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The Pitmaster Club is the world’s largest membership-based BBQ and grilling community, designed to improve outdoor cooking while fostering a friendly, flame-free environment.
Key Benefits for Members:
You can explore the Pitmaster Club with a 30-day free trial—no credit card required. Your privacy is guaranteed, with a strict policy of no tracking or sharing of personal information. Click here to read our Privacy Promise.
Join the Pitmaster Club risk-free with a 30-day money-back guarantee. Get full access to BBQ Stars, monthly drawings, free ebooks, an Award-Winning Temperature Guide, etc.
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Members get 120 premium videos from 12 world-class pitmasters—including Hall of Famers Tuffy Stone and Meathead—once sold for $299, now included with membership. Learn more about BBQ Stars.
Each month, three Pitmaster Club members (age 21+, U.S. only) are randomly selected by an independent sweepstakes company to win amazing prizes. Learn more by clicking here.
Valued at $19.99 on Amazon, it covers 42% of your membership cost right away. Members receive a Food Temperature Safety Magnet (80+ benchmarks), valued at $19.99—covering nearly half the membership cost.
Members get six Deep Dive Guide e-books (sold for $3.99 each on Amazon, Apple, Google, and Nook) free. Each offers an in-depth look at one topic: steaks, ribs, brisket, chicken, turkey, and sous-vide-que. Learn more about the e-books.
Members receive exclusive, professionally tested recipes and early access to all new AmazingRibs.com content.
Members get exclusive excerpts and recipes from Meathead’s new book, The Meathead Method, as well as other ruminations from Meathead.
Members receive the interactive digital Barbecue News monthly, packed with recipes, BBQ legends, news, and reviews.
Members enjoy exclusive pitmaster interviews, with all audio and video archived for on-demand access.
Members enjoy an ad-free experience while exploring recipes, reviews, tips, and more on AmazingRibs.com.
Members share and explore mouthwatering food photos, tips, and inspiration from the Pitmaster community.
Moderators and members share tips, opinions on cookers, restaurants, tools, butchers, techniques, and more, all respectfully without flame wars, politics, race, religion.
Members get three monthly newsletters: “Hot From The Pit” with recipes and club highlights, “Smoke Signals” with new site articles and recipes, and “DigestThis.news”, a curated global food news round-up. Join now!
Members get exclusive deals and gifts from top barbecue brands and purveyors like Meat ‘N Bone, plus our trusted review program lets us step in with manufacturers if product issues aren’t resolved.
Pitmaster Club members gather worldwide for Meat-Ups—from our 2017 Bahamas event to backyard and BBQ joint meetups like the Texas run to Snow’s.
Members can gear up with our team’s embroidered shirt, plus patches, apparel, mugs, caps, totes, flasks, and a cook’s journal.
Impress your friends and family by showcasing this official Pitmaster Club membership certificate. Print it out and frame it as proof that you are a true master of smoke and flame.
We support the Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves, a 501(c)(3) providing high-efficiency, low-smoke stoves worldwide. These stoves use less fuel, reduce deforestation, improve health, and even power lights or charge phones—while lowering risks for women who collect firewood.
Each month we donate to World Central Kitchen, a 501(c)(3) that delivers meals on the frontlines of crises. Your membership helps support this vital work.
The Pitmaster Club is a real community, a place to learn, make friends, and have fun regardless of your level of BBQ and grilling expertise. This is your hotline for cooking tips and techniques minus the flame wars common on Facebook and other forums. Plus, you get freebies that if combined would sell for $76.87. We even block all 3rd party ads from members and you get it all for only $34.95/year
We will never sell or share your private info. Our privacy and security promise is as good as it gets.
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. This is far more secure than handing your credit or debit card to a stranger in a restaurant, gas station, or a grocery store.
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 as you will be renewed automatically. If you don’t want to renew, just click the cancel link in the email or on any page of the website. 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 and with no questions asked. This is a lot better than bombarding you with emails, snail mail, and telemarketing phone calls begging you to renew.
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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“I used to work as a chef and have learned more here than I ever did in restaurants.” – Member ‘Captain Awesome’
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“After unpleasant experiences in a group on Facebook, I was struck by what a great community we have here. Everyone treats everybody with respect and is welcoming to newbies.” – Member ‘Buck Flicks’
“I’ve learned more about BBQ in the last five months than I had in my entire life. The Pitmaster Club is a wealth of informattion.” – Member ‘Panteracfh3’
“I’m loving the Pitmaster Club. The Doc Blonder videos rock! I belong to two other private clubs, but the Pitmaster Club brings me the most fun of all!” – BBQ Hall Of Famer & Member John Markus
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