Hello from Down Under ;)

[Download]

So after months and months of wishful thinking, my absolutely amazing dad did the unthinkable. He got me a WSM for Christmas. He is a paragon amoungst men. A real champion of the people. A gem in a sandy dustbowl.

The thing you gotta understand about us Aussies, is that we love our BBQs. I mean, we LOVE them. But they're an entirely different beast to what you guys do (as I'm sure you'd all be well aware and horrified by *chuckle*). We fling some meat on a BBQ which is more often than not a gas BBQ as they're faster.
I've only just started my foray into smoking and am effectively a babe in the woods on the subject. Every thing I've learnt in a few short months has been thanks to this website so obviously I HAD to become a member. Fair is fair after all.

So far I've smoked a couple of MASSIVE ribs (way over-smoked, I should say, but they would have been epic if I'd had a decent sauce to calm that down a bit), a chicken which was under-smoked in my opinion but hubby and dad thought it was great, and I've just done two racks of jalapenos to make our own chipotle sauce as it's nigh on impossible to get anything with chipotle in it down here.

I'm in awe at how simple the process itself is, and having the help from you wonderful people whether you knew it or not at the time has made a 'oh gods, where do I start?' turn into 'oh gods, how do I ever STOP?!!'. But that's a problem for tomorrow me .

[DWCowles]

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[fuzzydaddy]

Welcome to the Pit Download.

[Danjohnston949]

Download, Welcome to the Pit! Your Dad has to be one Hell'ava Guy or he likes BBQ and You know how to cook? Either Way You Both Win! Our Son just came back from New Zeeland before Christmas! Business and all that! I included a current temperature and Wx screen shot for FARGO ND. TEMP IS FAHRENHEIT. EAT WELL AND PROSPER! HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL DOWN UNDER! 👍🍻🍗🍻👍 From Fargo ND USA, Dan

[Jon Solberg]

Hey Download! Welcome.

Be sure to stop by the bullet smoker thread and share some pictures of that WSM in action!

https://pitmaster.amazingribs.com/forum/grills-and-smokers/charcoal/bullet-smokers

[jholmgren]

Welcome Download !
From what I've gathered the Aussies are more into "grilling" (hot/fast) as opposed to BBQ (low/slow).
Nothing wrong with either one and to be able to produce both at-will? ... that's just nirvana.

[BigBear]

Welcome to The Pit Download . We're glad you're here and look forward to your future posts!

[LA Pork Butt]

Welcome to the Pit! Happy smoking!

[Spinaker]

Welcome to the Pit!! WE are glad that your here. We's like to see some pictures of that new rig if possible. Download

[m.mayo]

Welcome to the Pit. This site has some great recipes and ideas. Good luck and best wishes from the wet coast of Canada!

[ribeyeguy]

Welcome to the Pit! From what I understand Australia has a Wagyu beef industry that is second to none. Have you ever tried any of it?

[Huskee]

Welcome to The Pit Download! Great having you here and meeting new friends all over the world with a common interest. Thanks for your support here!

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Hope to hear & see more from you!

[SaturdayShoppe]

Hello Download ! What is the climate like?

[Download]

Thanks for the warm welcome folks!

jholmgren - You're absolutely right. BBQ here is generally a spur of the moment "The weather is great, let's flame things!' type cook here. Smoking and slow cooking is slowly becoming more popular, but no one really wants to stand around a hot cooker in hot weather so it's taking a little. Once we become enamoured with something (Asian food, case in point!) there's no stopping us though

ribeyeguy - Indeed, the Waygu beef down here is something that our beef industry is very proud of. I personally haven't tried it, because I have two friends who are butchers who both insist that it's not worth the cost as a great piece of Angus or Murray Grey will tie for enjoyment factor, and if you stud it with fat from the cut it will soften in much the same manner.
I've cooked my steak that way ever since their recommendation and have loved it, so I've never bothered with Waygu. Perhaps I'm just to cheap *chortle*.

SaturdayShoppe - The climate is... Phwar. The short answer is that it depends on where you live. But I feel that the main differences between our climates is that summer tends to be hotter for longer on average than you guys get, and winters a bit milder and not quite as long. Most major cities rarely, if ever see snow.
But my American friends at work assure me that there are states that have very similar weather to what we experience here. It's just that we tend to be warmer for longer.
The exception would be for Darwin, which I've been told only Louisiana can compete with the 'swimming through the air rather than walking through it' heat and humidity that Darwin tends to have almost year round. They do regularly spend most of their summers up around the 105f-ish kind of range.
And even then in Darwin if it's rainy season as the locals call it, you're still gonna be swimming to get around *chuckle*.

[Download]

Download, Welcome to the Pit! Your Dad has to be one Hell'ava Guy or he likes BBQ and You know how to cook? Either Way You Both Win!

To be honest I suspect that it's just because I kept whinging at him to build me a smoker (he's a Blacksmith by trade) and he decided it was easier to get one for me instead *chortle*.