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I had been waiting to buy an Old Country Pecos or Brazos for a while now, just couldn't make up my mind if it was worth spending the extra money or not, but then yesterday on FB market place, this little fella popped up and I couldn't pass up the deal. After haggling her down, I ended up getting...

Hey everyone Jake, AKA SmokeyZassOff here. My dad, 45fan, has been on here for sometime now and has referred me to this site because I have recently purchased my first smoker. I went out to Pits N Grills located here in Springfield, MO and got me a Weber Smokey Mountain (bullet smoker). I...

Hey everybody, I was given a hand me down smoker from an uncle, its just a standard electric tower type of smoker, cant remember the brand. But, anyways...i have NEVER smoked anything in my life and i volunteered to bring an EXTRA smoked turkey for lunch. I need all the help i can get! Dont even...

All, I'm one of those guys that run by the adage "try to learn something new every day", and I haven't found anything today :-D So....I don't pretend to understand all of the nuances of my UDS, but I have run into an, well I guess I'll call it an issue: For most of the meat that I've done, smoke...

Hello everybody, my name is Benny. About three years ago, I finally gave up on getting my (otherwise very nice) gas Weber to cook ribs properly and looked on Craigslist for a cheap smoker to achieve this "low and slow" method of cooking I'd heard so much about. I found a beat up old bullet...

Hi guys, just wanted to introduce myself. My name's Darryl and I've been smoking on a WSM 18 for the last few years. A buddy of mine bought one a while back and showed me that he could do BBQ that was worlds better than any restaurant, so I just had to get myself one. My amazing wife bought me...

Hi everybody! I recently had an old imperial kamado basically fall into my lap, oof. I had to look it up to see what it even was, but after doing some research I've decided to try and fix it up. I found this forum after some searching and saw that there were some restoration projects and...

Hi all. I've lurked for a while after I found the site while looking for info on building a UDS. I used the information I found to build a smoker that has so far turned out some great BBQ. My wife tells me it's better than some of the commercial Q she's had (and we have some pretty awesome BBQ...

It started on a cold Wyoming morning, I had spent half the night watching bbq videos on youtube the night before. As I awoke mouth watering I knew I was going to try my hand at smoking. I head down to the local store, get my self two beautiful racks of ribs, some nice smoking wood and a bag of...

Hi all! Checking in, looks like a great place. I have a lot of stuff to catch up on! Avid BBQ guy with my father's Weber grill. I've replaced the charcoal grid and the food grid multiple times and it is good to go again. Are their names for those grids? It'll be a sad day for me when I have to...

So, I got for father's day two years ago a little Char-Broil Big Easy gas grill/smoker/rotisserie. I got some decent smoke out of it, but what a bloody pain to put more wood into it!! I am looking to get into an offset smoker. My wife (aka HH6) has put a provision on me buying one. It needs to...

Hello All! My name is John. I am a Leo. I like long walks on the beach. I hit rock bottom when I dipped into my children's college savings to buy a Weber Performer.

Hi All, Thanks for all your contributions to this site. I got on here about a year back and learned how to make a UDS but didn't make any introduction at cattle call. I have cooked alot since youth and even stints in a few top notch commercial kitckens, but until I found this site I didn't...