A working companion to Volume 1: The Complete PR Guide
The Kitchen
A free recipe, training, costing, production, barbecue and Texas food-culture system for the people who keep the room fed.
Practical application
Kitchen tools
Cost, price, prepare, audit, and improve food and barbecue operations. These tools also identify the book principles they extend.
Barbecue Cook Timeline GeneratorOpen tool →Barbecue Production PlannerOpen tool →Batch Recipe ScalerOpen tool →Bottle Yield and Overpour CalculatorOpen tool →Brisket Cost and Yield CalculatorOpen tool →Drink Menu Profitability AnalyzerOpen tool →Firewood Seasoning LogOpen tool →Food Contribution-Margin CalculatorOpen tool →
Seven selective entrances
Start with the job in front of you.
Find a RecipeSearch by ingredient, service model, time, culture, equipment or food family.Plan a MenuBuild a working menu and evaluate overlap, capacity and price.Scale & Cost FoodEvery recipe now includes a Recipe-to-Service Engine.Learn the KitchenSix progressive levels and 36 practical lessons.Run the ShiftPrep, pars, production, handoff and close.Master the PitFire, wood, meat, yield, holding and service.Explore Texas Food CultureCome for the food. Leave understanding the people and room.
The defining system
Turn every recipe into a service package.
Scale it, cost it, schedule it, document safety checkpoints, create a station card and record the venue’s actual test result—all without an account.
Open the 76 recipes76structured recipes
36Academy lessons
25food tools
10+cultural doorways
The complete working library remains
Go deeper when the job requires it.
The Pit RoomWood, combustion, smoke, brisket, ribs, poultry, sausage, holding and slicing.Safety & AllergensReceiving, storage, cooking, cooling, holding, illness and allergen controls.Menu & PricingYield, shrinkage, food cost, contribution and service design.Kitchen OperationsPurchasing, staffing, opening, closing, maintenance and waste.Food Truck Field GuidePartnerships, permitting, service, insurance and event operations.Texas Food HistoryRegional foodways, community gathering and preservation.Food & Barbecue ToolsCalculators, logs, planners, checklists and production systems.Testing & Editorial StandardsSee what has been confirmed, what remains a working specification and how corrections work.