Links to BBQ Websites
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The Texas BBQ Trail - a road map to bbq dining around the Hill Country

Cooper's BBQ - in Llano, TX - home of the "Big Chop" and George W. Bush's favorite brisket

Kreuz Market - in Lockhart, TX - the sauce is to die for, be sure and ask for it!

Black's BBQ - in Lockhart, TX - their sausage is THE best

Luling City Market - Luling, TX - maybe their sausage is the best

The Salt Lick - Driftwood, TX

Texas Hill Country Barbecue - Boerne, TX

Hard Eight BBQ - Stephenville, TX (very nice college age honeys on staff plus free beer) and Brady, TX

Mikeska's Bar-B-Q - Taylor, TX - brother Rudy 

Mikeska's Bar-B-Q - El Campo, TX 

Mikeska's Bar-B-Q - Temple, TX - brother Clem

Mikeska's Bar-B-Q - Boerne, TX - brother Jerry

Meyer's Elgin Smokehouse - Elgin, TX - the sausage capital of Texas

Sonny Bryan's Smokehouse - the original on Inwood is about as good as it gets in Dallas

Peggy Sue BBQ - another of Dallas' best

Greenberg Turkeys - absolutely the BEST smoked turkey on Earth

Czech Stop - not bbq, but delicious, fresh baked Kolaches

BBQ: A Texas Love Story - a documentary on Texas bbq narrated by former governor <shudder> Ann Richards

International Barbeque Cookers Association - cook-offs all across Texas

Central Texas Barbeque Association - more Texas cook-off info

Kansas City BBQ Society - governing body for one of America's biggest bbq cook-offs

Barbeque News Forum - general bbq info and discussion

HomeBBQ Message Boards - general bbq info and discussion

BBQ FAQ Table of Contents - tons of bbq info

The BBQ Forum Image Gallery - pics of people's pits and pit building projects

"Cyclops" Home built BBQ smoker - very cool step-by-step journal of one man's quest to build a massive portable smoker

Forestry Products Classified Ads - logsplitter.com sponsors this free site for buyers and sellers of firewood

Barbecuewood.com - the name kind of says it all

BBQ pits by Klose - made right here in Texas, some of the best pits around

Lang Cookers - reverse flow smokers that are highly recommended

Gator Pits - made in Texas

Pitts & Spitts - TX made and used by for George HW Bush and John Madden

Tejas Smokers - once again, made here in Texas

Lyfe Tyme BBQ pits - made in Texas

BBQ pits by JJ - yet another Texas made pit

Bates Pitts - nice looking pits, made in Texas

Old Country BBQ pits - made in Texas

Austin National Smokers - made in Indiana and capitalizing on Texas' reputation for bbq by using the name of our state capital

KCK Cookers - interesting looking smokers

Pro Pits Mobile Smokers - made in Texas

J.R. Enterprises - nice looking pits

Texas Pit Crafters - made in Texas

Acme Custom BBQ Pits - Texas made, good enough for Wile E. Coyote

Big Green Egg - never seen one myself, but I've heard some raves

American Pride Smokers - custom cookers

Southwest Smokers - high-end cookers

Southern Cookers - unusual design

Southern Yankee BAR-B-Q - in Texas we typically use "damn" rather than "Southern" as a qualifier before the word Yankee...

New Braunfels/Oklahoma Joe's - serviceable starter pits

Cookers and Grills - custom bbq trailers

Horizon Smokers - backyard and portable pits

TMP BBQ Pits - made in Texas

Party Grills - backyard and trailer cookers

Weld Talk - Hobart Welders sponsors this board, invaluable to a rookie welder who wants to build a pit.

Texas Dove Kings - coming soon

eBay - what can't you find there?

One of these days I'm going to build a quasi-portable open-fire whole hog rotisserie roaster out of a tank head.  Ideally wind powered with some sort of gear reduction.  It's always windy in Texas...except when it's 105º and there's yard work to be done.

Authentic Texas BBQ?

It's funny, when people open a bbq restaurant and want to seem authentic they always try to hitch their wagon to Texas.  Who would stop at a joint like a "New Hampshire Smokehouse" or a place selling "Real Nebraska BBQ"?

There's no doubt great bbq being cooked in every corner of the US.  Still, you see an awful lot of restaurants which claim to be "Texas Barbeque".  Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, so we real Texans can consider ourselves complimented by these wannabe Texans.

People who wish they were in Texas

Those folks may serve fine bbq.  Yet they rely on the fabled reputation of Texas bbq to help attract customers.  If you really enjoy bbq you owe it to yourself to take a week or two and take a bbq vacation across the Lone Star State.  Start with the Texas BBQ Trail link.

Newspaper to start the fire and wood for fuel are the only things that burn in the King's firebox.

Know your Meat

Beef cut chart (.pdf requires Adobe Acrobat Reader)

Beef cut chart

Pork cut chart (.pdf requires Adobe Acrobat Reader)

Pork cut chart

Lamb cut chart

Lamb cut chart

I've always wanted to try smoking a turkey in a cloth mesh bag.  Allied Kenco sells them, but smoking a turkey beer can chicken-style with a 1 quart pineapple juice can is so damn good I just haven't broken down and ordered any bags yet.  I'd love to find some chicken sized bags and give that a whirl.  If you know where I can find them e-mail the King.

Note to self, next time use more gasoline...