Hello from OK - I'm still Smokin' on Tulsa Time

Keri C · 06-28-2007, 11:27 AM

Good morning, all - I'm Keri Cathey, chief cook and bottle washer for Hot Wire BBQ, and a CBJ since... uh... 2003, I guess it was. DH Robert and I started out our married life lo these 27 years ago with a ECB (back in the days when it had a hole in the bottom of the charcoal pan...). We cooked quite a bit on that old thing, and were convinced that we were putting out some FINE groceries (whether we actually were or not is another story).

Online BBQ history: I started hanging out on the old Rick Thead list in around 1998, following it through its various incarnations as the BBQ Porch and now the Smoke Ring BBQ E-mail Discussion list. I sat back, read, and learned from the edges of the Porch, occasionally piping in to ask a question. In the last some-odd years I'm a bit of a regular over on the Virtual Weber Bullet board, and occasionally put in my two-cents-worth over on Basso's Forum. I've had the pleasure of already meeting quite a few that I see are regulars amongst the Brethren, and I look forward to meeting more of you in the future.

BBQ Activity: Friends, family, neighbors, and co-workers on a regular basis - you all know how that goes! We compete a few times a year, mostly just around this area, but have judged in Colorado, Kansas, TX, OK, and Arkansas. We also enjoy joining in on cooks such as feeding the 1500 Katrina refugees at Camp Gruber here in OK right after that hurricane hit, Operation BBQ Greensburg KS that assured that the little tornado-ravaged town had their traditional Memorial Day BBQ event, and various Senior-Q functions during the month of October (which is soon to be officially proclaimed as Senior-Q month in Oklahoma, if I ever get the documents back from the governor's office). DH Robert is the social director of our little team. (He proudly proclaimed his status as my Towel Bch 1st Class until he figured out the duties that went along with that title...

) We were 8th overall out 70 or so teams at our last comp (Bixby OK). I wasn't too ashamed of that - it was our 4th competition, so I don't guess I should mind getting beaten by the likes of Buffalo, Twin Oaks, Royal Oak, Head Co, and those other regulars to the stage.

Well, that's my background. We currently cook on two well-worn WSMs, 1 well-loved DPP "Fat 50" with 30 sq' of cooking space, and Robert and I have been learning to weld by building a Stumps gravity feed clone that will also have about 30' of space (5 regular racks, each 2' x 3'). We hope that we'll have it to the point of cooking on it in time for the Art of BBQ this year. Other toys - a pair of Honda Goldwing touring bikes (39 states and 4 provinces of Canada so far), and a 1970 Buick Electra 225 ragtop in the latter stages of restoration.

Those of you who know me from other online forums probably already know this, but it's practically impossible for me to write a short post - I tend to run off at the fingers badly. My apologies for that, but I just HAD to get that blasted 1-time-poster lighter fluid comment off my name!

Regards to all -
Keri C, still smokin' on Tulsa Time

backyardchef · 06-28-2007, 11:32 AM

Welcome, Keri!

GREAT to have you here. You have incredible skills, recipes and cooking insights that will be a major asset to the group....Please share!!

Matt in NYC

HeSmellsLikeSmoke · 06-28-2007, 11:39 AM

Hey Keri! It is really great to see you here

You will find a great discussion of Hog-Apple beans on here if you do a search. You might want to give them a try. LOL

I look forward to your thoughtful posts.

Westexbbq · 06-28-2007, 11:47 AM

Welcome to the camp Keri,
Enjoy.

Smokin Gator · 06-28-2007, 11:48 AM

Welcome to our corner of the WWW... I look forward to hearing more from you.

ultramag · 06-28-2007, 11:59 AM

Welcome aboard.

Bill-Chicago · 06-28-2007, 12:02 PM

Welcome

Still trying to find time to try your apple bean recipe!

bowhnter · 06-28-2007, 12:13 PM

Welcome Keri

VGuilford · 06-28-2007, 01:27 PM

Welcome

Papa Hogg · 06-28-2007, 01:47 PM

Welcome to the backyard...feel free to ramble or babble on most of us do

we'll smoke u · 06-28-2007, 03:25 PM

Welcome aboard

Captain Caveman · 06-28-2007, 03:35 PM

Welcome to the forum Keri!
I had the pleasure of meeting you and Robert at Bentonville.
I have the Orange Stumper clone.

