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Barbecue Log Book: Track your times, temps and cooks! Become a Pitmaster! (Holy Smokes Barbecue Team)

Cooking with fire and smoke is at the core of every human being.
The Holy Smokes Team has designed and developed a Barbecue Log Book. This log book helps you track meat preparations, seasonings and wood used, as well as temperature charts, note sections, time tracking and post-cook reviews.
It’s light and easy to pack. With a Gloss cover finish, it allows for easy clean up BBQ spills!

With 200+ pages and 50+ cooking logs, this allows for a catalog of cooks. Unlike other log books, this comes with a breakdown of wood choices, and safe cooking temperature guides. 

Holy Smokes Team cooks competitively on the KCBS circuit. With years of cooking and smoking they have developed a tried and true book to help you journal and track your cooks. Fine tune your skills and become a true Pitmaster

  • Cooking date
  • Meat preparations (types, price, weight, brand)
  • Special ingredients (seasoning, brine, glaze and sauces)
  • Cooking procedures
  • Type of cooker 
  • Weather conditions
  • Target temp and rotation times
  • Fuel used (wood, propane, pellets)
  • Time & Temp chart (chart vent opening, rotation food and fuel changes)
  • Cook notes and diagrams space
  • Full post cook evaluation (bark, tenderness, moisture)
  • Post cook notes 
  • Changes and comments for next cook
No matter if you are just getting started or cook professionally, this Barbecue Log Book is for you. Backyard cooks and KCBS competitors have all raved about how this book helps them become a pitmaster.

Holy Smoke: The Big Book of North Carolina Barbecue

North Carolina is home to the longest continuous barbecue tradition on the North American mainland. Now available for the first time in paperback, Holy Smoke is a passionate exploration of the lore, recipes, traditions, and people who have helped shape North Carolina’s signature slow-food dish. A new preface by the authors examines the latest news, good and bad, from the world of Tar Heel barbecue, and their updated guide to relevant writing, films, and websites is an essential. They trace the origins of North Carolina ‘cue and the emergence of the heated rivalry between Eastern and Piedmont styles. They provide detailed instructions for cooking barbecue at home, along with recipes for the traditional array of side dishes that should accompany it. The final section of the book presents some of the people who cook barbecue for a living, recording firsthand what experts say about the past and future of North Carolina barbecue.  Filled with historic and contemporary photographs showing centuries of North Carolina’s “barbeculture,” as the authors call it, Holy Smoke is one of a kind, offering a comprehensive exploration of the Tar Heel barbecue tradition.

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