Tips & Techniques

Troy Black is the Series Director for the Sam's Club National Barbecue Tour and the author of some amazing cookbooks. Troy loves to teach others how to cook low and slow barbecue and his smokers of choice are Yoder Smokers Pellet Smokers and Grills.

There are many ways to prepare and cook a turkey for the holidays from roasting whole to cutting into quarters and cooking separate. In the end, most methods work well enough. But “well enough” is not good enough for us. In our journey to find the best way to prepare a turkey we have tried it all. We always come back to the method that produces great results every time – spatchcock the turkey and smoke it.

The holidays are here and for many of us that means hosting family and friends for a turkey dinner (or lunch). There can be a lot of pressure on the host to find and prepare the perfect turkey, so we have come up with a few tips to make sure you have the perfect bird.

If you ask someone what the best barbecue sauce on the planet is, you are bound to get some very different answers.

The Best Accessories to Turn Your Weber Kettle Into a Versatile Cooking Machine!

It's October which means that football is in full swing, the leaves are changing color, and the world's biggest barbecue competition, The American Royal, is here!

We hung out at the National Bar-B-Que Derby on Saturday and chatted it up with teams from all over.

As 60 years have passed, the Weber Kettle still endures as the ultimate symbol of backyard cookouts to this day.

Over the weekend we hosted three of our famous All Things Barbecue cooking classes in our brand new teaching kitchen.