Y'all, from the Gateway to The Great Smokey Mountains

[Rjason]

I love food. If you want delicious food everyday you have no choice but to learn how to cook. So, always looking for new methods and advice. Cooking outside is more fun than inside so joining the Club to increase the fun. My work took me to every continent in the world and I found that cooking over fire is a universal love and passion. I am just the opposite of those that argue that only low and slow or only ......... fill in the blank............is the way to cook outdoors. I favor "fusion", mix and match ingredients and methods from around the world. I like smoke flavor as much as anyone but, it is only one type of seasoning and not always necessary. Whole hog buried in the ground does not require smoke and a feast sitting on the ground in Fiji is just as delicious and fun as any pig picking in my local mountains. Smoke can actually ruin some recipes by overpowering some herbal flavorings. That means sometimes a gas grill is the best cooker for a certain recipe. Because of that, I have a gas grill and rotisserie, a ceramic cooker, a pellet smoker, and a large outdoor fireplace with a hearth large enough to use for cast iron cooking. So, that is my brief introduction of myself.

[Alan Brice]

Welcome from Cincy Ohio! So, which one are you? And where are you from?? Saint Loowee?
Fine lookin pit ya got.

[Rjason]

I'm the good looking fatter one. Spent most of my life in S. CA and HI, now living in NC. This was my backyard in New Bern, NC. Now I live up in the Smokey Mtns. of NC

[RonB]

Welcome to The Pit.

[SheilaAnn]

Hey hey from Da LBC!

[Allon]

Welcome to
THE PIT
From Central Massachusetts

[dpearce]

Welcome Rjason to the Pit from central Ohio! You'll find plenty of friendly and like-minded folks here, as well as great recipes and advice (if needed). Look forward to pictures of your cooks!

[Draznnl]

Welcome to the Pit from the Florida Suncoast.

I look forward to reading and seeing pics of your cooking and your cooker set up.

[RiverJeff]

Welcome from Nebraska!

[WI Bubba]

Welcome from Wisconsin. Glad you could join us!

[jfmorris]

Welcome to the Pit from Alabama! Glad to have you onboard!

[bbqLuv]

Hello from NW Oregon the birthplace of the pellet grill.

Glad to have you on board.

[Purc]

Welcome to The Pit from Texas. I have backpacked and fly fished all over the Smoky Mountains. You live in a beautiful place.

[rmeugene]

Welcome from the NW burbs of Chicago.

[mcook2201]

Greetings and welcome to the Pit from North Carolina.

[Skip]

Welcome from Minnesota.