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Grilling and Smoking Without Fear: Fire, Smoke, Heat, and the Skills to Cook Anything Outdoors
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Series: Without Fear
Publisher Price: $29.99
Publisher: Logan Publishing
Published: Sep 10 2026
Pages: 602
Weight: 1.75
Height: 1.22 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Fire changes everything.
Grilling and smoking aren't just cooking methods. They're systems of fire, heat, smoke, airflow, moisture, time, and judgment. Once you understand how those systems work together, outdoor cooking becomes far less mysterious.
In Grilling and Smoking Without Fear, Chef Freddy MacKenzie moves beyond rigid recipes, magic temperatures, and barbecue rules that only work until something changes. Instead, he teaches you how to read the fire, understand the cooker, watch the food, and make the adjustment the cook actually needs.
You'll learn how combustion affects flavor, why clean smoke matters, how radiant, convective, and conductive heat behave differently, and how fuel, airflow, distance, weather, and cooker design change the way food cooks. You'll also learn when to move, wrap, rotate, rest, hold, or simply leave the food alone.
The book covers kettle grills, gas grills, ceramic cookers, offset smokers, pellet cookers, drum and vertical smokers, and open-fire cooking, along with the techniques behind steaks, burgers, chicken, pork, lamb, seafood, vegetables, brisket, ribs, turkey, sausage, and more.
Just as importantly, it teaches you what to do when things go wrong: when the meat is tough, the skin turns rubbery, the steak goes gray, the smoke tastes dirty, the smoker won't heat, the cooker overshoots, or the fire simply refuses to behave.
This isn't a book about memorizing somebody else's settings. It's about understanding what you're seeing well enough to make your own decisions.
Observe. Adjust. Wait. Reassess.
Learn the fire, understand the food, and become the cook who knows what to do next.
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