How is Robert's clone comming?

Keri C · 06-28-2007, 03:56 PM

Thanks for the kind words, eveyone. Hey, Caveman, that Stumper is coming right along. Interior skin is welded in now. Charcoal chute and firebox are in place. Racks are built. Exterior skin is broken at the corners and ready to go on as soon as the insulation goes in the walls. Wheels are causing a bit of consternation. He says that once it's finished, it's all mine to cook as I please as he's going to start another soon thereafter, more the size of the GF223. I was inside the cooker crawling around the other night shining the flashlight along the seams to help him find any holes in his welds... and if you remember, I am NOT what one would refer to as a petite flower by any stretch of the imagination. It's a ... ehem... farking big cooker, it is! Same square footage of cooking space as the Fat 50, but it just seems bigger since it's more vertically oriented, I guess.

We're hoping it'll be ready for Art of BBQ July 13-14. Are you coming over for that one?

Keri C

Captain Caveman · 06-28-2007, 04:05 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Keri C

Thanks for the kind words, eveyone. Hey, Caveman, that Stumper is coming right along. Interior skin is welded in now. Charcoal chute and firebox are in place. Racks are built. Exterior skin is broken at the corners and ready to go on as soon as the insulation goes in the walls. Wheels are causing a bit of consternation. He says that once it's finished, it's all mine to cook as I please as he's going to start another soon thereafter, more the size of the GF223. I was inside the cooker crawling around the other night shining the flashlight along the seams to help him find any holes in his welds... and if you remember, I am NOT what one would refer to as a petite flower by any stretch of the imagination. It's a ... ehem... farking big cooker, it is! Same square footage of cooking space as the Fat 50, but it just seems bigger since it's more vertically oriented, I guess.

We're hoping it'll be ready for Art of BBQ July 13-14. Are you coming over for that one?

Keri C

We won't be able to make Art of BBQ, we only compete once per month, and July is taken.

Good luck to you guys though, and GET THAT SMOKER DONE! (and post pics

)

Harbormaster · 06-28-2007, 04:39 PM

Boy, the Bar-B-IQue of this site just took a bump! (well, she cancels out drop it took when I joined)

Welcome to the best clubhouse on the web Keri!

I have to confess that I am somewhat embarrased I have yet to try the Hog Apple bean recipe. Now that there's nowhere to hide I'm gonna have to!

