The single biggest thing you will have issues with when using your smoker with natural draft is wind and cross drafts! Check out this episode and I'll tell you what the air did to me!

This episode of The BBQ CULTure Podcast is dedicated to all the "First Ones". It feels like I have always been the first one of my network to break out and do the next thing. We as humans tend to carry on in the footsteps of our family and continue in tradition. At some point someone is driven to make change. I am one of those people and I bet you are too. I invite you to be the first in your family or circle to be the patriarch of the next generation and begin a new way, learn the ways of The BBQ CULTure and pass them down to your descendants. Believe me... you will not regret it!

     What are the most basic key points to cooking with wood? In this episode we take a moment to cover the basics of cooking wood. We discuss a little about white smoke, thin blue smoke, and establishing a rhythm for adding wood and controlling temp in your smoker. 

If you would like more info about smoker operation and control subscribe to this podcast and listen along as we explain the how to's of becoming a pitmaster!

In this episode I share the story of my first ever fire for cookin. I was definitely a rookie! Listen as I tell you just how little I new when I began on my journey as a pitmaster!

One might look at me and think "I bet he's always known how to build smokers and how to cook like that!"

Well you would be wrong! I had to get my start in the BBQ Life too. I spent tons of time, money, and energy to become a PitMaster. Here's a short story of where it all began for me!

I'm Frank Cox, let me tell you a story....