FAQ

Courses run on the days specified on our courses page and start at the time associated with each course. We aim to finish at the specified time, but sometimes run over due to the nature of what we're doing.

Address details can be found on our get in touch page. The postcode is BD23 6DR and our What3Words location is ///swooned.wallet.chained - https://w3w.co/swooned.wallet.chained

John and Dan make up the Yorkshire BBQ Academy team. We both have a huge passion for cooking over fire and passing on the knowledge we've built up over the years. 

John has a background in not only agriculture, but also the beer industry and catering. He caught the BBQ bug around 10 years ago and has been cooking all year round ever since. John buys all the latest BBQ gadgets and BBQ's, much to the appreciation of his wife! His favourite bit of gear is his beloved Kamado Joe - Classic III. It's an absolute beast!

Dan started cooking over fire in his early teens on a homemade BBQ his Dad built. He's prepared food on all manner of grills for 20+ years starting with open grills, before upgrading to a Weber kettle and that's when it got really serious. Dan's favorite grill is the classic and massively versatile Weber Kettle. Using it to cook anything from low 'n' slow briskets to a quick smash burger.

It's all about BBQ. Cooking over charcoal is our passion and we want to pass this on to you along with the knowledge we've acquired over the years. From choosing your first BBQ (we have a quite a few between us), to setting up a snake (not a recipe by the way), and reverse sear to low 'n' slow cooking techniques. Our courses page outlines in more detail what subjects we teach in each course. And if there's anything we don't know, we'll try our hardest to find out. We love a challenge.

Nope. Our BBQ Essentials course is suitable for those with no previous experience at all, and those who already BBQ. We'll cover everything from buying your first BBQ to cleaning up afterwards. For those who are more advanced, we also have an intermediate course where we build on the basic BBQ techniques.

For 2025 we've added our Yorkshire Meats Texas course where we take great produce from Yorkshire and get our deep South cook on. Brisket, footlong dogs, ribs, cornbread - you get the idea.

We have a range of BBQ's which includes Kamado's of various sizes, Weber kettles - large and small, a Weber Smokey Mountain, Gas grills, a Traeger Ironwood and Ranger pellet smoker, an Ozpig and a couple of pizza ovens. We accept we have a problem and thankfully so do our wives which means we can keep buying more! It's an addiction. (We can teach you that too).

The Yorkshire BBQ Academy is set up to teach 12 people per course with 2 of us teaching. That might seem overkill on the tutor front but we seriously love it. We both do this in our "spare" time (as spare as time can be with full time jobs and 2 young kids in each family). It's just not a job to us. It's a passion and we like to keep it laid back and relaxed as you learn.

Based just outside Skipton which is known as The Gateway to the Yorkshire Dales - we're just off the A59 roughly halfway between Harrogate and Preston. See our get in touch page for address and map. We have plenty of parking on site and there's good train transport links from Leeds/Bradford and Lancaster if you're not driving. The Yorkshire BBQ Academy is around a 5 minute taxi journey from Skipton train station.

We teach students from 16 years to 116 years old. It's never too late to learn cooking over fire. And whilst we'd love to get younger kids into creating awesome food outside, we've got to set the minimum age limit somewhere. You must be 16 or older to take one of our courses.

That's an easy one - Just yourself......and a tolerance for two guys that go on and on about BBQ. Oh, and some questions. We love questions. Especially ones we don't know the answer to. By getting you the answer we learn something new (and often try it out too). In fact if you have something challenging send it to us prior to the course and we'll try cover it whilst you are with us.