Smoke & Sear – BBQ Recipes, Tips, and Outdoor Cooking Inspiration
Where Smoke Meets Sear, and Flavour Rules.
Smoke & Sear – BBQ Recipes, Tips, and Outdoor Cooking Inspiration
Where Smoke Meets Sear, and Flavour Rules.
Smoke & Sear – BBQ Recipes, Tips, and Outdoor Cooking Inspiration
Where Smoke Meets Sear, and Flavour Rules.
Rich, bold, and seriously underrated β duck brings a next-level flavour to your BBQ game. Whether you’re smoking it low and slow, crisping up that golden skin, or shredding it into bao buns and pancakes, duck delivers juicy meat with a depth that holds its own against strong rubs and sweet glazes.
Rich, bold, and seriously underrated β duck brings a next-level flavour to your BBQ game. Whether you’re smoking it low and slow, crisping up that golden skin, or shredding it into bao buns and pancakes, duck delivers juicy meat with a depth that holds its own against strong rubs and sweet glazes.
Booked it the night before. Turned out to be one of the best little trips weβve had.
@pinecones_cc is just over an hour from home, so with the @tentbox already on the car, we just went.
The Sandringham Royal Estate is only about a 30-minute walk from the site and the play park is HUGE. Because we walked over, no parking charge either. A few hours out for free and the kids loved it . . . canβt argue with that π
Then back to site for fish and chips, a few drinks in the bar, frisbee, board games and movies in the TentBox.
This is exactly why I keep it on the car.
Last-minute adventures are what itβs all about. β€οΈ
This is the kind of content I create for brands . . .
Product demonstrations, recipe content, photography, UGC and short-form video designed for websites, social media and advertising.
This reel includes work from previous projects and collaborations with Ninja, iGulu, Hohem, Great Balls of Flour, The Village Butchers and Bradley Smokers.
Smoke & Sear now has more than 45,000 followers across social media, while the website has attracted around 100,000 users so far in 2026.
Iβve currently got capacity for a few more paid content projects . . . particularly with food, BBQ, outdoor and lifestyle brands.
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AD | Pizza dough has been my nemesis for YEARS . . . so I basically stopped bothering. ππ₯
No matter what recipe I tried, I could never quite get it right.
Well . . . turns out I donβt have that problem anymore. π
@greatballs.of.flour sent me their Essential Box and, apart from your toppings of choice, it contains everything you need to make 12 pizzas for just over Β£40.
For context, a Dominoβs round here is about Β£14 a pizza. We enjoy it at the time . . . then about an hour later weβre all sat there questioning our life choices. π
So instead, I dragged the three kids outside and we made our own.
Were they perfectly round? Absolutely not.
Was there flour everywhere? Obviously.
Did we have a laugh, get the kids involved in cooking and make some genuinely epic pizzas? 100%.
And that was the bit I loved most.
The dough was an absolute joy to work with β genuinely easy enough for the kids to stretch and shape themselves β and everyone got to make exactly what they wanted.
We spread it over a couple of days, made a load of different pizzas and obviously finished things properly with a chocolate and marshmallow pizza. π€€
For just over Β£40 for 12 pizzas, this was a seriously good way to turn dinner into something we actually did together.
And finally . . . pizza dough and I might have made peace. ππ
The Essential Box was kindly sent to me by Great Balls of Flour for me to try and create some content with. All thoughts are my own.
If my 3-year-old daughter could get outside and cook . . . whatβs stopping you? π₯
This popped up in my memories today from 2021, and it proper got me.
My kids are my world. Being a single, full-time dad to three is stressful, chaotic and rarely goes to plan . . . but I wouldnβt have it any other way.
Iβve always dragged them into this outdoor cooking journey with me, and looking back at videos like this reminds me why.
The cooks get forgotten.
The recipes change.
The kit changes.
But the memories? They stick.
This one also takes me right back to the early days of Smoke & Sear, when @bradleysmoker were the first brand to ever reach out and back what I was doing.
Iβve never forgotten that.
And funny enough, I still use my Bradley all the time today β especially for hot holding. Absolute workhorse.
Five years on, the Moink Balls are long gone.
But this little moment?
