Great News

I just want to let everyone know that Meadow Creek has just finished developing a brand new cabinet smoker.

As you probably know, box smokers are smashing contests right now. They are also popular with backyarders because they’re compact, easy to use, and efficient to run.

Combined with Meadow Creek’s 30+ year tradition of outstanding quality and service, this new box smoker is setting the woods on fire!

Melvin chose two of his friends to test this smoker last summer. The agreement was that they could use the smoker for free, if they bring it back at the end of the season and give their feedback before Meadow Creek launches it to the public.

One of these guys is a backyarder. At the end of the season, he said, “You can’t have this thing back. It works so well, I’m keeping it!” Melvin gave in and sold it to him.

Doesn’t that say a lot about Meadow Creek’s design process and their quality of work? The guy couldn’t help but fall in love with the smoker already at the testing stage.

I just talked with Melvin at Meadow Creek, and he told me they’ve already sold 25 of these smokers. He is surprised at how fast this thing is taking off. They even have three custom commercial trailers in design stage right now with these smokers on the drawing.

This smoker will appeal to backyarders, competitors, and even commercial chefs.

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Since we launched it six months ago, StoryQue magazine has grown into a great success and we’re just getting started! 🙂 The sky is the limit and we look forward to sharing this adventure with our readers.

Dedicated StoryQue Website

I just launched a dedicated website for StoryQue, my monthly barbecue magazine, at www.storyque.com. The website will be a portal for announcements and information about new issues and our team of contributors.

StoryQue in PDF Format

I’m also excited to announce that StoryQue is now available in PDF format. The iPad app is a lot nicer than reading a PDF, but so many of my audience prefer to read stuff on their desktop computer or don’t have an iPad, that I decided to make it more readily available.

Besides, it’s a ton of work to publish a magazine, so why not make it available to everyone who’s begging for it, right?

As soon as you subscribe, my system will email you a link to the latest issue. As long as you remain a paying subscriber, you’ll get a download link for each new issue when it’s released. All you need to read the file is a computer and the free Adobe Reader.

Click here to subscribe to the PDF version.

Latest Issue

The January issue has been out for about 10 days now. It’s got a lot of good stuff to help you start the new year off right. Kell and Ryan talk about taking notes and getting consistent results. There’s also a story by Jeff Allen on the annual NBBQA conference. In all, this issue contains a variety of recipes, tips, and inspirations to help you step up your cooking.

Special Issues

Inside the StoryQue iPad app, you’ll find Ask Jeff, a free download we just added this month. It contains the questions and answers from Jeff Phillip’s Q&A column in the 2012 StoryQue issues. Plus Jeff’s fascinating story of how his love for the outdoors and cooking led him to pursue the art of smoking meat and teaching others how to do the same.

In the coming weeks, we plan to release a couple more really good downloads. Our goal is to provide lots of free content inside the StoryQue app for even those who for whatever reason don’t feel like subscribing or paying for back issues.

If you have an iPad, install the free StoryQue app in your newsstand and get swipin’. 🙂

Have fun,

Lavern Gingerich

The biggest challenge with an offset smoker is keeping the paint on and around the firebox looking good. The heat in the firebox is intense and it takes regular maintenance to keep the firebox from rusting. And if your firebox metal is thin, the problem will be even worse than if you have a Meadow Creek Smoker or other heavy duty smoker.

Meadow Creek’s insulation upgrade for their smoker fireboxes has been a great success. The insulation keeps more heat inside the smoker, which keeps the paint nicer on the outside and drastically reduces the amount of charcoal and wood it takes to cook.

Turns out, there is something even more—something beyond this fancy-pants double-wall insulated firebox—you can add to a Meadow Creek smoker trailer to make it even more durable and maintenance free. As is often the case, we can blame this idea (a good kind of blame) on Tom from Smoke’n Dudes.

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