Do you Que year round?

[dapittboss]

As the days are starting to get cooler I was just wondering. Since I live in So Cal it never really gets very cold so Quing year round for me isn't anything to brag about. You guys in the colder states are another story. Anybody Que in really bad weather? I'm sure there must be some good stories...

[CarbonToe]

I BBQ all year.

The last memorable weather related BBQ was in Jan where my other half and I had the bright idea of wheeling the Weber onto the beach for a Q and it started snowing!!!

[qman]

I que all year too. Actually living in Florida, I consider the Fall and Winter the prime outdoor cooking times. If we have a struggle bbq-ing, it is the heat, humidity, and rain-and-thunderstorms of summer. Tending a fire all in 90+ temps with 90 percent humidity and a thunderstorm threatening can be a challenge. But we do it.

[Trout_man22]

All year long, unless the rain in pouring down :sad:

[Ron_L]

You betcha! I grill and Q all year. I keep a shovel on the deck so that I can clear a path to my equipment if needed! One of our long time traditions is turkey cooked outside on News Year Day! Last year I cooked a butt in my Cookshack for a party and the outside temp dropped to -5F. Using the Cookshack in winter is almost like cheating since I don't have to tend a fire...

[icemn62]

Living in the same area as you, I never think about weather when I am getting ready to que. What is bad weather? Sunny SoCal is good for something.

[smokeypig]

while i enjoy q'ing in the spring, summer and fall, i've been known to fire up the diamond in the winter a few times as well. 'course, in north georgia, winters ain't as bad as some of the other locales you fine folks hail from. the main thing i have to contend with is cold winter rain and wind.

the worst winter session i had was being forced to move the smoker into my garage at 3:30 in the morning when a wind, rain and sleet event began with no warning and i was about 1/2 way through the cooking. had to wake the better half up to help me move it. she wasn't very happy. and as a consequence, neither was I!

[ggeilman]

I didn't used to, but with the new dera I probably will. Winter? What is that?

[VitaminQ]

I've only been cooking real Q for a few months now, but I can't see myself slowing down because if a little weather. I've grilled at least once in every calendar month for the last two years. Of course, Oklahoma winters aren't particularly nasty, all things considered.

[chargriller]

When I first started trying to Q something I started in Jan cold as heck here in the midwest, I only had a kettle grill at the time cooking off set with water pan under my pork butt, that was a lot of fun, now I will be trying to do more all winter long.

I also love the cooler weather when trying to smoke something just seems easier and it feels like I am sitting arround the camp fire.

[rbsnwngs]

I grill and smoke all year round I'm like a mailman no weather will keep me from my Q

[Jeff_in_KC]

All year here too. I didn't get my SKD until the first week of February and I remember freezing my pork butt off seasoning the thing and putting on my first few chunks of meat! But I have grilled all winter so no doubt I'll be smoking in winter. Maybe not every weekend like now but I'll be doing it regardless of weather.

[willkat98]

I barbecue hot dogs and burgers once a year on 4th of July

[spicewine]

Hell Yes!!! 112 in the shade to 10 below 0!! I'm there!!!

Bill good luck with those burgers and Dogs!

[Jeff_in_KC]

Hell Yes!!! 112 in the shade to 10 below 0!! I'm there!!!

Bill good luck with those burgers and Dogs!

Chit, Jay, inside those smokers YOU build, the meat and coals have no idea if it's 112 or 10 below outside! The inside temps gotta be about as consistent as caves year around! :lol: Never any doubt you'd be cookin' year around!

[BrooklynQ]

all year here too

[parrothead]

All stinkin year

[rbinms33]

All year round....little rain doesn't bother me, last time I checked I wasn't made of sugar and I sure won't melt from it. I do draw the line at hail though.....LOL.

[jt]

All year. I put a beach umbrella over the smoker once - left it up til it fell apart. :-D

[Mark]

Hell Yes!!! 112 in the shade to 10 below 0!! I'm there!!!

Bill good luck with those burgers and Dogs!

Hey Spicewine: I think you just came up with an avatar that dapitboss wouldn't want to hit. It even makes me sick. Congratulations.

Back on subject: My BD is kept on a concrete porch under with a deck over it. By rigging a few tarps, it doesn't matter what the "outside" temperature is. I've done fine at below zero F.

And you don't have to worry about your beer getting warm.

If its very wind though, all bets are off

[Trout_man22]

I barbecue hot dogs and burgers once a year on 4th of July And you never post here either. Bill you have given me some of the best Q advice and I need to say thanks

[brdbbq]

All Year

[Aeynghus]

All year, but agree with qman, the seasons OTHER than summer are the best times to que in Florida.

[Arlin_MacRae]

All year, but agree with qman, the seasons OTHER than summer are the best times to que in Florida.

Like, what other seasons does Florida HAVE?

And hell yes - all year long, baby.

[qman]

I'll have ya'll know we suffer greatly here from severe winters. It usually hits sometime in January, and lasts as long as 2 days.
We have had snow in Orlando 3 times just in the last 25 years, so don't think we got it so easy:-P :mrgreen: :-P

[tigger]

Yep....all year, the summer is the most difficult since the cooker is at 145 without adding a fire.

