A direct-fire grill for hot, fast live-fire cooking.
The Collective
Gear
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Smokers & Grills
This is the intro to Smokers & Grills
A horizontal pit with a side firebox, indirect heat and true wood smoke.
Steel baskets, rails, and rings that hold charcoal where you want it in a kettle or smoker: banked to one side for two-zone, in a ring for a slow burn, or in a tall basket for a drum. They turn a pile of coals into a fire you can plan around.
A thermostat-driven blower that holds pit temperature automatically.
A fast probe for spot-checking internal temperature.
Pit Tools
Everything that is not the fire and not the thermometer: the gloves, knives, paper, bottles, and boxes that make a long cook go smoothly. None of it is glamorous and all of it gets used every time.
Gloves for moving hot things: welder-style leather gauntlets for firebox and grate work, silicone or neoprene for pulling pork and handling wrapped meat, and thin nitrile underneath for anything you want to keep clean. Nobody who cooks over fire regularly has all ten knuckles unscarred; gloves are how you keep it to a few.