"I am loving the Pitmaster Club. The Doc Blonder videos rock! Collecting superb recipes. I belong to two other private clubs, but The Pitmaster Club brings me the most fun of all!"John Markus, Producer, BBQ Pitmasters TV Show
Since we were founded in 2005, AmazingRibs.com has gone from my hobby to the largest and most popular outdoor cooking website in the world with thousands of pages. Thank you! For years we had problems making ends meet because we are a small company without a corporate parent. Meanwhile, we wanted to create a real community that could take you to the next level. The Pitmaster Club was the solution. Members are newbies, weekenders, competitors, even pros. This is a very special community with none of the flame wars common on other public message boards. This is your place to connect with fellow backyarders, and your 24 hour hotline to expertise. Every single day someone tells us what a great value it is and how much it has done for them.
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With the 30 day free trial you get full privileges except you are not eligible for prizes and we won't ship your free $9.95 Award Winning Temperature Guide until you pay. You can post questions, join conversations, and we block ads for you.
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EXCLUSIVE! No more ads! That means a faster site!
When members are logged in they don't see paid ads from third parties on any part of the website. Third party ads come from remote servers and they slow the page load times. Without them the site runs faster! So no more bogus diet ads and no more mortgage come-ons! And members don't see ads for the Pitmaster Club either.
EXCLUSIVE! Free sneak preview of Meathead's new book
Members get exclusive excerpts and recipes from Meathead's forthcoming book, "The Meathead Method, Barbecue Science Meets Art".
EXCLUSIVE! Free digital books!
Our team occasionally published eBooks under our publishing banner, Deep Dive Guides, and, although they are sold on Amazon for $3.99, flipbook versions are free to members. Our latest is Sous Vide Que Made Easy, a Deep Dive into the art of combining sous vide with barbecue and grilling.
EXCLUSIVE! Free Barbecue News magazine every month
Members get the digital version of Barbecue News monthly. The print version sells for $25/year and digital version is $15/year. Founded in 1989, Barbecue News is the only magazine devoted to barbecue and it features columns from BBQ Hall of Famers Ardie Davis and Paul Kirk, recipes, news from BBQ associations, a calendar of events, a restaurant guide, book reviews, and ruminations by other experts including the team at AmazingRibs.com (beginning in December). The digital version is especially cool because it is interactive. Many articles and ads are clickable linking you to more info.
EXCLUSIVE! More recipes, recipes, recipes!
Members post their favorite recipes in the Pitmaster Club forum and there are some pretty creative, tasty recipes. We also select some of the best and publish them on the main website, the free part of the site, so their friends and family and co-workers can see that they are now famous published recipe writers! If you dream of being a food writer, here's how to get started!
EXCLUSIVE! Inspiration
Our section "Show Us What You Are Cooking" is foodporn at its best. We go there for inspiration and ideas, tips on technique, and to marvel at the photographic skills of fellow members.
EXCLUSIVE! Comprehensive Giant Food Temperature Guide Magnet
For a limited time, we are sending new paid Pitmaster Club members our new 8.5" x 11" Comprehensive Food Temperature Guide Magnet with more than 50 temperature benchmarks for meats, sugar, oil, and more. It sells for $9.95 on Amazon.com. That's 42% of the price of a membership as soon as you join!
EXCLUSIVE! Great Giveaways
Pitmaster Club members in the US will be entered into all 12 monthly drawings/year for valuable prizes, all of them Gold or Platinum Medal winners, including free smokers, grills, and more, average value of more than $1,000! Your odds of winning over the course of a year are only about 1 in 1,500! Click here for the complete list of prizes and click here to see previous winners.
EXCLUSIVE! Interviews with top pitmasters
Pitmaster Club members get exclusive interviews with famous pitmasters like Tuffy Stone, Rick Browne, Chris Lilly, Harry Soo, Prof. Greg Blonder, Aaron Franklin, Myron Mixon, Candy Sue Weaver, and more. Check the seven minute excerpt from his discussion with Dr. Blonder on salt.
EXCLUSIVE! Greg Rempe's PitCast
The PitCast is a podcast by Greg Rempe of the BBQ Central Show exclusively for members. It gives us Wagyu quality conversation featuring news and interviews from the BBQ and grilling world including competition results from across the various sanctioning bodies, a look to the week ahead with upcoming events, cooking classes, judging classes and other items of interest.
EXCLUSIVE! Cartoons
Enjoy the humor of cartoonist Jerry King weekly as he pokes fun at our wacky lifestyle.
