TheTeZ
Knows what a fatty is.
- Joined
- Mar 8, 2016
- Location
- Rockland County, NY
Hey guys!
So any time I do a Google search for anything bbq related I am always brought to threads on these forums. I figure it's about time finally join up.
So a little about me, and how I got started I guess.
When I was roughly 14 I was at a church picnic type thing, my dad handed me the tongs and told me to grill some burgers and dogs. I don't know if this was the first time I touched a grill or not, but it's one of my earliest memories of actually cooking on it. So, like I said, church picnic type thing, that means frozen 1/4lb patties in the red box, you know.
I grill up burgers and shortly after noticed people talking about how great the burgers were. All kinds of great compliments. I know I was 14 and maybe they were being nice, but some people didn't know who cooked the burgers, and I didn't tend to be very gullible.
From there it kind of exploded, any time their was anything I grilled, my mom would have me cook stuff on the grill instead of my dad. (Who I will say, makes a mean steak, but who's dad didn't?)
So anyway, jump ahead .. a bunch of years and a couple grills, I started smoking hams, and a few other things on my weber grill. At that point my parents got me one of those ecb's you know... the ones that don't work. The webber worked so much better, but I was determineD to get it working. I am a big DIYer I modified the Brinkman quite a bit to the point it was actually somewhat useable, and would maintain temps for ... 45 mins to an hour maybe... and for one of those cheap things, it wasn't bad. (My parents are now the proud, somewhat frustrated owners, I brought it over to their place and when they go camping they use it. My yard was filling up with grills/smokers and she was asking about it)
Like I said I am a big do it yourselfer, I enjoy designing and fabricating. I ended up making a sort of reverse flow double barrel smoker, bottom barrel is the fire box, top barrel is the cooking chamber. (Talk of the town at our first competition) It worked very well due to design and firebrick, i ended up making a mirrored one for my teammate, but they do go through a decent chunk of fuel
Since then I've gotten some other commercial smokers, went from a couple fridge smokers, to the weber 22.5 bullet, anD at the first competition we did I picked up a spicewine from another team for a steel.
I've made a nice charcoal basket (square maze type of thing) from perforated steel, with some larger holes punched and... that's about it, that thing along with my guru(which hardly needs to run) will run roughly 18 to 20 hours with one load of charcoal, i can say i am pretty happ with that.
I've still got a couple smokers I didn't get rid of, and of course my first home made smoker.
That's about it for now, how I started and what I'm cooking with. I'll try and load up some photos and what not tomorrow, but that's it for now.
(Sorry about formatting if it's an issue, I'm on my phone)
So any time I do a Google search for anything bbq related I am always brought to threads on these forums. I figure it's about time finally join up.
So a little about me, and how I got started I guess.
When I was roughly 14 I was at a church picnic type thing, my dad handed me the tongs and told me to grill some burgers and dogs. I don't know if this was the first time I touched a grill or not, but it's one of my earliest memories of actually cooking on it. So, like I said, church picnic type thing, that means frozen 1/4lb patties in the red box, you know.
I grill up burgers and shortly after noticed people talking about how great the burgers were. All kinds of great compliments. I know I was 14 and maybe they were being nice, but some people didn't know who cooked the burgers, and I didn't tend to be very gullible.
From there it kind of exploded, any time their was anything I grilled, my mom would have me cook stuff on the grill instead of my dad. (Who I will say, makes a mean steak, but who's dad didn't?)
So anyway, jump ahead .. a bunch of years and a couple grills, I started smoking hams, and a few other things on my weber grill. At that point my parents got me one of those ecb's you know... the ones that don't work. The webber worked so much better, but I was determineD to get it working. I am a big DIYer I modified the Brinkman quite a bit to the point it was actually somewhat useable, and would maintain temps for ... 45 mins to an hour maybe... and for one of those cheap things, it wasn't bad. (My parents are now the proud, somewhat frustrated owners, I brought it over to their place and when they go camping they use it. My yard was filling up with grills/smokers and she was asking about it)
Like I said I am a big do it yourselfer, I enjoy designing and fabricating. I ended up making a sort of reverse flow double barrel smoker, bottom barrel is the fire box, top barrel is the cooking chamber. (Talk of the town at our first competition) It worked very well due to design and firebrick, i ended up making a mirrored one for my teammate, but they do go through a decent chunk of fuel
Since then I've gotten some other commercial smokers, went from a couple fridge smokers, to the weber 22.5 bullet, anD at the first competition we did I picked up a spicewine from another team for a steel.
I've made a nice charcoal basket (square maze type of thing) from perforated steel, with some larger holes punched and... that's about it, that thing along with my guru(which hardly needs to run) will run roughly 18 to 20 hours with one load of charcoal, i can say i am pretty happ with that.
I've still got a couple smokers I didn't get rid of, and of course my first home made smoker.
That's about it for now, how I started and what I'm cooking with. I'll try and load up some photos and what not tomorrow, but that's it for now.
(Sorry about formatting if it's an issue, I'm on my phone)
