About Us
ABOUT WORKHORSE PITS
Workhorse Pits builds handcrafted, American-made offset smokers designed for serious backyard barbecue and traditional wood-fire cooking. We celebrate that tradition by building heirloom-quality smokers engineered for exceptional performance, durability, and craftsmanship.
With more than 9,000 smokers shipped worldwide, Workhorse Pits has earned a strong reputation among backyard pitmasters for consistent cooking performance, thoughtful design, and long-term durability.
WHY WORKHORSE?
At Workhorse Pits, our smoker designs are guided by engineering, testing, and real-world cooking performance. We apply knowledge and experience gained through our sister company, Primitive Pits, a global leader in the commercial offset smoker industry serving some of the biggest names in barbecue.
That experience allows us to bring commercial-inspired design and engineering to backyard offset smokers, with a focus on airflow, heat distribution, fire management, craftsmanship, and value.
HOW DO WE DO IT?
Our investment in computational fluid dynamics allows us to study how heat and smoke move throughout the cooking chamber and continuously refine our smoker designs.
Workhorse offset smokers are engineered to maintain remarkably consistent temperatures across the grates while giving cooks the control needed to run a clean, efficient wood fire. Achieving that level of performance requires more than fabrication alone. It takes careful engineering, precision fitting, quality materials, and close attention to detail.
Every Workhorse Pit is handcrafted with those principles in mind and built to deliver dependable performance for years of serious barbecue.
WOOD FIRE MERCANTILE
Visit our flagship factory store, Wood Fire Mercantile, located on our campus in Cleveland, Georgia. The 6,000-square-foot retail space and showroom features barbecue equipment, cooking tools, accessories, and products for wood-fire and outdoor cooking.
Our team is available to offer advice, answer questions, and help customers choose the right equipment for their cooking needs.