Utrecht · since 2019

Low heat. Long afternoon.

We teach people to cook over fire, we cater the parties nobody wants to cook for, and we blend the rubs we use ourselves. Three things, done properly.

A charcoal pit at dusk in a brick yard, lid open, embers glowing and smoke rising.

Three ways we can help

Workshops

A Saturday at the pit. You light it, you tend it, you eat what you made. Six people per session, so nobody stands at the back watching.

From €95 · Utrecht

Catering

Company parties, weddings, a fiftieth birthday in a barn. We arrive the night before, because brisket does not care about your schedule.

20–120 guests · nationwide

Rubs

Four blends, mixed in batches of twelve kilos. The same tins we reach for at the pit. No anti-caking agents, no filler salt.

€9,50 a tin · post next day

Next up

Low & Slow, Saturday 11 October

Brisket and pork shoulder, from cold grate to the carving board. Nine in the morning until the meat says it is ready, which is usually around six. Lunch, a beer and a tin to take home are included.

What a Saturday looks like

Tap any of them to see it properly.

Ribs, coming off
Ribs, coming off
Glaze set, tongs ready.
A fresh log on the coals
A fresh log on the coals
Oak, just catching.
A catering job, last summer
A catering job, last summer
Ninety guests, two of us.
Rubbing a shoulder
Rubbing a shoulder
Sunday Shoulder, by hand.
Flatbread on the grate
Flatbread on the grate
Straight on, no pan.

How a catering job goes

You tell us the day

How many people, where, and roughly what kind of evening it is. Two lines is enough to start.

We send a menu

Within two working days, with a price that already includes the things people forget: staff, gas, plates, and the bin bags afterwards.

We arrive early

Often the night before. Smoke takes the hours it takes; that is the whole point and it cannot be hurried.

You do nothing

Which is the part clients mention afterwards. We carve, we serve, we clean, we leave.

340people taught since 2019
61parties catered last year
14 hlongest brisket so far
4rubs, no more than that

What people said afterwards

What traders say

★★★★★

“They arrived at seven in the evening, the day before. I thought that was overkill until I tasted it. Nobody asked me a single question all night.”

Maartje
company party, 40 guests
★★★★★

“I have owned a smoker for three years and got more out of one Saturday than out of all of that. Mostly because I was the one making the calls.”

Joost
Low & Slow workshop
★★★★★

“They arrived at seven in the evening, the day before. I thought that was overkill until I tasted it. Nobody asked me a single question all night.”

Maartje
company party, 40 guests
★★★★★

“I have owned a smoker for three years and got more out of one Saturday than out of all of that. Mostly because I was the one making the calls.”

Joost
Low & Slow workshop
★★★★★

“Two of them, ninety of us, and food that came out hot at the same time. I still do not understand how.”

Frank
wedding, 90 guests
★★★★★

“Six people means you actually cook. I had expected to stand and watch someone else do it.”

Lianne
First Fire workshop
★★★★★

“Two of them, ninety of us, and food that came out hot at the same time. I still do not understand how.”

Frank
wedding, 90 guests
★★★★★

“Six people means you actually cook. I had expected to stand and watch someone else do it.”

Lianne
First Fire workshop

One recipe a month

What we cooked, what went wrong, and what to do about it. No offers, no reminders that we exist. Roughly the first Thursday.

Done. The next one goes out on the first Thursday.

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