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 ...

Chuds BBQ walks you through the full build of a true Texas-style offset smoker—firebox, cook chamber, stack, and all. It’s a heavy-duty setup built for bold, authentic flavor.

Offset smokers typically burn charcoal, but wood can also be used—in either case, dampened wood chips may be added to help produce more smoke. Offset smokers require regular attention to the fire and ...

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 ...

The steel offset smoker is ubiquitous in Texas barbecue. Its torpedolike cooking chamber, with a tall smokestack on one end and a low-riding firebox on the other, is the symbol of Texas-style barbecue ...