EXCLUSIVE: Great discussions and debates
Members share opinions on cookers, restaurants, tools, butchers, techniques, and more, all respectfully without flame wars, no politics, race, religion. They moderate themselves with respect. We have to kick out an average of one person per year.
EXCLUSIVE! Monthly "Hot From The Pit" newsletter
Every month we send members an exclusive email newsletter, "Hot From The Pit", with recipes from members and highlights of discussions from The Pitmaster Club. The food porn is amazing. Members also get "Smoke Signals", our monthly email newsletter with news of new articles and recipes on the free portion of the website.
Meat-Ups!
In February 2017, we held our First International Meat-Up in the Bahamas with more than 50 members of the Pitmaster Club. Check out the video:
Join us for our Meat-Up in Memphis in the summer of 2020. Click here to see the itinerary.
In addition, several of our members organize local Meat-Ups in BBQ joints and their own backyards around the world all year long.
EXCLUSIVE! Discounts on products we love
Manufacturers recognize our members as important opinion leaders in the barbecue and grilling world and often make products available to them at special prices. Some examples: $20 off on ThermoWorks' Thermapen MK4. $12.50 off on LooftLighters. Half off on membership in ChefSteps' Studio Pass ($34.50 savings). $335 off on PK360 Grill Bundle. Up to 25% off on the superb meats from Porter Road. And more!
EXCLUSIVE! Members can buy this cool embroidered Pitmaster Club shirt
This beautifully embroidered shirt is the same one I wear in public and on TV. It's wash and wear and doesn't need ironing, but it is a soft cottonlike feel. Choice of four colors and both men's and women's.
Members can also order men's and women's T-Shirts, Sweatshirts, Aprons, Mugs, Caps, Tote Bags, Flasks, and more, all imprinted with the Pitmaster Club logo, in a variety of colors. Prices are very reasonable. There's even a spiral bound journal where you can make notes on your cooks.
EXCLUSIVE! Certificate
Frame and hand a certificate on your wall that proclaims you to be a Pitmaster!
Support for Operation BBQ Relief
We donate a percentage of all membership fees to Operation Barbecue Relief, a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit disaster relief program that sends pitmasters into US disaster areas to feed the first responders and homeless. If there is a tornado or flood, they are there within hours. By joining you help support this amazing service. Click here to learn more about the remarkable work OBR does.
Support for Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves
We also donate to the Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves. This remarkable a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization develops and distributes high efficiency cookstoves to the needy around the world. Many are wood burning but they require much less wood than the old fashioned stoves that also filled their huts and eyes and lungs with soot. These new designs are practically smokeless. Some burn biomass such as rice husks or even dried dung and some use solar energy. Some are even manufactured locally. Some of these clever designs have come from the recreational camping world, and many have migrated the other way, into the camping world. Below is a well insulated high efficiency unit that can burn wood, biomass such as crop byproducts like corncobs, it can run on solar, and can even store enough energy to power a light or charge a cell phone. Reducing the amount of wood means less deforestation in dry areas and women spend less time collecting wood and are at less risk. Click here to read more about this remarkable organization.
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We will never sell or share your private info. Our privacy and security promise is as good as it gets.
Secure transaction
When you pay, your payment is secure. We never see or store credit card info. The subscription page is a portal directly to Stripe.com, a huge respected card processor that is certified to PCI Service Provider Level 1, the most stringent level of certification available. It is also GeoTrust Secured. They have never been hacked. They are far more secure than handing your credit or debit card to a stranger in a restaurant, gas station, or a grocery store.
Easy autorenewal
For your convenience, when the year is up, you don't have to do a thing to renew. Three weeks before your membership expires we'll send you an email asking if you want to renew. If you do, don't do a thing, you will be renewed automatically. No renewal notices and no telemarketing calls. If you don't want to renew, just click the cancel link in the email or on any page of The Pitmaster Club. But our money back guarantee extends to renewals too: If you renew and change your mind within 30 days, we will refund your money promptly, no questions asked. And remember, we never see or store credit card info! We think this is a lot better than bombarding members with emails and snailmails begging them to renew.
Click to Take A 30 Day Free Trial
With the 30 day free trial you get full privileges except you are not eligible for prizes and we won't ship your free $9.95 Award Winning Temperature Guide until you pay. You can post questions, join conversations, and we block ads for you.
Click To Join For Only $23.95/Year
Moneyback Guarantee!
We can up your game! The Pitmaster Club is a real barbecue community, a place to learn, make friends, and have fun.
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