Smoking Meat: The Essential Guide to Real Barbecue

Meet our ultimate how-to guide for smoking all kinds of meat, poultry and fish. This is truly the one-size-fits-all instruction manual for outdoor cooking fans.  From the creator of the world's highest-ranking website on smoking meat, comes this guide to mastering the 'low and slow' art of smoking meat, poultry and fish at home. Smoking Meat takes home smokers--both new and experienced--step by step through the basic and finer points of 'smokeology' -- you'll find out how to choose a smoker among the various models available, how to set up and modify a smoker (whether charcoal, gas or electric), which wood to use, how to build and maintain a fire, what tools, equipment and supplies to buy, and how to stock a smoking-meat pantry.Author, Jeff Phillips, covers every step -- brining (hot and cold), injecting, marinating, mopping, using foil and pans, crisping, how to butcher meat and poultry, making sauces and rubs, including his essential 'mop water', keeping food safe at home and while t