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 ...

Southern Pride, a creator of commercial smokers, introduces the MLR-150 gas-fired, wood-burning rotisserie smoker, a commercial kitchen/competition-ready rotisserie smoker in a compact model. The ...

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 ...

Mike Higgins, a chemical engineer, and H. E Finley, a mechanical engineer, joined forces and families nearly forty years ago to start J&R Manufacturing. H. E. had just married Mike’s sister, and Mike ...

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, ...