The smoker is really made up of the steel lid and thick, steel walls inside the brick. Schmidt said they scrape the pits down weekly to keep them clean. I asked him if he puts any stock in the ...

Build a durable DIY brick oven, stove, grill, and smoker to start cooking and baking pizza in your backyard. This DIY, wood-fired, outdoor masonry stove can be used four ways: for baking, grilling ...

In La Grange, the indirect-heat brick smoker, built in 1953, at the now-closed Prause’s Meat Market was certainly showing its age when I last saw it a few years back. By then, the Fort Worth ...

I constructed my smoker out of 10-ga. sheet steel on a frame of 1-in. thinwall square tubing. One caution about barrels--unless you can acquire a genuine food-grade barrel, make your own.