Now that CS has introduced their new charbroiler, and I'm guessing they'll carry the Fast Eddy pellet grill too at some point, does this mean that the forum will now be a Smokin' & Grillin forum?
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Well,not that we would copy Ray Basso,in how he runs his personal web page,that includes the BBQ Forum,but over there we found it somewhat confusing,so Ray made a subforum,with it's own heading.
The Grilling Forum.
It seemed too easy for threads to run off in multiple directions,and folks would have confusion over which they were answering.
Just a guess that Smokin',Stuart,Donna and all might make a similar choice.
The Grilling Forum.
It seemed too easy for threads to run off in multiple directions,and folks would have confusion over which they were answering.
Just a guess that Smokin',Stuart,Donna and all might make a similar choice.
I'm just thinking that if I got me one of those charbroiler things, I could maybe put a pot on top and boil some water or maybe even heat up a pot of oil, and then I could be steamin' or fryin'. I can be multi-talented sometimes. Then things could get completely out of hand. It'd be like herding cats for Smokin' to keep us in line then. 
Well Todd,as silly as it may seem to "normal" folks,on the comp circuit,there are endless arguments and more rules written by bureaucrats.
Evidence ,rule #15 today,that if your ribs are sliced very neatly,that some blind man can't tell they are not one slab,you are disqualified from the comp.
If you must cook on wood,or charcoal,is heating your basting sauce in a pan, on the firebox,illegal boiling?
If foiling your butts,are you braising?
What about braising ribs?
If you tossed your cooked chicken thighs in a foil pan,tented the pan,and set them in a cool spot of the cooker,to stay warm until turnin time,are you illegally braising the product.
What about below 200*,or above 200*?
Now,it used to be that a bunch of good old boys,could meet in somebody's back pasture and cook stuff.
For $25 you got some ice,a portapotty,garbage pickup,and some placemats and paper towels for some folks to come over from the feed/hardware store and judge.
Now,for $400,we get the same thing,except some street corner lawyers write us some rules.
With twenty of us there,we could figure out who "boiled" their Q,or brought it from the crockpot and freezer at home.
Or,bought it in a plastic pail from Food Lion.
If you put anything in a foil pan,on your cooker,are you simmering?
Could them good old boys from the feed/hardware store figure out good Q from bad,before?
Do they now know better,where they screwed up eating,before they knew the rules?
Inquiring minds want to know.
If there is a higher power, out near the pits,please protect us from them folks,what want to protect us Q eaters from our ownself.
Evidence ,rule #15 today,that if your ribs are sliced very neatly,that some blind man can't tell they are not one slab,you are disqualified from the comp.
If you must cook on wood,or charcoal,is heating your basting sauce in a pan, on the firebox,illegal boiling?
If foiling your butts,are you braising?
What about braising ribs?
If you tossed your cooked chicken thighs in a foil pan,tented the pan,and set them in a cool spot of the cooker,to stay warm until turnin time,are you illegally braising the product.
What about below 200*,or above 200*?
Now,it used to be that a bunch of good old boys,could meet in somebody's back pasture and cook stuff.
For $25 you got some ice,a portapotty,garbage pickup,and some placemats and paper towels for some folks to come over from the feed/hardware store and judge.
Now,for $400,we get the same thing,except some street corner lawyers write us some rules.
With twenty of us there,we could figure out who "boiled" their Q,or brought it from the crockpot and freezer at home.
Or,bought it in a plastic pail from Food Lion.
If you put anything in a foil pan,on your cooker,are you simmering?
Could them good old boys from the feed/hardware store figure out good Q from bad,before?
Do they now know better,where they screwed up eating,before they knew the rules?
Inquiring minds want to know.
If there is a higher power, out near the pits,please protect us from them folks,what want to protect us Q eaters from our ownself.
I too, long for simpler times.
I had a birthday yesterday, and I realized that I'm old enough to remember when a dollar was worth 100 cents, when English was our national language and nobody had to ask for an amendment saying so, and when burning oak and hickory slats down to coals to cook with was enjoyed by all.
George Will said a few weeks ago that America used to be a nation where the person that could get things done was admired. Now we are a nation where a person that can keep things from getting done is admired.
As goes America, so goes BBQ.
I had a birthday yesterday, and I realized that I'm old enough to remember when a dollar was worth 100 cents, when English was our national language and nobody had to ask for an amendment saying so, and when burning oak and hickory slats down to coals to cook with was enjoyed by all.
George Will said a few weeks ago that America used to be a nation where the person that could get things done was admired. Now we are a nation where a person that can keep things from getting done is admired.
As goes America, so goes BBQ.
Comp cooking sounds like ski jumping. You could jump 50 feet further than anyone else, but you don't get that perfect landing? You still lose. Huh? Me Dad said that's like the person winning the 100 meters loses cause another guy's got nicer shoes.
Bottom line, who ever makes the best food should be the winner. If some dude (the baddest man in the whole damned town BTW) shows up with a smoker made out of a trash can, every sauce and rub store bought, makes the best stuff, they win.
What's wrong with braising if it makes the food better?
Bottom line, who ever makes the best food should be the winner. If some dude (the baddest man in the whole damned town BTW) shows up with a smoker made out of a trash can, every sauce and rub store bought, makes the best stuff, they win.
What's wrong with braising if it makes the food better?
Funny how cooks got together,drank beer,and swapped lies and was good enough friends to get together on a regular basis.
Then, somehow non-cooks came up with rules ,we could understand.
Now we argue,and give up cookin'.
Oh well,they haven't taken away the beer and swappin' lies-have they?
Yep,if George wants to see it is still here,come on back to the South,where we still carry our knives,and guns,and know BBQ is an institution-and they'll have to pry all three from our cold,dead hands.
Then, somehow non-cooks came up with rules ,we could understand.
Now we argue,and give up cookin'.
Oh well,they haven't taken away the beer and swappin' lies-have they?
Yep,if George wants to see it is still here,come on back to the South,where we still carry our knives,and guns,and know BBQ is an institution-and they'll have to pry all three from our cold,dead hands.