In this video, I share how I cook with fire in a wood-burning pit. Learning to manipulate fire, to produce the right heat and the perfect smoke, took time and lots of lessons learned. The things I share in this video can help anyone, who may struggle with fire management when cooking with wood.

00:00 - Introduction
01:20 - Tools
03:10 - Humbled by fire
04:07 - Focused on the smoke
05:30 - Size of wood
06:59 - Airflow
07:36 - Taste of smoke
08:47 - Starting the fire
09:25 - Type of Wood
11:15 - Preparing the wood
13:25 - Importance of moisture
15:24 - The biscuit test
17:37 - Achieving Clean smoke
21:44 - The biscuit test - Results
25:26 - Treat smoke like Salt and Pepper

Tuffy Stone dubbed as “The Professor”.
Author of Cool Smoke - The Art of Great Barbecue.
French-trained Chef.
Judge and Co-host of America's show ‘BBQ Pitmasters’.
A 6-time BBQ World Champion
Was inducted into the 2018 BBQ Hall of Fame.

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