Franklin BBQ Pits - How Our Pits are designed and why

you can really sense the passion and knowledge he exudes

Best offset money can buy. When your fire is balanced it almost vibrates like a fan is running. The weight helps hold the heat so it’s forgiving if you aren’t sitting there watching each moment. Buy yours and never look back and give it to your grandkids.

You know what I like most about this video? The excitement Aaron has when walking through every intricate detail of the design. This is clearly a culmination of years of experimentation, successes and failures, and thousands of cooks. He is a true expert, and has such a sincere passion for his craft. Thank you Aaron for sharing this!

Aaron Franklin is a multi trade wealth of knowledge. Rarely can person encapsulate an entire cuisine with such charisma and ‘frankly’ - swagger. As a multi cuisine cook and former chef that has become a fairly decent hobby welder and de facto historian of cuisine origins, WELL DONE🙌🏽

They are no joke! Cooked on one for the first time a couple weeks ago. It really is designed for great brisket!

Heck, I'm sold! Now if I can only find $6000.

You are a true Texas legend!

You’ve worked in or around the oil and gas industry, haven’t you? The reason I ask is you’re using terms that only people intimate with the materials and industries would use and understand. I retired from the industry. Very nice smoker. I’ve cranked out a lot of Q on an offset. But my demands quickly outgrew the multiple offset smokers that I was using. So I built a large reverse flow water bath smoker. I built a tandem axle trailer for it. After using at least two 7018’s and 6010’s doing a tweak or two, I’m finally happy with the way it cooks. I can tune my hot / cold spots via tuners, depending on what I’m cooking and my needs at the time. Most people don’t realize how much work goes into a high quality pit!

I love the location of the drain. This is where it would make sense to be, and I’ve always disliked my pits’ locations at the other end. When the pit is level, or favoring the stack high, this is where the grease goes, right toward the fire. Nicely thought out AF!

What a nerd! (in the best, best way☺- thank you for your attention to detail. I learned a lot just from watching this.)

I have wanted to learn bbq for years and watching Franklin's bbq videos have definitely giving me inspiration to strive on cooking the best bbq I can. Truly the best pit design and quality, I've got to order me this.

"Geographical center of a Brisket" that is awesome, made me chuckle a bit, Aaron is the mad scientist of BBQ, these pits are expensive, but will be the last one you (and your kids) will every buy...nice job.

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Incredible! Perfectionist with passion = outstanding results. Bucket list includes a trip to Austin to taste the Franklin experience and then the ultimate- bringing one of these back to NJ to elevate my game. Love what you do Aaron! Thank you!

Fluid dynamics have never been so delicious🔥💨😋🍻

"it's all about the details. they matter." looks great. cooks great.

Can't wait to have space for one of these. Looks amazing!

Looks amazing. I really appreciate all the thought that went into this pit and it’s quality. Up here in Canada, they run for $8000. I do not dispute the pricing, but it’s out of my budget. But I would definitely love one.

i love how much this guy loves his product. Good old America

Great information and lots of study went into this. Makes someone appreciate the work of art more!