If you’re yearning for fall-off-the-bone baby back ribs or melt-in-your-mouth brisket, you no longer have to wait an entire day for the pitmaster to deliver that perfectly smoked meat. Instead, you ...

I smoked these beef short ribs on my offset cabinet smoker over oak. The rub was a simple salt, pepper, and garlic blend, and the pit was running at 250ºF. This cook took around 5 1/2 hours. VIDEO: ...

Vertical: Vertical or “cabinet” smokers have a tall, closet-like design with a single door on the front and three to five racks for food inside. Its heat source (usually electric) sits in the base, ...

Sometimes called bullet smokers because of their shape, vertical smokers are tall and narrow—although larger sizes may resemble metal drums. The charcoal fire is stoked in the bottom of the unit and ...