Recipes

What we cooked, and what went wrong.

Written the way we would explain it standing next to you. Times are honest, which means longer than most recipes admit.

Sliced smoked brisket on a wooden board with dark peppery bark and a visible pink smoke ring.

Beef

Brisket without the panic

The stall is not a problem to solve, it is the meat doing its job. Here is what to do instead of turning the heat up.

12–14 hours · mostly waiting

Vegetables

A whole cauliflower in the coals

Straight onto the embers, no foil, no oil. The outside goes black and that is the point. It feeds four people who were not expecting much.

45 minutes

Technique

Why your chicken keeps drying out

It is almost never the recipe. It is the lid, the vents and a thermometer you have stopped trusting.

Five minutes to read

From the yard

Workshops, catering jobs and whatever came off the fire that week.

Brisket, hour fourteen
Brisket, hour fourteen
Bark and a real smoke ring.
Low & Slow
Low & Slow
Tending the grate.
A table set for forty
A table set for forty
Carved in front of the guests.
The pit at dusk
The pit at dusk
Where it starts.
The yard, late afternoon
The yard, late afternoon
Oak, charcoal, blackened tools.
Four blends
Four blends
No more than that.

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