Been lurking the frontpage for a number of years, finally started hunkering down this year and buying all the GOLD Medal gadgets and felt it was time to pay my respects to the gang that helped up my Grill Game. I really wished you guys had a donate button as initially I didn't want to join, but hell forcing me to interact with other flame and smoke enthusiast may do me some good! So thank you to the Men & Women behind the site.
I hail from the East Coast and Uncle Sam brought me out West and several years in the traveling game the family decided to plant roots in Arizona. So here I am, at times I'm an professional hobbyist that is eagerly looking to find the best gear I can get my grimy lil paws on, but usually not before I've spent some years doing it the "hard" way to develop an appreciation for the craft. To the gun & ammo guys and gals in the crowd as a point of reference for my methodical ways, I'll say I spent about 6 years on an Single Stage Rock Chucker making bullets one by one before I bought a Dillon and it's not auto-indexing because I'm that much of an Anal Retentive prick at times and like to take my time. I'm a gun guy, ammo guy, scotch & whisky/whiskey guy, cigar guy, food guy, and I pretend to be a car guy every so often and do some performance mods on the F30 with supervision from friends far more engine inclined than I.
Onto the meat & potatoes- started on the cheaply made grill baskets you see out at parks at my apartment complex about 3 years ago, it was in direct sunlight dirty as sin and required me to lug all the charcoal and dreaded lighter fluid outside my apartment and down some steps. No good. Fast forward 3 years no longer into Apartment living, I'm the proud owner of Weber 22.5 Kettle with the coal baskets, I've since rid myself of the lighter fluid and have an Chimney. I just recently took a trip out Scottsdale and purchased some cooking wood in addition to being now 45 days into the Traeger Elite Jr with just a slight Nomex Mod. So now I'm into Pellet, Charcoal and Chunk. Grilling and smoking has taken on an whole new meaning and it's slowly becoming an additional food item that's being requested of me at friend get togethers.
I'll likely be reading in the shadows trying to find a butcher so I can get more variety then what my neighborhood Sprouts has, thanks for reading and making this site so insightful!
I hail from the East Coast and Uncle Sam brought me out West and several years in the traveling game the family decided to plant roots in Arizona. So here I am, at times I'm an professional hobbyist that is eagerly looking to find the best gear I can get my grimy lil paws on, but usually not before I've spent some years doing it the "hard" way to develop an appreciation for the craft. To the gun & ammo guys and gals in the crowd as a point of reference for my methodical ways, I'll say I spent about 6 years on an Single Stage Rock Chucker making bullets one by one before I bought a Dillon and it's not auto-indexing because I'm that much of an Anal Retentive prick at times and like to take my time. I'm a gun guy, ammo guy, scotch & whisky/whiskey guy, cigar guy, food guy, and I pretend to be a car guy every so often and do some performance mods on the F30 with supervision from friends far more engine inclined than I.
Onto the meat & potatoes- started on the cheaply made grill baskets you see out at parks at my apartment complex about 3 years ago, it was in direct sunlight dirty as sin and required me to lug all the charcoal and dreaded lighter fluid outside my apartment and down some steps. No good. Fast forward 3 years no longer into Apartment living, I'm the proud owner of Weber 22.5 Kettle with the coal baskets, I've since rid myself of the lighter fluid and have an Chimney. I just recently took a trip out Scottsdale and purchased some cooking wood in addition to being now 45 days into the Traeger Elite Jr with just a slight Nomex Mod. So now I'm into Pellet, Charcoal and Chunk. Grilling and smoking has taken on an whole new meaning and it's slowly becoming an additional food item that's being requested of me at friend get togethers.
I'll likely be reading in the shadows trying to find a butcher so I can get more variety then what my neighborhood Sprouts has, thanks for reading and making this site so insightful!
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