A followup to my previous post on Battle Goat… One of the biggest surprises of the night was Andres’ use of a modified pipe to trap applewood smoke under the glass dome covers for his BBQ ribs dish. All of the judges seemed quite taken with the applewood aroma when the ribs were un-domed. If you want to attempt this smoke technique at home, try Chow’s review of aromatic smoking devices.

PolyScience’s The Smoking Gun:

Storz & Bickel VOLCANO vaporizer: