The social network for people who cook outside. Post the cook, follow your crew, and cook together from anywhere — every fire, every brand, one home. The recipes, guided cooks, clubs, and competition come with it: the whole backyard, in a single app.
Free to join. Free to post, follow, and cook — the whole social network is free. Pro is optional.
600
recipes in the founding library
50
founding spots in the first class
Every brand
welcome — no brand wall, ever
Built to be social
Cooking is better with your people in it.
Barbecue was never a solo sport — it just never had a home online. SmokeRing is that home: a feed of real cooks from real people, live fires you can ride along on, and a crew that's with you from first light to the slice.
The Feed
Your home screen is your people cooking. Every post is a real cook — meat, cooker, wood, time, temps, the result — from friends, clubs, and pitmasters you follow. No filler, no strangers served by an algorithm.
Follow Your Crew
Your roommate's kettle, your uncle's offset, the club across town, the pitmaster you want to learn from. Follow them once and every cook they run lands in your feed — and yours lands in theirs.
Live Cooks
A cook in progress is a live event. Watch the stage word change, the stall hit, the wrap happen — in real time, from your couch, your shift, or three states away. Your crew is courtside for every fire you run.
Flames & Comments
The flame is the like — one tap, no reaction zoo. And comments land mid-cook: "wrap it now," "hold steady," the exact encouragement a 3 a.m. brisket needs, from people who know your fire.
Crew Chats & Callouts
Your crew gets a real chat — the people you actually cook with, not a noisy public room. And when talk isn't enough, call somebody out: same meat, same weekend, both cooks live, everyone watching.
Rate My Cook
Post the slice and your people score it — bark, bend, bite, moisture — on proper per-meat scorecards, weighted by each rater's proven palate. The golden rule keeps every judge honest: a low score owes a tip.
Smoke Signals
Opt in and see who's cooking around you right now — a fuzzed, neighborhood-level map of live fires. Find a cookout down the street, meet the pit you've been smelling for years, grow the crew. Opt-in only, always.
Cook Cards
Every cook auto-builds a beautiful card — the dish, the cooker, the money shot, your standing. Share it to Facebook, Instagram, or X in one tap and bring the outside world back to the fire.
Pit Pages
Your profile is your pit: your lineup, your stats, your streaks and badges — and the Top Fire crowns you've worn. It's the résumé every backyard cook always deserved and never had a place to keep.
The group chat was never going to be enough. Bring your crew home.
Free forever for the whole network. No card, no trial clock.
Everything in one place
One app. The whole backyard.
Cooking was always social — SmokeRing just built the room for it. Post the cook, follow the crew, run the cook, judge the cook, organize the challenge, keep the gear: it all lives here, instead of five apps and a group chat.
The Cook is the post
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.
Live Cooks
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.
Follow Your Crew
Follow friends, your club, and the pitmasters you want to learn from. Their cooks, their live fires, their results — your feed is your crew, not an algorithm's strangers.
Clubs & Fires
Every cooker class is a Fire — Offset, Pellet, Kettle, Kamado, Flat Top, Gas — with its own clubs, feed lane, and scorecards.
Challenges & Callouts
Weekly club challenges, monthly tentpoles, and head-to-head callouts — same meat, same weekend, both cooks live.
Rate My Cook
Per-meat scorecards — bark, bend, bite, moisture — weighted by the rater's palate. And the golden rule: a low score owes a tip.
Guided Cooks
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.
Recipes with proof
A recipe here isn't an article — it shows real cooks run from it: their times, temps, and results. No untested content graveyard.
Top Fire
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.
Smoke Season
A points league across the whole season. Every challenge finish climbs the ladder toward end-of-season honors.
My Pit registry
Register every cooker you own — every brand, connected or not — and get stats per cooker. Your lineup is your flex.
Manual & warranty vault
Manuals, receipt photos, warranty dates, and maintenance reminders for all your gear — for brands whose own apps forgot you.
Smoke Books
Your cooks auto-build into your own cookbook. Creators publish interactive Smoke Books — every recipe inside runs as a guided cook.
Game Day mode
Kickoff-backward planning, a crew board for who's bringing what, and a Smoke-Off every college Saturday and NFL Sunday.
Pit Crew SOS
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.
Anatomy of a cook
Built for gloves, sun, and 3 a.m.
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.
01
The stage word, huge
ON, SPRITZ, WRAP, THE STALL, REST, SLICE — one glance tells you exactly where the cook is.
02
Giant temps
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.
03
The stall curve
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.
04
Three buttons. That's it.
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.
Compete
Cook against somebody.
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.
01
Challenges
Weekly club challenges from templates and monthly tentpoles — First Fire, Rib Weekend, the Turkey Trials, the Big Cook Showdown — with live leaderboards.
02
Callouts
Challenge a friend or another club: same meat, same weekend, both cooks live side by side while everyone spectates and rates.
03
Top Fire & Smoke Season
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.
Your Pit
Every cooker you own. One lineup.
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.
01
The registry
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.
02
The vault
Manuals, receipt photos, warranty dates, and a maintenance log with reminders — ash cleanout, gasket check, deep clean — for every cooker in the pit.
03
The wishlist
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.
Learn
Recipes that carry their receipts.
The founding library launches with 600 recipes — and every one of them shows the real cooks who ran it, what cooker they used, and how it actually came out.
01
Proof, attached
Times run, real cook times, and ratings from finished cooks — not stars from people who never lit a fire.
02
Cook it, guided
Any recipe becomes a guided cook in one tap — backward-planned from your serve time, adjusted to your cooker.
03
Tonight's Cook
Tell it what's thawed and how much time you have — it matches a recipe to your pit and your evening.
04
Smoke Books
Your season writes its own cookbook, free. Creators publish theirs — interactive books where every recipe is executable, with readers' results living inside.
Pricing
The network is free. Forever.
That is a product law, not a launch offer: posting, following, and commenting will never be paywalled — that's the supply, and we don't charge for it. Paid tiers sell power over your own cooking, nothing else. Free isn't the trial. Free is the network.
Free forever
Free
$0
forever — no card, no trial clock, no catch
The full social network — feed, follows, comments, clubs
Unlimited cook posts & live cooks
The guided-cook planner — backward-planned from your serve time
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.
Opening week
The doors open
The founding group opens and the fifty spots are claimed through the waitlist — smokers first, every fire welcome.
The weeks that follow
Four weeks of challenges
First Fire, Rib Weekend, the Turkey Trials, and the Big Cook Showdown — crowning the first Pitmaster of the Season.
When the season wraps
The founding pre-sale
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.
Founding-sponsor window · Open now
Sponsors & partners
Your customers are gathering here.
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.
Challenge sponsorship
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.
Prize partnerships
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.
Know the backyard
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.
Straight answers
Questions, answered.
Which cookers does SmokeRing work with?
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.
What does it cost?
The app is free: the full social network, all community recipes, challenge entry — and the guided-cook planner, backward-planned from your serve time, with the planning tools included. Posting, following, and commenting are never paywalled. Pro is $3.99/mo or $39.99/yr and adds unlimited guided cooks, your personal cook analytics, an 85% creator cut, and the printed Year in Smoke book at member price. Pro is an optional upgrade, never a toll on the community.
When can I get it?
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.
Does it connect to my probes?
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.
Is my data sold to sponsors?
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.
Who runs SmokeRing?
SmokeRing is a product of Shield IQ LLC — built by people who cook outside, for people who cook outside. Every fire, one house.
Cooking is better with your people in it.
Barbecue was never a solo sport — it just never had a home online. SmokeRing is that home: a feed of real cooks from real people, live fires you can ride along on, and a crew that's with you from first light to the slice.
The Feed
Your home screen is your people cooking. Every post is a real cook — meat, cooker, wood, time, temps, the result — from friends, clubs, and pitmasters you follow. No filler, no strangers served by an algorithm.
Follow Your Crew
Your roommate's kettle, your uncle's offset, the club across town, the pitmaster you want to learn from. Follow them once and every cook they run lands in your feed — and yours lands in theirs.
Live Cooks
A cook in progress is a live event. Watch the stage word change, the stall hit, the wrap happen — in real time, from your couch, your shift, or three states away. Your crew is courtside for every fire you run.
Flames & Comments
The flame is the like — one tap, no reaction zoo. And comments land mid-cook: "wrap it now," "hold steady," the exact encouragement a 3 a.m. brisket needs, from people who know your fire.
Crew Chats & Callouts
Your crew gets a real chat — the people you actually cook with, not a noisy public room. And when talk isn't enough, call somebody out: same meat, same weekend, both cooks live, everyone watching.
Rate My Cook
Post the slice and your people score it — bark, bend, bite, moisture — on proper per-meat scorecards, weighted by each rater's proven palate. The golden rule keeps every judge honest: a low score owes a tip.
Smoke Signals
Opt in and see who's cooking around you right now — a fuzzed, neighborhood-level map of live fires. Find a cookout down the street, meet the pit you've been smelling for years, grow the crew. Opt-in only, always.
Cook Cards
Every cook auto-builds a beautiful card — the dish, the cooker, the money shot, your standing. Share it to Facebook, Instagram, or X in one tap and bring the outside world back to the fire.
Pit Pages
Your profile is your pit: your lineup, your stats, your streaks and badges — and the Top Fire crowns you've worn. It's the résumé every backyard cook always deserved and never had a place to keep.
The group chat was never going to be enough. Bring your crew home.
Join free — bring your crewFree forever for the whole network. No card, no trial clock.