Your BBQ and grilling exploits don't require a premium barbecue—in fact with a little scavenging you can be sporting a spacious grill for very little cash outlay. Follow this simple tutorial to turn a ...

While using a grill is the most popular method of cooking outside, connoisseurs of slow-cooked meat will tell you that a smoker is the way to go. You don't have to buy another outdoor appliance to ...

POP Projects is a collection of new and classic projects from more than a century of Popular Mechanics. Master skills, get tool recommendations, and, most importantly, build something of your very own ...

[Joel] wanted to use his newly acquired welding skills to make something useful. With tasty flesh in mind he put together this meat smoker. What resulted is incredible, but the fact that he then gave ...

Recently I was wasting time on the web and came across a couple of do-it- yourself BBQ sites. It looked fun and easy enough so I decided to give it a try. Westech Performance was throwing away a ...

This article is about how I built my vertical brick BBQ smoker. It wasn’t very difficult to do, it cost me only about $200, and it works quite well as a medium-large-capacity BBQ (does 50–75 pounds of ...

Left and center: Blazo boxes repurposed into a bedside table and storage shelves. Right: A valve installed on an oil drum. Diagrams for a shower made from a Blazo can and a box trap for small game ...

Recent smokeless fire pit testing got me to thinking that it might not be too hard to make one myself. Without taking anything away from the companies making smokeless fire pits, they’re fairly simple ...