I feel ashamed...are we real bbq ers?

Well,its been a bunch of years since I grew,cut,seasoned and split my own hickory.

Been a long time since diggin' a hole in red clay and limestone,lining it with limestone flat rock from the pasture,filling the bottom with creek sand.

Preburnin' down the hickory to coals/charcoal.

Raisin' my own hogs and beef,butcherin',and aging them.

Been decades since cubscout days of startin' the fire with flint,tender box,and wood shavin's.

Never did get the hang of evaporatin' salt water to get the salt I used.

Now I have raised the peppers and a bunch of the herbs,dried,ground,and made rubs from them.

I've raised the vegetables to cook down and make my sauces.

I have made my share of the adult beverages that are required to tend the fire.

Even with lots of practice and experience,I sometimes turned out lousy Q.

That don't seem to happen with a Cookshack,so maybe it ain't barbecue after all.

'course I don't seem to run into "real barbecuers",if that's what it takes,much anymore.

We're real bbqers, who happen to be a little lazy. We have great smokers that were brought about by wonderful, smart people. You can still do the hole in the ground thing Tom describes once in a while, if you feel guilty.

I think you and your guests will enjoy the end product from the Cookshack much better.

You're not getting it delivered to you in little plastic bags. You're doing your own recipes and making changes as you go.

You can do bbq as well as you want.

And you still get to have enough energy to chew it if it comes out a little tough!

Peggy

Tom, that was the BEST reply I have ever read. I need to memorize this so the next time someone tells me they can get real good bbq on their old gasser. Now just for fun, go back and read that post again but this time pretend you are Jack Nickolson. Or John Wayne.

Bob

lol, I was wondering if I could fire anyone up!

david

What a great response Tom!

Will Cookshack deliver BBQ in little plastic bags? That would be sooooooooo nice.

quote:

Originally posted by Todd G.:
[qb] Will Cookshack deliver BBQ in little plastic bags? That would be sooooooooo nice. [/qb]

Never!

Donna

PS Listen to Tom ...

David,

I think your question falls into the same category of "That depends on what is is." Wm J. Clinton circa 1998. If it looks like BBQ, smells like BBQ and taste better than most pit fire BBQs - it's BBQ.

smokemullet

Mullet is absolutely right, you have to ask yourself what real barbeque is.
I personally believe that it is more of a cooking method than anything else.
We're all familiar with the book "Smoke & Spice". The Jamison's sum it all up in a very simple sentence....Cooking foods with smoke from hardwood at low temps for a long enough time until you have cooked through the point of doneness.
AND YOU CANT DO IT ANY BETTER THAN YOU CAN WITH A CS.........at least I cant.
great post by the way, I really enjoyed your reply Tom...hope to meet you some day and hear some of those stories of yours.

Zeb did a great job in another thread, where he explained the process and art of producing BBQ. To some that is BBQ�the process and art. Spending all day tending the fire, enjoying the company of friends, etc. To others BBQ the end result�what you eat. If you want the latter but don�t have the skills, time, or inclination to master the former, then the Cookshack is the best vehicle to get you there.

ok after much thought (and against my better judgement) i am giving my idea on this topic.
are we real bbq er's?
heck yes we are!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
why do you think the KCBS and FBA won't allow the cs or sm models in competition!!!!! the answer (and by the way i belong to the fba,kcbs and nbbqa) is these models produce consistant and superior bbq on a day in day out basis. also if you keep notes you can fine tune the unit to match your cooking style by using the manual cook time and temp modes. i can exactly match in peg's sm150 what ever i do in my fec right down to smoke taste and bark and do it everytime!!!!
so yep i am are real bbqer but i learned on a brinkman 29 buck bullet and for about 25 years kept notes on that unit. when the good lord let us buy not only and fec but an sm to boot i just transferred the bullet notes as a starting point and in about 2 weeks i could make the fec sing and in about 2 more weeks i had peg's sm singing opera
sorry if i sounded strident but tom and me and zeb agree on one thing--IT AIN'T THE COOKER,IT'S THE COOK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
jack

If you can drink beer while doing it, then I say yes indeed we are.

As for those who compete, it's more of a skill contest and a social get-together. I've also witnessed corn husking contests but that doesn't mean that one is not a farmer if you they use a combine.

When I cooked for friends with my firebox unit, everybody thought I was an expert. I still haven't figured out how I'm going to snow people into believing that it takes a lot of skill to properly run a CS!