I can't remember exactly when I started using AmazingRibs.com, but it wasn't because of the cooking advice. It was an article Meathead had written for the HuffPost about booze. Reading that article, I immediately knew he was my kind of person. Until then I had been using a cheap offset smoker (by then the offset part was used as storage, and I used the smoker as a big indirect oven, with charcoal or wood on one side, and the food on the other). I still have that smoker at my camp, and use it when I am there, but at home, I went on to use a cheap propane grill which I converted to NG. My first real issue with it came up when I smoked a turkey, and found the bottom quarter to be practically raw because of the poor heat retention in the lower section of the grill. My attempts at gravy under the turkey where laughable because all those drippings were sitting in lukewarm water. I had company, so I served the top half of the bird (which had reached a safe temp). The next day, I started looking for a new BBQ. My mother was about to move, so she gave me her old BroilKing Signet 20. A fantastic NG BBQ, which I still use, but too small for smoking more than a couple racks of ribs. I am now using a Napoleon Apollo 300, which is similar to a WSM. I mostly smoke brisket, though the pendulum seems to be swinging back to pork for me. I am trying to integrate sous vide cooking into my smoking.
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Welcome Freethread, great story! I have a poll here which asks how we all heard about Meathead and AmazingRibs. I'm not sure anyone has mentioned his other works yet. I too go back & forth between beef & pork on the smoker (ok and chicken too). I cant' decide which I like best, every time I make something I like it best, whichever it is.
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Welcome and thanks for the support!!!
I converted my cheap offset to propane and it will be pretty much a designated sausage smoker.
The Pit Barrel is my go to 110% of the time (I cook in my sleep), except will grilling burgers and hot dogs.
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