Tips and Recipes

Are you looking for a great way to cook some juicy boneless, skinless chicken breasts on your barbecue cooker? After stumbling around with different methods, we found a great way to make them turn out juicy.

Here’s my gift to you this holiday season:

How to Grill Chicken Breasts

I hope you enjoy the recipe.  🙂

Lavern Gingerich

Happy Thanksgiving from Yoder’s Smoky Mountain Barbecue!

I want to let you know that we won’t be taking calls or answering e-mails for a couple days over the holiday. But plan to open back up on Monday.It doesn’t look like we’ll be able to smoke up a turkey for Thanksgiving Day—an oven-cooked one will have to do. But if you’ve got that on your agenda, here is an article I wrote that will walk you through the steps of smoking a turkey in a BBQ smoker:

How to Smoke a Turkey in a BBQ Pit

Wishing you a great holiday as you count your blessings with family and friends.

Thank you,

Lavern Gingerich

PS. On your day off, why not take some time to browse our catalog of award-winning BBQ smokers from Meadow Creek.

Sliced Smoked Brisket

One of our goals here at Yoder’s Smoky Mountain Barbecue is to help barbecue enthusiasts and caterers enjoy easy and profitable barbecues for years to come.

We want to help you experience the delicious adventure of slow cooking and grilling, whether it’s for your family, friends, or customers.

As promised, I just wrote a new article on how to smoke brisket in an offset barbecue smoker. It will help you smoke a tender and delicious brisket even if you’ve never smoked a brisket before. I have also included an expert brisket rub recipe you can use to make your own homemade rub!

If you have questions about smoking a brisket, make sure you read my article. It’s not as hard to smoke beef brisket as you might think!

Brisket Recipe: How to Smoke a Beef Brisket

If this is helpful, please leave a comment on this blog post and let me know.  🙂

Or become a fan of my Facebook page and upload a photo of your latest BBQ. Once you are a fan of my page, you will need to type a comment in the “What’s on your mind” box, and then you will see a “Photos” link to upload a photo.

I hope you enjoy your brisket smoke and don’t forget to tell me how it went.

Lavern

Are you a beginner BBQ smoker enthusiast looking for some guidelines to get started with? Here is a helpful chart that lists approximate times and temperatures for a variety of common meats.

BBQ Smoking Times and Temps Chart

Please leave a comment if you find this useful. Also feel free to suggest any meats we should add to the chart.

Are you looking for an easy step-by-step guide for smoking a whole turkey?  I just published an article on how to smoke a turkey in a BBQ smoker with charcoal.

You’ll find smoking a turkey is not that difficult. Once you discover how easy it is and you take your first bite, I hope you’ll want to make it a tradition every holiday season!

The article walks you through all the steps of smoking a turkey. In a few minutes you can be equipped with the knowledge you need to go buy your turkey and fire up the smoker.

How to Smoke a Turkey

Here’s a charcoal smoker tip that shows you how to avoid long temperature slumps in a charcoal barbeque smoker and get your meat smoked in record time.

Most times when you smoke, you will need to add more charcoal partly through the smoke. If you let too much of your charcoal burn up before adding more fuel, the temperature will drop dramatically and it will take longer than necessary for the new charcoal to make heat. This can be disappointing, especially if you have a deadline to meet and you don’t have time to lose.

This is especially bad if it’s cold outside or it’s raining and you open the smoking chamber door to check your meat. Under these conditions, we have found it can easily take up to 30 minutes to totally regain optimum smoking temperature.

Smoker Firebox Ready for More Charcoal

On the other hand, remember you don’t want a lot of extra charcoal in the firebox after you’re done. Be careful not to add too much toward the end of your smoke.

So keep some extra charcoal nearby and watch that firebox!