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Food Safety From The Store To The Table In The Age Of COVID-19

microscope, slide and enlarged microbes

Can you get coronavirus (COVID-19) from food? Check out these tips on how to prevent food poisoning. Learn all about viruses, bacteria, food safety, proper food handling, safe cooking temperatures, pasteurization, sterilization, and best practices for general safety when using a grill, smoker, and oven.

Texas Hot Links (aka Texas Hot Guts): Bigger, Better Smoked Sausage

Texas hot guts links

In Texas, smoked sausage is as central to barbecue as brisket. There is no standard recipe, but natural casings always hold the ground meat mixture. My favorite blend leans more on pork than beef and includes lots of black pepper. If you like smoked sausage, you’ll love this Texas Hot Guts recipe.

Ultimate Spatchcock Turkey Recipe

Spatchcocked turkey on the grill

This spatchcock (butterflied) turkey gets a boost of flavor from sage butter and citrus-herb salt before hitting the smoker or grill for the perfect dose of smoke and flame. By spatchcocking the turkey, you guarantee that the dark and white meat are cooked to perfection as the heat is dispersed evenly across the bird.

Smoked Venison Backstrap Recipe

bacon wrapped venison backstrap on grill

YouTube star Malcom Reed makes an appearance here with his recipe for Stuffed Venison Backstrap. A bacon wrap and a stuffing of crumbled bacon, sauteed onions and mushrooms, and cream cheese make this lean game meat rich and juicy.

Cherry Tomatoes: Smoke ’Em If You Got ’Em

Smoked, wizened cherry tomatoes

Smoked Tomato Raisins are the single best thing you can do with cherry tomatoes and here is the recipe for creating them. They are superb for snacking, on salads, on a pizza, in pasta, baked into breads, stuffed into chicken breasts or pork chops, or anything you would do with raisins or sun dried tomatoes.

Blasphemy Ribs Are Controversial But Taste Amazing

A pork rib in cross section

A whole rack of smoked pork ribs only has the bark and glaze on two sides. If you slice the rack into single rib portions, you get maximum flavorful bark and glaze in every bite. With this ribs recipe, you also get a pronounced smoke ring and they take less time to cook! Traditional? No. Delicious? Absolutely!

How To Make “Close Proximity Smoked Fish”

chilean sea bass

If we want to get some smoke on quick cooking fish we need to place the fish in close proximity to smoldering wood. Here is a technique that gives fish just the right kiss of smoke without overwhelming its natural beauty.

Bacon Wrapped Spare Ribs Recipe

Individual ribs, wrapped in bacon, shine on the grill

Just when you thought spare ribs couldn’t get any better! The secret to this bacon wrapped ribs recipe is wrapping each rib in bacon. Rub, smoke, and glaze, and they’re done! This simple but ridiculously awesome combo is easy to pull off and is certain to wow your guests.

Green Meanie Soup Packs A Punch of Veggies

Green vegetable soup

Here’s a fun way to get your kids to eat their vegetables and help cook them! Creamy leek and cauliflower soup is good for the whole family and easy to make. The recipe is also flexible enough to include your favorite proteins like shredded chicken or bacon. To take it a step further, try smoking the cauliflower first.

Smoked Pork Crown Roast, The Reigning King Of Your Holiday Meal

Smoked pork crown roast

Looking to wow your guests this holiday season? Cut from a 10 or 12 bone rack of pork that is trimmed (Frenched) to expose the ends of the bones, a pork crown roast is the ultimate edible centerpiece. It is also perfect for filling with a flavorful stuffing as done in this recipe for smoked pork crown roast.

Henrik Oscarsson, Moderator

Henrik Oscarsson

Henrik Oscarsson is an AmazingRibs.com Pitmaster Club moderator. He was born in the southern part of Sweden and he lives in Stockholm, the capital. He has a house in the country side where the smoker resides, so he’s there almost every weekend. He spent his senior year in high school as an exchange student in the US.

Aaron “Huskee” Lyons, Manager of The Pitmaster Club, Moderator

Aaron "Huskee" Lyons.

Huskee is the manager of our Pitmaster Club and Comments Moderator on our public site. A KCBS Certified Barbeque Judge (CBJ), he experimented for a few years with a cheap Brinkmann cabinet charcoal smoker before graduating to a Yoder Wichita offset smoker. His arsenal has since expanded to nine cookers.

Jerod Broussard, Moderator, Poultry Expert

jerod broussard

Jerod Broussard serves as a Comments Moderator for AmazingRibs.com. He is a maestro of the drum smoker and Texas barbecue in genera who has been a food inspector in Texas since 2002. Don’t be shy with your questions regarding chicken, Jerod inspects about 15,000 a day prior to them being chilled and processed.