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Slow Fire: The Beginner’s Guide to Barbecue

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Great barbecue is as simple as meat, fire, smoke, and time. This ode to authentic meaty goodness gives barbecue beginners an essential guide to the tools, techniques, and recipes needed to make smoky, mouthwatering, fall-off-the-bone meats. And seasoned smokers will learn a thing or two, too! Ray Lampe, a.k.a. Dr. BBQ, brings decades of expertise as a barbecue master, providing indispensable wisdom alongside 68 of the best recipes he has encountered in his long and wide-ranging career, from tantalizing mains such as Competition-Style Beef Brisket to lip-smacking sides such as Bacon and Blue Cheese Coleslaw. For both stove-top smokers and regular backyard grills, Slow Fire makes it easy to cook irresistible slow-cooked barbecue right at home.

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  1. The First Book You Should Buy, but You Will Need a Couple of Others If you are new to BBQ smoking in my opinion there is no one book you can buy. Everyone that writes one has a point of view. What I have found is you really need a core of three books I have found helpful and then possibly two more. Also there is a lot on the web, but there is one site I have found particularly helpful. That said if you only buy one buy this one.I have tried smoking before with bullet grills with some success, but it takes a lot of minding. I finally broke down and…

  2. If you love barbecue, BUY THIS BOOK ! I got into the hobby of smoking meats when I bought a kamado grill about a year ago. Not knowing anything about the subject, other than I love the taste of great barbecue, I thought A good book or two might enlighten me on some helpful techniques for creating some quality product. “Slow Fire” by DR. BBQ Lampe was the very first book I purchased. And although I’ve purchased several other bbq cookbooks since then, this book is always the one I keep coming back to. What am I saying…

  3. A Great Beginner’s BBQ Book! This book has been my intro manual to the BBQ world and is a great place to start. This will start you off with good basic BBQ knowledge, technique, and recipes to build your foundation and get your feet off the ground.My favorite parts are the good simple rubs with the classic BBQ meat cuts like ribs, pork butts, chickens, etc…My guests give the “Fired Up Fajita Rub” on pork butt the highest praise. And I am jacked to try the coffee brisket flat recipe! (a…

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