Every fire, every cook, one home — the social network, recipes with proof, guided cooks, clubs, competition, and your whole pit, in a single app. No more juggling a timer app, a notes app, three brand apps, and a group chat.
Today a serious cook runs five apps and a group chat to do what SmokeRing does in one place. Post the cook, run the cook, judge the cook, organize the crew, keep the gear — it all lives here.
Every cook auto-builds a structured post — meat, cooker, wood, time, temps, stages, photos — plus a share-ready card. No blank page, no caption homework.
A cook in progress is a live event — followers watch the stage, the clock, and the temp curve move, and drop fire in real time.
Pick a serve time and the plan works backward from it — eat at 6, brisket goes on at 3:40 a.m. — with stage alerts, timers, and stall warnings.
A recipe here isn't an article — it shows real cooks run from it: their times, temps, and results. No untested content graveyard.
Per-meat scorecards — bark, bend, bite, moisture — weighted by the rater's palate. And the golden rule: a low score owes a tip.
Every cooker class is a Fire — Offset, Pellet, Kettle, Kamado, Flat Top, Gas — with its own clubs, feed lane, and scorecards.
Weekly club challenges, monthly tentpoles, and head-to-head callouts — same meat, same weekend, both cooks live.
The best-rated cook of the week wears the crown. The best of the month takes home a real prize — and defends both in the open.
A points league across the whole season. Every challenge finish climbs the ladder toward end-of-season honors.
Register every cooker you own — every brand, connected or not — and get stats per cooker. Your lineup is your flex.
Manuals, receipt photos, warranty dates, and maintenance reminders for all your gear — for brands whose own apps forgot you.
Your cooks auto-build into your own cookbook. Creators publish interactive Smoke Books — every recipe inside runs as a guided cook.
Kickoff-backward planning, a crew board for who's bringing what, and a Smoke-Off every college Saturday and NFL Sunday.
Fire died at 3 a.m.? One button sends your cook's stage, temps, and stall time to your crew — and help answers in-thread.
The cook screen is operated by a person with dirty hands and a brisket that won't wait. So it shows one stage, two numbers, and three buttons — nothing else competes.
ON, SPRITZ, WRAP, THE STALL, REST, SLICE — one glance tells you exactly where the cook is.
Pit and meat temps big enough to read across the yard, in bright sun or at 3 a.m. — the one number that matters is the biggest thing on screen.
Your temp history drawn live, so you see the stall forming — and the crowd can call it with a Wrap or Wait vote before you have to guess.
Log Stage, Wrap or Wait, SOS. Every mid-cook action is two taps or fewer, zero typing — photos and preset chips only. Gloves-on simple is a design law here.
Posting is good. Posting against your club, your rival, and the whole platform — with a crown on the line — is better. Entry is always just a cook: no forms, no uploads anywhere else.
Weekly club challenges from templates and monthly tentpoles — First Fire, Rib Weekend, the Turkey Trials, the Big Cook Showdown — with live leaderboards.
Challenge a friend or another club: same meat, same weekend, both cooks live side by side while everyone spectates and rates.
The week's best-rated cook wears the crown; the month's best takes the prize. Every finish also banks Smoke Season points toward the season ladder.
Judged honestly, or not at all. Standings come from Rate My Cook scorecards, weighted by each rater's proven palate — with minimum fields, no rating your own cook, and one rule that never bends: sponsors never influence standings.
Brand apps only know the cooker they sold you. My Pit knows your whole backyard — and it's the registry no single brand could ever build.
Every cooker by brand and model, with a photo, a nickname, and stats per cooker — cooks, hours, best results. Your lineup lives on your Pit Page.
Manuals, receipt photos, warranty dates, and a maintenance log with reminders — ash cleanout, gasket check, deep clean — for every cooker in the pit.
The next pit you're eyeing, on the record. And because the plan knows your actual cooker, guided cooks adjust to it — snake method on the kettle, fire checks on the offset.
Brand-agnostic, on purpose. Traeger, Weber, kettle, offset, flat top — if it cooks outside, it lives here. The dumb cookers no OEM app will ever touch are first-class citizens.
The founding library launches with 300 recipes — and every one of them shows the real cooks who ran it, what cooker they used, and how it actually came out.
Times run, real cook times, and ratings from finished cooks — not stars from people who never lit a fire.
Any recipe becomes a guided cook in one tap — backward-planned from your serve time, adjusted to your cooker.
Tell it what's thawed and how much time you have — it matches a recipe to your pit and your evening.
Your season writes its own cookbook, free. Creators publish theirs — interactive books where every recipe is executable, with readers' results living inside.
Posting, following, and commenting are never paywalled — that's the supply, and we don't charge for it. Paid tiers sell power over your own cooking, nothing else.
Before SmokeRing opens to everyone, a founding class of fifty proves it in the fire — cooking the challenges, rating honestly, and shaping what this becomes.
The founding group opens and the fifty spots are claimed through the waitlist — smokers first, every fire welcome.
First Fire, Rib Weekend, the Turkey Trials, and the Big Cook Showdown — crowning the first Pitmaster of the Season.
Founding Pitmasters lock charter pricing for life, claim the founding badge, and get the printed Year in Smoke book included.
Free to join the waitlist. No spam — the fire only.
Outdoor cooking is a year-round ritual in most American backyards — and until now, the people who do it have had no home of their own. SmokeRing is that home. If your brand cooks, fuels, slices, seasons, or measures, this is your room.
Put your name on the rhythm of the community: weekly club challenges and monthly tentpoles — First Fire, Rib Weekend, the Turkey Trials, the Big Cook Showdown — with participation you can count, cook by cook.
Top Fire honors are backed by sponsor-supplied prizes as partners come aboard — gear, fuel, and craft goods in the hands of the cooks who earned them, in front of the community that watched them do it.
My Pit is a member-kept registry of what people actually cook on — and what they want next. Partners receive that picture as anonymized, aggregate audience insight: ownership and intent across the whole backyard, never a single member's data.
Our side of the bargain: sponsorships are always labeled, sponsors never influence Rate My Cook scores or standings, and member data is never sold. Audience insight is reported in aggregate only — individual members are never identified to sponsors.
Grills, fuel, thermometers, knives, rubs, local shops — founding partners get the founding window. Tell us what you make.
All of them. Offset, pellet, kettle, kamado, flat top, gas, pizza oven — every brand, connected or not. Each cooker class is a Fire with its own clubs, challenges, and scorecards, so a purist's feed never has to see a pancake and a flat-top cook never has to pretend to own an offset.
The app is free: the full social network, all community recipes, challenge entry, and basic tools. Pro is $3.99/mo or $39.99/yr and adds unlimited guided cooks, advanced planners, and your personal cook analytics. Posting, following, and commenting are never paywalled.
SmokeRing is in its founding season now — a founding class of 50 pitmasters is proving it before the public launch. Join the waitlist to claim a spot and be first in when the doors open.
Today, you log temps in two taps mid-cook — no typing, gloves on. Integrations with MEATER and FireBoard are on the roadmap: SmokeRing connects to the probe, not the grill, so any cooker you own can become a connected cooker.
No. Member data is never sold, and sponsors never see individual members — partners receive anonymized, aggregate insight only, and sponsorships are always labeled. Sponsors also never influence Rate My Cook scores or standings.
SmokeRing is a product of Shield IQ LLC — built by people who cook outside, for people who cook outside. Every fire, one house.