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Keri C
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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... :roll: ) 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! :biggrin:
Regards to all -
Keri C, still smokin' on Tulsa Time
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... :roll: ) 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! :biggrin:
Regards to all -
Keri C, still smokin' on Tulsa Time
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