Smoking Meat 101: The Ultimate Beginner's Guide

Everything was just as advertised

I will start by saying that I don't regret buying this book and that I have done roughly a third of the recipes.PROS- The best aspect of this book is the information given in the beginning pages and hiw it's laid out and presented. I found a few recipes that I will do again and there a few still to try that I'm hopeful about. The recipes and well presented and fairly easy to work through.CONS - Very basic, which isn't wholly bad, but can often run aground when a step is too vague. Leaving too many options/paths for a beginner to choose without giving enough information on said options. More personal - This could be put under the basic a vague point but it just bothers me the most and mainly because of, to me, how basic of question to leave unanswered.The dislike is that in every recipes that has brown sugar in it, it is called out as just that "brown sugar". Not light or dark, just brown sugar. Now I could see that it's something being left open to your choice but you'd think there be a note or something telling you this. Lastly, to fair about this dislike, I have only lives on the eastern side of the US but every single recipe and cookbook I ever used, that has called for brown sugar, has dictated which to use, light or dark.

I followed the recipe for smoked turkey exactly as stated. I smoked two turkeys at once and everybody said it was the best smoked turkey they’d ever eaten. I’m going to try other recipes in this book. I highly recommend this book.

I'm new to smoking and holy cow, I needed this book.Normally my ADHD drives me to quickly scan through this kind of information on the internet because most people are terrible at writing (as evidenced by my writing below), but I found myself engaged throughout the entire book.This book is broken into two valuable parts:In part one, the first 32 pages focuses on giving a VERY consumable and unbiased voiceover of the fundamentals of smoking. It has a lot of juicy information about how different smokers work and I immediately put a marker on page 20 because the author provides a great quick reference table for meats including: smoking temperature, cooking time, internal temperature, and which wood to use. This can be surprisingly hard to find on the internet.In the second part, 75 VERY consumable recipes! I f'ing hate recipes on the internet, I don't have time to read eight paragraphs of terrible writing before the recipe actually begins. Each recipe in this book contains a single paragraph for context and then its on to ingredients and the instructions.I highly recommend this book for those who are new to smoking and like to learn. /end

Have no complaints was exactly I as I ordered.

This book has been great for us as we begin our smoking journey. It has great easy recipes and all the time and Temps you will need for all different meats and vegetables.

I bought this as a gag gift for a long-time smoker for his 50th birthday. The book is so nice he never bristled at the gag and truly enjoys it.

I have cooked several recipes so far and they are all good. I really love the homemade bbq sauce. I will never buy bbq sauce again

It's a great book for learning about smokers. I've made 6 outstanding recipes so far. Can't wait to make more.

Beautiful colors and pictures, my boyfriend who doesn't like reading so much was really happy.

The book is very basic and contain practically zero pictures of the presented food in the recipes. Very frustrating when cook books do not contain images. This isn’t a good novel. Recipes are basic and boring. The only good bit is the cross reference section for woods and meats. Other than that it’s useless.

A great book for beginners.Very detailed and interesting and lots of helpful pointers.Bought as a gift and has been very handy for a starting guide.The book itself has a nice,quality feel to it making it an excellent choice for a present.

This came well packed and is ready to use its a very beautiful designed colourful grill cooking recipe book with great recipes and colourful pictures of the dishes you can enjoy making so a great buy thanks