ultimate mouth-watering guide to cooking with smoke. Whether you're whipping up some pork belly or spare ribs, Smoking Meat will have you experimenting with endless combinations of woods, heats, meats, cuts, rubs, and sauces. Impress your friends with over 50 inspired meat recipes for every taste, drawing on classic and adventurous ideas for meats from chicken to lobster and pork belly to venison. Smoking Meat is perfect for all foodies planning on hosting a barbeque or just treating your own tastebuds. Mouth-watering photos capture varying textures and colours of the meat to ensure that you're smoking meat the way you want to.

In this slim, attractive volume, outdoor cooking enthusiast Davis (America's Best BBQ) presents a varied take on the art of cooking over direct heat. Each of 25 techniques is paired with a recipe that best illustrates its merits, an approach that should raise eyebrows even among veteran grillers. While the bulk of Davis' techniques and recipes a...

The Rotisserie Grilling Cookbook shows how to set up, maintain, use, and troubleshoot a rotisserie spit. 105 recipes will expand your outdoor cooking repertoire, including dry-brined turkey and country ham.

In addition to 100 mouthwatering recipes for rock-your-world ribs and delicious sides and desserts to complement them, this more-than-a-cookbook also includes tips for competitive barbecuing, juicy stories and lore from backyards and competitions, and tons of full-color photographs that showcase America's barbecue scene at its best--

Take your backyard cookouts to a new level. “Davis and Kirk explore the world of competition barbecue and share tips and recipes straight from the champs.” —The Edwardsville Intelligencer It began with one simple question: What do championship barbecuers love to cook for themselves, when there are no rules but the simple laws of physics and basic chemistry? With more than thirty years of barbecue contest experience apiece, Ardie A. Davis, professional barbecue judge and barbecue historian extraordinaire, and KC Baron of Barbeque Paul Kirk, with a slew of awards under his belt—including seven world championships—were just the guys to ask it. America’s Best BBQ—Homestyle collects the best backyard cookout recipes from people who have gone pro. Some of the recipes are former competition winners that have earned a constant place at the family table. Others are foods that teams like to make (and share) while they tend their fires on contest day. A few are old family recipes passed down for generations. And some are even the result of ingenious experiments in the kitchen and at the grill. Most are easy. All are sure to win the hearts of friends and neighbors at your next family cookout. Also included are tips and advice on everything from meal prep to gadgets, some basics to get you started, a few tall tales from the pits, and tons of photos of the dishes and the pitmasters who make them. This is the only book you need to become “the envy of the subdivision, the pride of the campground, and the host with the most at the next tailgate party” (The Self Taught Cook).