About us
We're Nic and Helena, the husband-and-wife team behind Meat Smoke Fire, the home of Big Green Egg. We're a small, family-run business based at our home in Histon, Cambridge, and we're users of everything we sell, every day.
We believe anyone can master live-fire cooking with the right teaching. It isn't complicated, and we've spent more than a decade proving it, first in people's gardens, then in our own cookery school, and now live online.
From Big Green Egg to Meat Smoke Fire
Before Meat Smoke Fire, Nic worked for Big Green Egg for several years. As well as recruiting and supporting their resellers, he demonstrated the Egg at events including:
- Meatopia
- Taste of London
- Chelsea Flower Show
- Pub in the Park
- The Royal Norfolk Show
- and many other regional shows and dealer events
Nic and Helena then turned that experience into Meat Smoke Fire. Today we're a Big Green Egg Associate Dealer, helping customers in Cambridge and right across the UK.
Our Live Cooks
On Easter Saturday 2020, during the first lockdown, Big Green Egg asked Nic to cook a leg of lamb live on Instagram. Over 700 people were watching at once, and plenty of them recognised Nic from Meat Smoke Fire.
So we started our own Live Cooks. We cooked live every week through lockdown, and those cooks helped Meat Smoke Fire grow quickly. We still cook live today, every two to three weeks.
We go live on Saturdays at 11:30am on Instagram. We usually cook three dishes in around 45 minutes, and every cook goes up on Instagram and YouTube afterwards. There are 165 to watch on YouTube, and most of the recipes are written up here on the website. They're all free.
We're the only Big Green Egg reseller regularly cooking live online.
Our cookery school, 2015 to 2026
We started running Big Green Egg classes in 2015, because no one else was. At first Nic travelled to customers' homes and taught them on their own Egg, in their own garden.
In 2019 we opened the UK's first Big Green Egg cookery school, at our home in Histon. Classes were small, usually six people, and hands-on. Almost every class we ran sold out, and many of the people we welcomed into our home have become friends.
Our most popular class covered everything you need to know about your Egg: loading and lighting, controlling the temperature, and then searing, roasting, smoking, baking, rotisserie, pan cooking and indirect cooking. We also taught curry to the team from Big Green Egg Netherlands, ran Thai classes with Nick Rourke from KAB, and hosted two guest classes with Richard Sayce, author of Curry Compendium.
Our last class ran in June 2026. We've paused classes for now to focus on our Live Cooks and our shop. Everything we taught carries on through the Live Cooks, our recipes, and the advice we give every customer.
Our shop
The Big Green Egg is a considered purchase, so the advice matters. Most other resellers don't have our cooking experience. When you buy from us, you get advice from people who cook on the Egg every week. We'll ask how you plan to cook, then help you choose the right size, base and accessories. We'll always tell you to start small.
Around the Egg, we've chosen a range of products we use ourselves, including Big4Space outdoor kitchens, Höfats fire pits and table heaters, Skotti portable grills, OFYR and HORL knife sharpeners. If a product doesn't meet our standards, we won't sell it.
We're also the only UK supplier and distributor of LetzQ, which we import from the Netherlands. The range includes the LetzQ Spit rotisserie for every size of Egg.
Our community
Giving back has always been part of how we work.
Our recipe library is full of dishes a home cook can actually make, all cooked and tested on the Egg by us. Most of the recipes come from our Live Cooks, so you can watch us cook them too.
Nic is also an admin of Big Green Egg BBQers UK, the UK's largest Big Green Egg forum. He was asked to join the admin team because of how much he'd contributed.
Come and talk to us
Whether you're choosing your first Egg or adding to your set-up, we're happy to help. Call us on 07446 960303, or visit us in Histon by appointment.
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