Abstract: A barbecue system includes a housing including a plurality of monolithically formed side walls sized and shaped for defining a cooking cavity therebetween. The housing further includes a plurality of rigid support legs attached to a bottom one of the side walls. The support legs are outwardly canted at an oblique angle from the housing. The barbecue system further includes a mechanism for withdrawing heat and smoke from the cavity in such a manner that ambient air and ambient temperature within the enclosed environment can remain substantially smoke-free and heat-free during cooking operations and a mechanism for supplying heat into the cavity. A mechanism for disseminating an artificially-flavored air stream is also included. The disseminating mechanism is positioned vertically above the heat supplying mechanism and a cooking platform is registered above the disseminating mechanism.