Soooo, how did you get your start?

[PUNKem733]

Originally Posted by rwalters

Fun story! Yes, the PBC is quite a lil cooker. I remember the first time I tried chicken from one. Unreal! Curious about the kettle. They typically last a long time… many going for 20ish years. What’s falling apart on yours after only 7-8 years?

Ash catcher fell out of the bowl and won't clip back into it, it just sits under the vent on the little shelf between the wheels. From my understanding, Weber making products in china has had their quality go downhill. Seems to me 20+ years ago they were built better. It's always been flimsy/rickety, but it still cooks fine (well the lid leaks a lot, but I just use giant binder clips and that fixes that). I don't cover it but it is under a patio, and I live in the desert, hell I barely move it. I'm looking at the SnS kettle now.

[Moose]

Bump!

[smoke ninja]

always grilled even as a teenager. didn't get into bbq until my 30s. got a ECB (el cheapo brinkmann) that I would undercook and oversmoke chicken on. got a WSM (weber smokey mountain) and started making dry butts and mushy ribs. after all that I couldn't help but get a sticker to absolutely massacre briskets in.

after all that I figured it would be best to join the brethren and learn to cook

[Lynn Dollar]

An Hibachi while in college in early 70's. Burgers and steaks. I kept one outside my apartment door, even brought one inside in the winter and put in the apartment fireplace.

Then after getting married in 1984, my FIL gave me a PK grill. And later I bought a Brinkman water smoker that I never figured out. Both were stolen off my patio in 1989. I really miss the PK but they did me a favor taking the Brinkman.

Next was a Kettle in 1990. Which I used to grill burgers and steaks, but also smoked yardbird. I tried to smoke a brisket, I used a pizza stone as a deflector plate. But in the middle of the cook the heat broke the pizza stone into three pieces. Failure.

But then come 2002 and I found the Virtual Weber Bullet site. And I bought a WSM. And everything got better. I was very content with what I was doing for a lot of years. Until I read Aaron Franklins 2015 book and it inspired me to do more.

And here I am.

[Get’n Smokey]

Well, apparently I was birth control baby in the mid $0’s

Poof…. I’m fresh off da corner.. never have a want never a need!

Don’t let your kids listen to west coast rap!!

“Snoop Dogg”

[PGarSD]

I have always had a grill around but became interested in smoking meat when I moved from TX to San Diego many years ago and couldn't find good BBQ.

I started with a used small Cookshack electric smoker, moved to a big pellet smoker (FEC-100) and then, last year, finally bit the bullet and bought a huge offset (Klose 20x60 BYC). I still have all three smokers in the rotation and decide which to use based on the time I have to manage things and the size of the cook. All put out excellent BBQ.


If I had a bigger yard like some of y'all, I'd have me a trailer smoker right quick just for the heck of it. :)

[Itsdone]

I learned on my own. POS Brinkman. Many meteorites on that smoker.

[hedonsmbot]

Turned 40, got married, had kids.

Woke up one morning wearing cargo shorts, uncannily interested in grilling and the state of my lawn. There's no rational line of causation.

[Big George's BBQ]

My father grilled steak on Saturday and Chicken every Sunday onm the Weber. He had the best chicken. When the weather was really bad he would use the indoor fireplace. When I moved out of my parents house and grilled my own food. Had a little Hibatchi- it was awesome then a Weber. Did not get a gas grill for several years. Got into competition after my wife got me a Chargriller offset. My oldest son told me to adjust my pantyhose and pull up my skirt and lets compete- we did and it was fun. Done doing Comps. Have a Large BGE that I use for grilling and smoking, a Weber gasser and a Blackstone Flattop Still a lot of fun