Barbecuing is a Fourth of July tradition—and one of our favorite cooking methods is using a smoker. The thick layer of smoke makes for a spicy crisp outside and tender meat inside. A good smoker can ...

How do I build an inexpensive cold smoker? You can build a cold smoker using an oil drum for the main smoking chamber. In Oil Drum Handicraft, you can find instructions for how to build a smoker. This ...

Want some deep smokey BBQ flavor without shelling out hundreds for a ceramic smoker? For $50 worth of parts and a trip to the hardware store, you can build your own. One of the keys to good BBQ is low ...

If you love the taste of smoked meats but live in an apartment, don't have the money or space for an expensive backyard smoker, or just don't want to spend a lot of time smoking your meat or fish, ...

Spring is in the air, and with that comes savory meals cooked over the course of dozens of hours. While preparing for your yearly allotment of pork and beef, check out [Brett Beauregard]’s custom ...

This was a project we'd had on the back burner, so to speak, for months. Then we went on a smoking and curing course with Norfolk's Marsh Pig Salami (more on that next week) and came home with lots of ...

[Matt] wanted to have more control over his meat smoker so he built this advanced PID smoker controller. It uses the solid state relay seen in the bottom-right of this image to switch the smoker’s ...