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25 Essentials: Techniques for Smoking

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25 Essentials is a lovely little book, with lovely balance of text and white space on each page. It is nicely bound in a lay-flat spiral design; it has slick paper, stylish illustrations, and enough information to start your career as a meat smoker, but is not the definitive text on the subject. At best, it provides a useful overview of the various techniques in practice today as far as smoking goes. It is a good basic place to start, and you won't be drowning in too-much-information.

Odd size book about 8 inch x 8 inch. Not a ton of excess, fluff info. Just direct, sort of a bullet point style, easy to read how to smoke different meats. How much time, prep work, etc is all there. As I have bbqued for 20+ yrs, I just read the technique briefly for each item I was going to smoke, Chicken, Ribs, Fish, etc. Every single time I said to myself, my efforts need this tweek or that tweek. EVERY SINGLE time, when I went back to the book THERE IT WAS!! Now I re-read the recipe/smoking technique each time fully before I get smoking!! LOL!
I also add my own notes and tweeks in nice print form on their pages to keep my success story as future review. Between their expertise and my back yard wing and a prayer style. We have been smooooooking gud-da!!!!!!!!!!
Get the book as a part of your library I suggest. Will not be disappointed. I use a Green Egg as a FYI.... Excellent product. Recommend it...
David

This is a small book but it gives you the knowledge base to begin cooking all types of meat as well as bake beans. The book has three parts:

1.Starters
2.Main Dishes
3.Sides

This book is a great buy for $10.00

While there are many more detailed books on smoking out there, 25 Essentials will get you started on the right track. The author even gives suggestions on what would be the best wood to use for a particular recipe. An easy read! The photos are helpful.