| Genuine pit barbecue cooks meat slowly and at a low | | | | tough for people to eat (again, beef brisket was one |
| temperature from the heat and smoke of a wood fire. | | | | of them). Long and slow cooking in those early pits |
| No matter how cheap or how tough the meat is | | | | turned those worthless cuts into something edible and |
| before it goes in the barbecue pit (such as beef | | | | delicious. |
| brisket), it comes out as juicy and tender as the finest, | | | | What you need in your backyard to create those |
| most expensive steak you have ever eaten. | | | | same great BBQ restaurant results is something similar |
| Many people believe the only way to enjoy real pit | | | | to those first German barbecue pits. Your first option, if |
| barbecue is to go to a barbecue restaurant. They | | | | you have the skills, is to build a brick BBQ pit. A pit |
| have all the equipment, and they really know what | | | | such as this should be built big enough for you to |
| they are doing. That may be true, but today there are | | | | create a fire on one side and cook the meat on the |
| ways to cook real pit BBQ, just as tender and flavorful | | | | other. Or you can build a fire pit next to the food pit, |
| as any BBQ restaurant. | | | | which has an opening to let the smoke and some heat |
| So how does someone go about creating this flavor | | | | into the cooking pit. This allows you to cook slow and |
| at home? Many people try to cook pit BBQ style with | | | | long, as the German butchers did. |
| a kettle grill, using various techniques. Some use a | | | | If building a brick barbecue pit in your backyard is not |
| water smoker, which gives great results with some | | | | possible, there are many options available to purchase |
| meats, but not so great with others. Still others use a | | | | in stores. What you are looking for is a barbecue pit |
| 55-gallon drum converted into a barbecue pit, with | | | | that has a main box or barrel with a lid and a grate |
| limited success. | | | | where the meat is placed on. Off to one side, and |
| To get real smoked pit barbecue taste and | | | | situated a little lower, is a smaller box, called the fire |
| tenderness, all you have to do is buy or build a | | | | box, attached to the larger food box. This is where the |
| barbecue pit modeled after the ones used in the best | | | | fire is started and burns from. Smoke and low heat |
| barbecue restaurants. You will soon be cooking beef | | | | from the fire pass through the opening of the fire box |
| brisket and everything else just as good as good as | | | | into the cooker box. |
| the finest bbq joints in the country. | | | | This low heat and smoke will create virtually the same |
| Around the early 1900's, German butchers in Texas | | | | results as the finest BBQ restaurants anywhere. |
| developed a brick pit with a metal lid. They did this | | | | Taken care of, a quality barbecue pit will last through |
| because there were many cuts of beef that were | | | | many years of great pit barbecue flavor. |
| having to be thrown away because they were too | | | | |