Do I need a smoker? Which cuts of meat are best for smoking? Which is better, a gas grill or a charcoal grill? What’s the difference between wood chunks, chips, and pellets? Should I grill food with my cooker’s lid open, or closed? How can I get started competing in barbecue contests? Why is my barbecue chicken always dry?
You got questions about barbecue?
Myron Mixon—winningest man in barbecue and star of “BBQ Pitmasters”—has answers.
From Mixon’s live cooking demos to his popular cook schools to his more than 20 years spent competing on the professional barbecue circuit, he has heard countless questions from ‘cue enthusiasts, and in this book he tackles them all. Here is a barbecue guide for anyone who loves to cook and eat ‘cue—complete with recipes designed for both novices and more experienced cooks, plus countless tips and techniques and all the advice you’ll ever need to be the king or queen of your backyard.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
As a four-time world barbecue champion, Myron Mixon is the winningest man in barbecue. The chief cook of the Jack’s Old South Competition Bar-B-Que Team, the Mayor of Unadilla, GA, and Chef/Partner in Myron Mixon’s Pitmaster BBQ in Old Town, Alexander, VA; Miami, FL; and Hoboken, NJ.
Myron competed in his first competition in Augusta, Georgia, in 1996, where he took first place in whole hog, first place in pork ribs, and third in pork shoulder. Since then, he’s won more barbecue competitions than anyone else in the world.
He’s won over 200 grand championships resulting in over 1,800 total trophies, 30 state championships, 8 Team of the Year awards, and 11 national championships. Myron’s team has taken three first place whole hogs at the Jack Daniels World Championship Invitational Barbeque Competition; has been the Grand Champion at the World Championship in Memphis three times: 2001, 2004 and 2007; and, has also taken first place in the Whole Hog category at the World Championship in: 2001, 2003, 2004 and 2007. And, his team is the only team to win Grand Championships in Memphis in May, Kansas City BBQ Society, and Florida BBQ Association in the same year. In 2013, he was inducted into the Barbecue Hall Fame in Kansas City. In 2018, he was awarded the Carolyn and Gary Well “Pioneer of Barbeque” Award by the Jack Daniel’s World Championship Invitational Barbecue.
On TV, Myron is the Executive Producer and host of “BBQ Rules,” host of the “Smoked,” and star of two other hit shows “BBQ Pitmasters” and “BBQ Pitwars” on Discovery’s Destination America and Cooking Channel. For more on Myron on TV see here.
He is the author of the hugely successful The New York Times bestselling cookbook Smokin’ with Myron Mixon: Recipes Made Simple, from the Winningest Man in Barbecue (Random House, May 2011), Everyday Barbeque (Random House, May 2013), Myron Mixon’s BBQ Rules (Abrams, 2016), BBQ&A with Myron Mixon (Abrams, 2019), and Keto BBQ (Abrams, 2021)
