Cookshack is the leading authority in barbecue cooking, products and technology. We provide high-end products with exceptional satisfaction to our customers.

Cookshack is the best in the world at providing barbecue solutions: making customers successful through knowledge sharing and resolution-based customer service. We communicate our knowledge to restaurants, professional competitors, and back-yard barbecue enthusiasts by means of focused marketing initiatives and accessible staff. We will be first-to-market with products that are recognized as “the best”.

We deliver the taste of barbecue to the world.

Cookshack's philosophy is a reflection of its origins as a small, family owned business. The company provides a good product at a fair price. We have a strong work ethic, and we believe that the customer is (almost) always right. We do our best to provide excellent customer service by telephone, e-mail, and our website forum . Cookshack products are made in the USA, and always have been.

Cookshack was started in the early 1960's by Gene and Judy Ellis of Ponca City, OK. Mr. Ellis was an inventor and entrepreneur who loved barbecue and wanted to find "a better way" to produce great barbecue. The two collaborated on the recipes that became the formulas for our Spicy Barbecue Sauce and dry spice blends.

Mr. and Mrs. Ellis ran the company until their deaths in 1985, when their son and daughter, Mark Ellis and Donna Ellis Johnson, took the helm. In 1992, Stuart Powell stepped in as General Manager. John Shiflet, the company's national sales manager, has been a part of the Cookshack team since 1985 and plays a key role in the company's success. Sales have climbed steadily since the company's beginning. Our fastest growing product is the Cookshack Smokette for home use. We employ approximately 25 people in our 21,000 sq. ft. factory in Ponca City, OK.

Our employees are our greatest asset. Most key employees have been with the company for 10 to 20 years. We take pride in making our products in the USA, and in the service that we provide after the sale.

In late 2004, we began a relationship with Fast Eddy's BBQ to manufacture and market the Fast Eddy's by Cookshack line of large pit smokers. These pits were developed on the barbecue circuit by Ed "Fast Eddy" Maurin, winner of numerous Grand Championships from the barbecue competition circuit. These 100% wood burning pits extended our product line to enable Cookshack to meet just about every need for a smoker oven or pit.

Commercial Products

4 sizes, 8 models of electric smoker ovens used by restaurants, caterers, delicatessens, grocery stores, meat markets and small meat processors, among others; Cookshack Spicy Barbecue Sauce, Cookshack Mild Barbecue Sauce, Cookshack Spicy Barbecue Sauce Mix, RibRub, Spicy Chicken Rub, and Chili Mix; hickory, mesquite, apple, and cherry smoking woods; accessories include two cookbooks, Get Smokin' and Still Smokin'.

Fast Eddy's by Cookshack pits, 3 sizes and 5 models, including four rotisserie-action smokers.

All our commercial smoker ovens and pits are NSF approved and UL listed, most stainless steel models are USDA approved.

Home / Residential Products

Cookshack Smokette electric smoker ovens, Cookshack Series 50 electric smoker ovens, Cookshack Spicy Barbecue Sauce, RibRub, Spicy Chicken Rub, and Chili Mix; Smokin' At Home cookbook; hickory, mesquite, apple, and cherry smoking woods. All our home smoker ovens are UL listed.

The Fast Eddy's by Cookshack Model FEC100 is used by serious amateur barbecue'rs and competition cooks.

Cookshack's residential products are UL listed.

Primary Markets

Restaurants, caterers, delicatessens, grocery stores, meat markets and small meat processors, home users, competition cooks