Before Mike Baker opened Salt Creek BBQ in Iraan with his wife, Katherine, in 2023, he did his barbecue research on the road. Baker was a tow truck driver covering a wide swath of West Texas and beyond. “We went all over the States, and I would stop at barbecue places,” he said. Sure, there were plenty of local towing needs, but the idea of “local” is stretched out on the hundred-mile span of Interstate 10 between Ozona and Fort Stockton.“As long as it has wheels on it, you can tow it,” Baker said, and he would haul anything that rolled as far as the customer wanted. He remembers a call from a man frustrated with his rickety boat trailer near Sonora, ninety miles east…
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