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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

BigPoppaSmokers.com is a great internet barbecue store with a superb collection of charcoal, pellet, and wood burning grills and smokers including some of the fanciest and best devices money can buy. Owner, Sterling Ball, is a fine cook and competes on the circuit. Not satisfied to sell $2,000 pellet smokers and $2,300 Jambo pits, he […]

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 […]

American Barbecue Systems

American Barbecue Systems manufactures three high quality backyard smokers as well as a large trailer-mounted unit. They are very well designed and built.  The larger models have a motorized carousel inside that rotates the shelves so there are no hot spots.

PigOut Roaster

PigOut Roaster was started by British caterer, Alan Dickson. In 2007, Dickson immigrated to Canada and introduced PigOut Roaster. These high quality, unique cookers are designed to efficiently cook and display large amounts of food for big events. Made in Canada. All Sales are direct.

McReynolds Farms

McReynolds Farms is a family owned business that started out selling roasting and suckling pigs to restaurants, resorts and meat companies. Demand grew and they expanded offerings to lambs, goats, rocky mountain oysters and rotisseries on trays.

All sales are direct.

La Caja China

La Caja China started in 1985 when Roberto Guerra was laboring over a pig roast with a makeshift cooker. His father recalled childhood memories in Cuba and how the family easily roasted whole pigs in a “Chinese Box”. They reconstructed the simple design: a wooden box on a stand with an aluminum interior and a […]

 

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