Thatβs priceless. β€οΈπ₯
One week since MEATUP . . . and honestly, weβre already missing it. π₯
Seeing so many people walking around the festival wearing FOURGE hoodies was a proper moment for us. Four mates started this β and suddenly, there was a whole crew carrying the flame with us.
There are now only a limited number of places remaining among the first 50 FOURGE Founders.
The Β£150 Founders Box includes:
π₯ The Founders Fourged in Fire Hoodie
π₯ Your choice of FOURGE T-shirt or trucker cap
π₯ All five Pass the Flame rubs
π₯ Two future FOURGE releases before public launch
π₯ A numbered Founders Wallet Card with 10% off food at FOURGE-run events
π₯ Your permanent place on the FOURGE Founders Wall
Use code MEATUP at checkout to save 20% β bringing the Founders Box down from Β£150 to Β£120.
When the first 50 places are secured, it closes. No second drop. No reopening the gate.
Secure your place:
https://www.fourge.uk/product/founders-box/
Meet the Founders already carrying the flame:
https://www.fourge.uk/story/founders/
UNITED BY FLAME. π₯
#FOURGE #UnitedByFlame #MEATUPFestival #UKBBQ #LiveFire BBQCommunity
MEATUP 2026 . . . what a weekend. π₯
Our first ever festival as FOURGE.
In just two days we served 617 customers . . . a number that genuinely blows our minds.
As someone whoβs usually hiding behind a screen or an iPhone, I wasnβt prepared for just how tough festival life is. Massive respect to everyone who does this every weekendβI was a broken man by the end of day one! π
The best part? Meeting so many of you, seeing people wearing FOURGE merch, hearing incredible feedback, and watching a brand thatβs only a year old become part of something so special.
To everyone who queued, supported us, shared a laugh or simply stopped by to say hello . . . thank you. β€οΈ
If this was @meatupfestival first year, we genuinely canβt wait to see what the future holds.
617 transactions.
One unforgettable weekend.
Weβll be back. π₯
#FOURGE #MEATUP #BBQ #LiveFire #FoodFestival
π₯ WE NEED YOUR FOURGE PHOTOS & VIDEOS! π₯
If you captured our food, us cooking, or any of the absolute legends walking around MEATUP in our merch β and youβre happy for us to share it β please upload it here:
https://www.fourge.uk/share/
THANK YOU to everyone for the love you showed us this weekend. Our first-ever festival as FOURGE was absolutely non-stop!
Iβm physically and mentally ruinedβ¦ but Iβd do it all again. Maybe not next weekend though π
Seriously, your support genuinely means the world to us.
Lee, Liam, Andy & Ben π§‘π₯
THREE BBQS. THREE FAMILY DINNERS. ONE BOX. π₯
This is the BBQ Basics Box from Village Butchers, and rather than cooking the whole lot for one massive BBQ, I wanted to see how far we could actually make it go.
The answer? Three completely different dinners for me and the three kids β with plenty to go around.
π₯© Inside the box:
β’ 1kg Korean-style beef short ribs (Galbi / flanken cut)
β’ 2 x 10β12oz rump steaks
β’ 4 x 110g beef steak burgers
β’ 6 traditional English sausages
β’ 1kg butterfly chicken breast
β’ 4 lamb kebabs
β’ 2 pork chops
We spread it across three nights, kept the sides simple and cooked outside each evening.
π₯ Night one β Olivia joined me for burgers and sausages on the Ninja FlexFlame.
π₯ Night two β Oakley helped cook the rump steaks and butterfly chicken over charcoal on the Weber Go Anywhere.
π₯ Night three β Oscar joined me on the Kamado Joe for Korean short ribs, pork chops and lamb kebabs.
Nothing overly complicated. No expensive sides. No turning dinner into an all-day cook.
Just decent meat, simple sides and three proper family dinners.
BBQ doesnβt always need to be a big event. Sometimes itβs just dinner β cooked outside.
You can grab the BBQ Basics Box from Village Butchers here:
https://thevillagebutchers.co.uk/shop/meat-boxes/bbq-basics/
For clarity: Village Butchers sent me the BBQ Basics Box free of charge. I decided to turn it into three family dinners and cook each one with my kids.