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Smokin Tex

Smokin Tex was founded in 1999, by barbecue restaurateur, Jim Smith in Dallas, TX. They manufacture several residential electric smokers, two large commercial models and sell a variety of accessories, BBQ tools and related products.

Big Chief aka Smokehouse Products, LLC

Founded in 1968, Smokehouse Products, LLC designs and manufactures front and top load electric smokers and gas smokers/cookers that are primarily used to make smoke-cured fish, meat jerky, sausage, poultry, cheese, and nuts. Smokehouse caters to the consumer market; they do not make commercial equipment.

They also offer smoker accessories, including wood chips and chunks, sausage […]

Old Smokey Products Company

Old Smokey Products Company has been at the same location in Houston, TX under different names and owners, manufacturing different metal products from stove pipes to lard cans to smokers since 1923. Today they make charcoal and electric smokers and related products and accessories.

Bradley Technologies Canada, Inc.

Bradley Technologies specializes in meat & food smoking products. Their claim to fame is a line of electric smokers that uses compressed sawdust discs called bisquettes to generate smoke. They also offer smoking accessories, cures, rubs, seasonings, sauce, books, videos and apparel.

Rome Industries

Rome Industries is a third generation family owned business that started in 1964. They They are a wholesale operation that carries a great variety of outdoor cooking equipment, furniture and decorations.

Max Burton Enterprises, Inc.

Max Burton Enterprises is a wholesale distributor of durable goods and home furnishings.

Camerons Products

Camerons Products is a supplier of stainless steel cookware and accessories such as their popular stovetop smoker, wood chips, beer can chicken roaster, stock pots, roasters, and paper towel holders. They have a help line and encourage you to call for assistance when selecting and using their lobster pots and stovetop smokers.

Camp Chef

Camp Chef’s tag line is “The way to cook outdoors”.  They began in 1990 to address the cooking needs of campers, outdoors-men, and nature lovers. The initial product line grew to include patio cooking. The Camp Chef catalog is impressive and comprehensive. Grills, ovens and smokers are often integrally designed with add ons such as […]

Stump’s Smokers, LLC

“Stump’s don’t build no junk” is the motto of this fabricator specializing in cabinet style, gravity feed charcoal smokers. They also make grills, reverse flow cookers, trailers and other custom gear. Their gravity feed smokers are a staple at competitions and have led many a BBQ team to victory.

Sold direct and at a very limited […]

Grillworks, Inc.

Grillworks was founded by Charles Eisendrath, a foreign correspondent for Time Magazine in the ’60s and early ’70s. Eisendrath’s assignments required frequent international relocation. France, Turkey, Chile and Argentina were major stops along his career route before settling his family in Ann Arbor to run the University of Michigan’s masters journalism program. Back in the […]

The Good-One

The Good-One Smoker/Grill was founded in 1988 by father and son entrepreneurs, Ron and Larry Goodwin. In March of 2007, Ace of Hearts BBQ Specialties purchased The Good-One product line and partnered with Goodwin Industries, the manufacturer of The Good-One to expand the brand nationally. In 2013 The Good-One was bought by Landmark Manufacturing. Landmark has […]

Onyx Ovens

The BBQ Guru are the inventors of ground breaking temperature controls for low and slow cooking in charcoal or wood-burning cookers. They even make one for regulating electric smokers. BBQ Guru controllers are designed to work with all manufacturer’s cookers. They have expanded their catalog to include smokers and various  accessories. In 2017 they entered […]

Orion Outdoors

Orion Outdoors is a consumer products company founded in 2004 and based in Atlanta, GA. Their flagship product is the Orion Cooker which is sold online and at over 2500 retail stores across America.

Big Poppa Smokers

Big Poppa Smokers is a leading name in the world of BBQ, offering high-quality rubs, sauces, grills, smokers, and accessories to backyard cooks and competition pitmasters alike. Founded by Sterling “Big Poppa” Ball, a celebrated 2x BBQ Hall of Famer, the brand is built on the belief that food should be fun, flavorful, and shared. […]

Backwoods Smoker

Backwoods makes a range of more than a dozen sizes of impressive, front-loaded charcoal or wood-fueled cabinet smokers in Louisiana. They can even custom build if one of their standards won’t work for your needs.

The small units are superb for home cooks, the medium size units are very popular on the competition scene and are […]

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