Greetings From The Motor City

[LA Pork Butt]

Welcome to the Pit from Dallas!

[Evil Swine BBQ]

After years of coming to Amazingribs.com for product reviews, recipes and advice, I finally joined the pitmaster club.

I'm a backyard cook that has learned throgj self teaching, learning the science and techniques through Amazingribs.com and a whole lot of trial and error.

I started knowing absolutely nothing about BBQ other then my time in the service where I frequently ate it while down south. After one bite I was hooked and I had to learn how to make great BBQ.

Fast forward 25 years to today and I now make my own spice rubs and make several homemade BBQ sauce flavors. All in all, I feel like I make pretty good BBQ... For a Yankee lol.

My biggest flaw is I do not own a high-end cooker so I have a heck of a time with fire managment and I go through a lot more wood than most. I have my eye on 24x48 Lone Star Grill and plan on adding some bells and whistles but it is a pretty big expense but I've been saving up. I was close to getting it but my wife got sick and a year of cancer treatment and a major surgery racked up a hefty set of medical bills...not to mention the fear of losing the love of my life. I'm happy to report she has made a full recovery and all is well. I'll gladly keep cooking for her on my cheap offset haha. I love good BBQ but there's no point if you can't share it with the one you love, right?

Things are much better now and I started the fund saving for my dream pit once again. I look forward to getting to know you guys and learning and sharing our success... And even our BBQ failures.