DaveAlvarado
is Blowin Smoke!
- Joined
- Dec 23, 2013
- Location
- DFW, TX
I'm a little stumped going back and forth about what I want for cookers. By "cookers" I mean both a smoker and a grill. Let me lay it out for you.
Right now I own two 22" WSMs and a Weber Performer Platinum.
My typical smoker cook ends up being about the amount of meat needed for a full competition. For example my last smoke for friends was a brisket, two butts, three racks of St. Louis spares, four pork sirloin tip roasts, and a couple whole chickens. That completely loaded down the WSMs, and it would have been nice if there was a bit of extra room for snacks like ABTs, some sausage, etc. I also hate tending two fires, it's a bunch more work.
My typical grilling cook is meat for a family for a week. For example my last grilling cook was 4 sirloins, 4 large chicken breasts, a pork tenderloin, and a bunch of veggies. I end up having to cook these in shifts on the grill, which annoys me because I want everything to be done at the same time to lay out smorgasbord-style for people to pick and choose, then package up all the leftovers to eat for the week.
So that's the sort of cooking I do at home. Capacity-wise, I could put an order in to Lone Star Grillz for one of their monster insulated cabinet smokers and one of their 24x48 charcoal grills, and I'd be set for home.
Now here's the problem--every once in a while, it would be nice to take the show on the road. Cookouts with friends at the lake, cooking for camping trips, cooking for co-workers in the parking lot at work, maybe the occasional competition. A trailer-mounted setup would be great for this, obviously. But, I don't want to cook in my driveway all the time. The door to my patio is right off the kitchen, so backyard cooking is super convenient for me. Going back and forth through the house to cook out front would be a pain. There's also unfortunately no good way to move a trailer from the back to the front--my house is on a corner, and there's a pretty steep hill along the side of my back yard where a trailer would have to go to get through the gate. Plus there's a "no visible trailers in the back yard" neighborhood association rule, and you can see my patio easily from the street.
Anybody have any ideas? What would you do in my shoes? I'm willing to entertain offers as cheap or expensive as you want to go, right now I'm working on the wish list.
Right now I own two 22" WSMs and a Weber Performer Platinum.
My typical smoker cook ends up being about the amount of meat needed for a full competition. For example my last smoke for friends was a brisket, two butts, three racks of St. Louis spares, four pork sirloin tip roasts, and a couple whole chickens. That completely loaded down the WSMs, and it would have been nice if there was a bit of extra room for snacks like ABTs, some sausage, etc. I also hate tending two fires, it's a bunch more work.
My typical grilling cook is meat for a family for a week. For example my last grilling cook was 4 sirloins, 4 large chicken breasts, a pork tenderloin, and a bunch of veggies. I end up having to cook these in shifts on the grill, which annoys me because I want everything to be done at the same time to lay out smorgasbord-style for people to pick and choose, then package up all the leftovers to eat for the week.
So that's the sort of cooking I do at home. Capacity-wise, I could put an order in to Lone Star Grillz for one of their monster insulated cabinet smokers and one of their 24x48 charcoal grills, and I'd be set for home.
Now here's the problem--every once in a while, it would be nice to take the show on the road. Cookouts with friends at the lake, cooking for camping trips, cooking for co-workers in the parking lot at work, maybe the occasional competition. A trailer-mounted setup would be great for this, obviously. But, I don't want to cook in my driveway all the time. The door to my patio is right off the kitchen, so backyard cooking is super convenient for me. Going back and forth through the house to cook out front would be a pain. There's also unfortunately no good way to move a trailer from the back to the front--my house is on a corner, and there's a pretty steep hill along the side of my back yard where a trailer would have to go to get through the gate. Plus there's a "no visible trailers in the back yard" neighborhood association rule, and you can see my patio easily from the street.
Anybody have any ideas? What would you do in my shoes? I'm willing to entertain offers as cheap or expensive as you want to go, right now I'm working on the wish list.