06-28-2007, 11:27 AM	#1
Keri C On the road to being a farker Join Date: 05-14-07 Location: Broken Arrow, OK	Hello from OK - I'm still Smokin' on Tulsa Time Good morning, all - I'm Keri Cathey, chief cook and bottle washer for Hot Wire BBQ, and a CBJ since... uh... 2003, I guess it was. DH Robert and I started out our married life lo these 27 years ago with a ECB (back in the days when it had a hole in the bottom of the charcoal pan...). We cooked quite a bit on that old thing, and were convinced that we were putting out some FINE groceries (whether we actually were or not is another story). Online BBQ history: I started hanging out on the old Rick Thead list in around 1998, following it through its various incarnations as the BBQ Porch and now the Smoke Ring BBQ E-mail Discussion list. I sat back, read, and learned from the edges of the Porch, occasionally piping in to ask a question. In the last some-odd years I'm a bit of a regular over on the Virtual Weber Bullet board, and occasionally put in my two-cents-worth over on Basso's Forum. I've had the pleasure of already meeting quite a few that I see are regulars amongst the Brethren, and I look forward to meeting more of you in the future. BBQ Activity: Friends, family, neighbors, and co-workers on a regular basis - you all know how that goes! We compete a few times a year, mostly just around this area, but have judged in Colorado, Kansas, TX, OK, and Arkansas. We also enjoy joining in on cooks such as feeding the 1500 Katrina refugees at Camp Gruber here in OK right after that hurricane hit, Operation BBQ Greensburg KS that assured that the little tornado-ravaged town had their traditional Memorial Day BBQ event, and various Senior-Q functions during the month of October (which is soon to be officially proclaimed as Senior-Q month in Oklahoma, if I ever get the documents back from the governor's office). DH Robert is the social director of our little team. (He proudly proclaimed his status as my Towel Bch 1st Class until he figured out the duties that went along with that title... ) We were 8th overall out 70 or so teams at our last comp (Bixby OK). I wasn't too ashamed of that - it was our 4th competition, so I don't guess I should mind getting beaten by the likes of Buffalo, Twin Oaks, Royal Oak, Head Co, and those other regulars to the stage. Well, that's my background. We currently cook on two well-worn WSMs, 1 well-loved DPP "Fat 50" with 30 sq' of cooking space, and Robert and I have been learning to weld by building a Stumps gravity feed clone that will also have about 30' of space (5 regular racks, each 2' x 3'). We hope that we'll have it to the point of cooking on it in time for the Art of BBQ this year. Other toys - a pair of Honda Goldwing touring bikes (39 states and 4 provinces of Canada so far), and a 1970 Buick Electra 225 ragtop in the latter stages of restoration. Those of you who know me from other online forums probably already know this, but it's practically impossible for me to write a short post - I tend to run off at the fingers badly. My apologies for that, but I just HAD to get that blasted 1-time-poster lighter fluid comment off my name! Regards to all - Keri C, still smokin' on Tulsa Time __________________ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 2 well-worn WSMs 2 Cookshack FEC 100 pellet munchers 1 ECB circa 1981 (retired) 1 Stumper clone, size XL 1 Vermont Casting gas grill (in case of emergency) 1 partially converted stumper clone based on a 1965 Montgomery Wards upright freezer Last edited by Keri C; 06-28-2007 at 12:02 PM..

06-28-2007, 11:32 AM	#2
backyardchef Babbling Farker Join Date: 11-05-04 Location: New York City	Welcome, Keri! GREAT to have you here. You have incredible skills, recipes and cooking insights that will be a major asset to the group....Please share!! Matt in NYC __________________ Matt Fletcher's Brooklyn Barbecue The Hampton Smoker Blog: http://backyardchef.blogspot.com 7' Meadow Creek reverse flow w/ a 4' grill on the nose, named Large Marge 48" Klose Backyard Chef named Wubby Willy the Wonder Grill Weber Kettle named Georgiette ECB Spider Web Collector Model Char-Griller Smokin' Pro Firebrick Supremo

06-28-2007, 11:39 AM	#3
HeSmellsLikeSmoke somebody shut me the fark up. Join Date: 04-02-07 Location: Warren, Vermont	Hey Keri! It is really great to see you here You will find a great discussion of Hog-Apple beans on here if you do a search. You might want to give them a try. LOL I look forward to your thoughtful posts. __________________ Jim - Another transplanted Texan Former KCBS CBJ Large and Medium Big Green Eggs , Black 18.5" WSM, Blue Weber Performer - Stainless, Green Weber OTG Kettle , Brinkmann SnP Pro, and a Stainless UDS. One retired Portable Kitchen grill. Red Thermapen, Maverick ET-732, EdgePro Apex Sharpener. Avatar is the original 1951 Weber Kettle

06-28-2007, 11:47 AM	#4
Westexbbq somebody shut me the fark up. Join Date: 09-02-05 Location: Rockin' Lake Ronfarkoma, Hinterlands of BBQ .	Welcome to the camp Keri, Enjoy. __________________ Illuminated, circa 1967. KCBS CBJ-Texas Transplant. Texas Smokemaster offset, Well-cured NB Silver Smoker, Santa Fe grill (retired). glory bee gasser. Texas International Pop Festival, Labor Day 1969. IMBAS Certified. Just roll me up and smoke me when I die. Always remember, no matter where ya go, there you are. I wanna tell you 'bout Texas radio and the big beat. Someday, I hope to visit Penelope. Hondo Crouch, Famous Late Mayor of Lunkenbach, Texas who advocated a 'dillo diet: "You can eat nothing but armadillos for a month, but you will have to run down and catch all the armadillos you eat and it can really take the weight off!"

