Daniel Vaughn

Barbecue Editor @TexasMonthly, also tweeting as @tmbbq. Author of @ThePOSM.

[Daniel Vaughn @BBQsnob]

The 2025 Texas Monthly Top 50 BBQ list. https://t.co/bf1U11Fi7w

[Texas Monthly @TexasMonthly]

Listen, brisket’s expensive right now.

We have an alternative for you to try at your favorite joint. https://t.co/1RoazlVOOH

[Dead Meat Society @DeadMeatSociety]

The future of BBQ is 110 teams of high schoolers firing up smokers at 5:30am in 100 degree heat. No gas. No electric. Just fire and craft. @BBQsnob at @TexasMonthly was there for all of it. Tag the young griller in your life who needs to see this.

Shared from this week's Dead Meat Spam, link in bio. 🔥

https://t.co/YY52bqCvOe

[First We Feast @firstwefeast]

@bbqsnob took us to barbecue church 🍖⛪️ #promoves

📍 @kreuzmarket in Lockhart, Texas

[Shameless Frontier Mayor and Booster @jamesdecker2006]

Right after posting that, I ran across this new piece from @TexasMonthly @tmbbq editor @BBQsnob on the very topic of the historical flexibility of Texas barbecue menus and pitmasters who are experimenting today.

Shoulder clod, tri-tip, smoked cheek, and more are featured and deservedly so.

https://t.co/HcdhmKXFhX

[Shameless Frontier Mayor and Booster @jamesdecker2006]

Beef price discourse is spiraling and the screwworm theatrics are only going to make it worse.

The hype explosion in Texas barbecue over recent decades is built heavily on brisket. There are limited options to cook it, so it was cheap. A cheap, bulk cut that tastes great when smoked? Perfect for the basis of a barbecue menu. That was the genius of brisket. But there’s only one per animal and only so much to go around.

So when everyone opens up a barbecue restaurant and everyone wants to serve brisket, of course the prices are going to skyrocket, even apart from the general rise in beef prices.

The next phase of genius is making great barbecue without breaking the bank on brisket. Texas pit masters did it for decades. Brisket became the thing because people decided it was the thing.

Today, smart folks are experimenting with plenty of other cuts as a direct reaction to brisket prices. There’s so much you can do with beef beyond ground beef, grilling steaks, and smoking brisket.

Those folks deserve to be spotlighted, instead of just doom-and-gloom.

[Travis Galey @travisgaley]

@BBQsnob I would argue that nobody, outside of Germany, does sausages better than Texas BBQ. And Texas is the king of BBQ turkey.

[Daniel Vaughn @BBQsnob]

Texas BBQ is Bigger then Brisket

[Texas Monthly @TexasMonthly]

Despite recent national-media hand-wringing, our barbecue editor @BBQsnob is here to remind you there's more to Texas barbecue than just one cut of beef. https://t.co/YAkhobjDAh

[Zavala's Barbecue @zavalasbarbecue]

We will be open 30 days straight!!! Father’s Day! 4th of July! All 9 games! Pull up!

[Texas Monthly @TexasMonthly]

Poor Daddy's Smokehouse BBQ, in Kermit, offers monster barbecue sandwiches to fuel locals and nearby laborers. https://t.co/gL8GE4KvH8

[Ben Rowen @ben_c_rowen]

A good time to be working at the best publication in America and a great time to become a subscriber: https://t.co/K5myA4b9JR

[Texas Monthly @TexasMonthly]

With a team of tasters and scouts, taco editor @TacoTrail visited nearly two hundred taquerias for this midterm report. What he found? Nothing gets in the way of guts, desire, determination, and hard work. 🌮

The 25 best new taquerias all have that quality: https://t.co/Sxvc3issci

[Ryan Whittle @ryanwhittle]

I was desperately homesick and @2fiftybbq (original location, not k street) plus a hearty hello from @Fernando_GoPe healed me.

They are on @BBQsnob’s best bbq outside of Texas list for a reason…

[Single Tree BBQ @EblenCharlie]

We had the pleasure of sitting down with Texas Monthly’s editor and talk all things bbq on latest episode of Single Tree Nation with @bbqsnob #singletreebbq #commmunity #nikeofbbq #newepisode #bbq

[José R. Ralat 🌶️ @TacoTrail]

The hunt for Texas' lost missions led me & @mrbravo365 to strange places, including a metal-fenced cemetery exclusively for members of the Ochoa family with carefully placed fake flowers. And a lot of empty fields. Read more in my @TexasMonthly story below https://t.co/vL4jUILGeS

[Texas Monthly @TexasMonthly]

Southern Living included some joints our barbecue editor @bbqsnob hadn’t yet tried on its 2025 Top 50 BBQ list. . .

So he decided to take a little road trip. 🚗 https://t.co/Ih0u6u6GJf

[Texas Monthly @TexasMonthly]

You won’t find offset or rotisserie smokers at Cooper’s Original Pit Bar-B-Q, in Mason.

But you will find Dillon Estes and crew working the old steel pits. https://t.co/7WAWT1t0fj

[Texas Monthly @TexasMonthly]

DQ’s, in Marlin, closed its permanent building and reopened in a nearby trailer.

Pitmaster Daquinton Stuart hopes customers find him soon. https://t.co/XfkAnOR5BO

[Ed Lavandera @edlavaCNN]

I would love to know if my friend @BBQsnob would put the @NASAArtemis brisket on the @TexasMonthly Top 50 BBQ list.
They wouldn’t let me taste it but here you go!

[Texas Monthly @TexasMonthly]

Starting this weekend, episodes of our PBS show "Texas Monthly Presents: The Story" will air on select PBS stations and nationwide on the PBS app and website.

The series immerses viewers in a diverse lineup of stories from across Texas. Check your local listings, here: https://t.co/2qlXe9tTQB

[Daniel Vaughn @BBQsnob]

@PJDVandenBerg Little Miss BBQ