I follow several BBQ groups/product sites on Facebook and they make me appreciate the camaraderie and support in the Pit. On Facebook forums you find self-proclaimed arbiters of what is the "right" way to BBQ and the "true" BBQ style. So stupid. I appreciate how we share the advice, recommendations, and reviews with candor but respect. I appreciate that we celebrate all of the ways to grill, smoke, and every other BBQ method and styles from every region. I hope we never lose that!
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+1 I'm amazed by the width and breadth of the cooking talent here. Things I never would've thought to do, recipes I'd never would've attempted, and such informative posts, step by step, willingness to help, advice I didn't even know I needed, the list goes on!
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This is a GREAT Place to hang out! It's my Only social media.Comment
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It’s the difference between:
”This is how to cook, and here is the delicious food I made!”
And:
”This is the delicious food I made, and here is how I cooked it!”
The difference, while not immediately apparent, is not subtle. One focuses on process, the other on results. But process only exists to produce optimal results!
If it tastes good, then it is good. Make it taste good, then figure out why that worked. Amazing Ribs is a compendium of accumulated wisdom of how to make great tasting bbq. When something comes along that is better, it gets added to the encyclopedia and Amazing Ribs changes, and we all get better. And in a couple years, when that trickles down to other groups, they can use the new knowledge as a club on the new people.
People have been making delicious bbq for hundreds of thousands of years. Food changes, animals change, spices change, tastes change, trees change, fuels change, everything always changes. We change. One day I’ll cook when I’m relaxed, another day I’ll cook when I’m anxious. Even when we don’t change, we still change, because we get older. We accept that, and retain our ability to adapt to all these changes, including those changes to ourselves.
Smoke on, sisters and brothers. Smoke on.Comment
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I joined The Pit after some bad experiences on another BBQ forum. I was a bit gun shy but I joined for the free trial, read a lot of posts, and joined a few days after starting the free trial. There is more than one way to arrive at great BBQ and the people on this site know it. The other site was quick to criticize anyone who deviated from their idea of proper low and slow smoking.Comment
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I also like that we can direct people to prior posts and/or search prior posts to find information. The Facebook groups I belong to seem to ask the same questions over and over… and over again.Comment
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Just re-upped after my first year and it was a no brainer. This is a great resource for all things cooking, but, it is also a great resource for advice outside cooking.
I look at it like we are all neighbors and we share any helpful knowledge we might know in life with our friends.Comment
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I've found the Facebook experience to have become quite degraded from what it used to be. I just don't find it to be an enjoyable platform.
Even the group format is suboptimal. It encourages quick and "drive-by" commenting. It is cumbersome to revisit a thread and have a genuine back-and-forth discussion like we can have here.Comment
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Oddly, it's gotten a little better... still no where what it was, but for sure better than where it was heading around 2018 or so. Still use it for some family and friends and social stuff, thankfully the forced politics has mostly stopped and I only see it from some of my friends, which I can easily scroll past
But it's an absolute nightmare to use like a forum, and even harder to moderate a group like one.
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As a graduate of Le Cordon Bleu…I am clearly an arbiter of the “right” way to do things.
No really.
ROFL Yeah, can’t say that with straight face.
Yes, I did graduate from LCB…but I’m also smart enough to know that there are several ways that one might reach their destination. Most of which are rarely “wrong.” And those that might head down a “wrong” path are guided by people here with a true willingness to help…with compassion, understanding & knowledge…and without berating them. Something other forums have forgotten. This is the only forum that I participate in for those reasons. I put up with enough nonsense…I don’t need to add it in my free time.
I used to be a moderator on a guitar forum…and, like here, we kept it civil. Though, it seems, most people here start out civil in the first place…which makes it all the more enjoyable to spend time here.Comment
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Love this forum. It's been a great place to learn and get great ideas.Comment
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Man. I just left two popular Facebook groups because the atmosphere was toxic. People would ask simple questions and get reamed by jokesters, haters and people that just love to argue. I’m so glad for this group where I learn so much.Comment
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After avoiding it for years and years, I finally joined Facebook about 4 weeks ago. My impression is, there's a lot of people there, who start looking for a fight every morning when they wake up and before their feet hit the floor.
I've not missed much.
And I only joined so I could participate in Kosmos Secret Stash group.
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I have learned so much here. But this place is MUCH more than a cooking club. More like family.Comment
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