06-28-2007, 11:48 AM	#5
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06-28-2007, 11:59 AM	#6
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06-28-2007, 12:02 PM	#7
Bill-Chicago somebody shut me the fark up. Join Date: 08-11-03 Location: Chicago Southwestern Burbs, but always south of Madison Ave. Name/Nickname : Professor Dickweed	Welcome Still trying to find time to try your apple bean recipe! __________________ . Bill-Chicago The death of "willkat98" Me: If you aren't woke, that means you're still sleeping, right? Kid today: That's racist! Bandera, M-BGE, WSM, Gold Kettle, Kenmore Gasser, 36Qt Turkey Fryer, ECB, Dutch Oven, Black Iron BBQ Viper-M, Blackstone 36" Griddle

06-28-2007, 12:13 PM	#8
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06-28-2007, 01:27 PM	#9
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06-28-2007, 01:47 PM	#10
Papa Hogg is One Chatty Farker Join Date: 05-10-07 Location: Racine, WI	Welcome to the backyard...feel free to ramble or babble on most of us do __________________ BWS - The New Standard Party Model; Char-Broil Offset; Twin Chamber Charcoal Grill; Kingsford Grill; 1 - Blue Thermapen; 1 - SpitJack Magnum Meat Injector Gun "The problem with Socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money." - Margaret Thatcher

06-28-2007, 03:25 PM	#11
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06-28-2007, 03:35 PM	#12
Captain Caveman is one Smokin' Farker Join Date: 05-04-07 Location: Carthage, Mo.	Welcome to the forum Keri! I had the pleasure of meeting you and Robert at Bentonville. I have the Orange Stumper clone. How is Robert's clone comming? __________________ -Chad Caveman Cuisine BBQ Team HEMI orange "Gravity Feed" Clone 2 Hotrod Black "Gravity Feed" clones Mobile Kitchen Towable offset CBJ #24304 KCBS member #24304

06-28-2007, 03:56 PM	#13
Keri C On the road to being a farker Join Date: 05-14-07 Location: Broken Arrow, OK	Thanks for the kind words, eveyone. Hey, Caveman, that Stumper is coming right along. Interior skin is welded in now. Charcoal chute and firebox are in place. Racks are built. Exterior skin is broken at the corners and ready to go on as soon as the insulation goes in the walls. Wheels are causing a bit of consternation. He says that once it's finished, it's all mine to cook as I please as he's going to start another soon thereafter, more the size of the GF223. I was inside the cooker crawling around the other night shining the flashlight along the seams to help him find any holes in his welds... and if you remember, I am NOT what one would refer to as a petite flower by any stretch of the imagination. It's a ... ehem... farking big cooker, it is! Same square footage of cooking space as the Fat 50, but it just seems bigger since it's more vertically oriented, I guess. We're hoping it'll be ready for Art of BBQ July 13-14. Are you coming over for that one? Keri C __________________ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 2 well-worn WSMs 2 Cookshack FEC 100 pellet munchers 1 ECB circa 1981 (retired) 1 Stumper clone, size XL 1 Vermont Casting gas grill (in case of emergency) 1 partially converted stumper clone based on a 1965 Montgomery Wards upright freezer

06-28-2007, 04:39 PM	#15
Harbormaster somebody shut me the fark up. Join Date: 07-14-06 Location: Wyocena/Pardeeville, WI Name/Nickname : Clark	Boy, the Bar-B-IQue of this site just took a bump! (well, she cancels out drop it took when I joined) Welcome to the best clubhouse on the web Keri! I have to confess that I am somewhat embarrased I have yet to try the Hog Apple bean recipe. Now that there's nowhere to hide I'm gonna have to! __________________ Clark My Boys: Joseph (EI); Andrew (EE); Daniel (EE) My Toys: 10 WSMs (B, C, E, DH, DA, EZ, DZ, EO, DU, DR); 5 - 22.5" Bar-B-Q-Kettles; 2 - 18.5" Bar-B-Q-Kettle; 4 WGAs (EZ, DE, N, B); 2 SJPs ( DR, DR); 2 Smokey Joes (A, K); Brinkman Cimmaron. "For when democracy becomes tyranny, those of us with rifles still get to vote"

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