Chuds BBQ

Chuds BBQ is a Texas barbecue channel known for doing everything the hard way on purpose. The pitmaster behind it builds his own smokers and grills, grinds his own beef from brisket trimmings and chuck roast, bakes his own buns and even makes American cheese from scratch with cheddar and sodium citrate. The descriptions carry the gram-level recipes for all of it.

His burgers range from the everyday to the ambitious. The Chud Burger 2.0 is his perfected weeknight smash burger, and there are smoked smash burgers flavoured with different woods, a charcoal-grilled burger on the Weber kettle, a smoked bacon cheeseburger on smoked buns and a dry-aged smoked wagyu burger. He also rebuilds classics from scratch: a Baconator better than Wendy’s, In-N-Out’s Animal Style, a Big Mac that is bigger in Texas, a McDouble with homemade McDouble-style buns, the Wisconsin butter burger with cultured butter and the Oklahoma onion burger.

Texas barbecue joints are a recurring inspiration, from a LeRoy and Lewis-style pork burger to a jalapeño popper smash burger modelled on a local favourite, and chicken sandwiches cooked over direct heat round out the list.