[spicewine]

I think you just came up with an avatar that dapitboss wouldn't want to hit. [/QUOTE]


Don't Bet on that!!!

[cookswithfire]

I go all year but the quality is better when you can hang out close too your pit.In the summer I face it towards the big picture window so I can check temps. from the safety of my AC tempered Den.I need to come up with a way to add wood without
leaving the house.

[Neil]

Year round. That's why I have two snow blowers and three snow shovels. Lake effect mod. At the new digs I now have wind protection from the north. If I'm home, I'm Q'ing. Can't get bitched at for making a mess in the kitchen if I'm cooking outside!

[icemn62]

I'll have ya'll know we suffer greatly here from severe winters. It usually hits sometime in January, and lasts as long as 2 days.
We have had snow in Orlando 3 times just in the last 25 years, so don't think we got it so easy:-P :mrgreen: :-P

We must contact FEMA for you poor weather stricken people. And here I am complaining about 74 degree temps today. Almost grabbed my jacket this AM.

[Arlin_MacRae]

Dude, it's 70° here right now. LOVE IT!

[ggeilman]

Dude, it's 70° here right now. LOVE IT!


95 and rising here fast:cry:

[fivelombardis]

Yep! Down here in Texas, we have Summer for 9 months, Fall for 2, and Winter for 1!

[willkat98]

I love winter.

Your cold? Add another layer.

But you can only shed so many layers in the summer before you get locked up (happened to me, twice!)

By the end of the winter, all my layers of outdoor clothing smell like hickory. By the end of summer, all my underwear does

[qman]

We must contact FEMA for you poor weather stricken people. And here I am complaining about 74 degree temps today. Almost grabbed my jacket this AM.

Thanks, Ice, it's good to know that there is someone in touch with their "sensitive side" who can feel our pain down here in the deep deep south.
BTW, I love your new avatar:-D

[racer_81]

alllllllll year long..

[roknrandy]

All year round but back off some in the summer (too hot and humid for me)

[frognot]

Pretty much year round here.

[rookiedad]

all year too! good food and hickory smoke bring a warming feeling to those cold winter days.
phil

[dapittboss]

I think you just came up with an avatar that dapitboss wouldn't want to hit.


Don't Bet on that!!![/QUOTE]

I guess, maybe, if you closed your eyes...

[backyardchef]

Definitely 'que all year....add me to the list of people that prefer the fall and winter time for cooking. It gets nice and quiet and still, people start to thin out. Every once in a while a deer comes walking by. I keep thinking I should cook one of them, too....

[Kevin]

I do have sympathy for you fellows in the south that get to experience only one season. Here in Minnesota we have 2. Winter and road construction. I Que during both seasons. The winter one sometimes requires tarps.

[slat]

I Que all year. The summer is hot and humid, but the rest of the year is great.

[BBQ_MAFIA]

My pit is smok'en all year round.

[icemn62]

Raining today, thunderstorm and light show in the heavens. Was gonna smoke some chicken pieces, but wife told me I can not go out and play. If she would have stayed home from work I might have listened to her. got the coals lit (k side down for chicken right?) and watching the show while drinking coffee. Plan is to throw on the chicks, take son to school. come home to check on chicks, then off to a diner for a good breakfast of corn beef has, eggs, hash browns, toast and the bottomless cup of coffee. I love to be off during the week.

[Trout_man22]

K down and facing right always right for chicken that is.

[JohnMcD348]

I que all year too. Actually living in Florida, I consider the Fall and Winter the prime outdoor cooking times. If we have a struggle bbq-ing, it is the heat, humidity, and rain-and-thunderstorms of summer. Tending a fire all in 90+ temps with 90 percent humidity and a thunderstorm threatening can be a challenge. But we do it.


I thought that was part of the fun of queing. I live in Lakeland so when you don't get the rain, I am certain to get it from both the Orlando and Tampa fronts converging and let me tell ya, it ain't pretty. Dark clouds, hard rains and winds and me outside with my umbrella trying to get another chimney of coals going for my smoker, standing under the big oak in the back yard with the lightening and thunder rolling through.......NOW THAT's FUN.......


JTMcD.

[CharlieBeasley]

I have been known to leave the Weber outside the kitchen door and work it through the cracked open door. Arm gets cold and you need more charcoal but the results work. I did not have a smoker, which would have been much more difficult to vent out of the kitchen GRiN.8)

[willkat98]

K down and facing right always right for chicken that is.

Agreed

Left if west of the Mississippi though

[Solidkick]

Yep, I get the 'dera going at least once or twice a month during the winter. We love smoked bone in hams and turkeys for the holidays, and I usually get a jones'n going for some good ribs monthly.

[Kevin]

Yep, I get the 'dera going at least once or twice a month during the winter. We love smoked bone in hams and turkeys for the holidays, and I usually get a jones'n going for some good ribs monthly.


Ham on the shelf above the turkey mod. Self basting.

[MrSmoker]

Of course i do, i eat year round :wink:

[nucleargeek]

Something about huddling around the firebox to keep warm makes me love queing in the winter even that much more.