"First World" Grilling Problems?

My WiFi connection is spotty and I lost 3 minutes of fireboard polling data.

Stlsportster said:

My WiFi connection is spotty and I lost 3 minutes of fireboard polling data.

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Wow....gimme a beer

Well it actually happened the Sunday afternoon of the time change after the Wife went to church meeting and all. She was supposed to have the yard mowed that day. Now I'm not going to put headlights on the push mower but as far as BBQ, I've got floodlights on the grills and pits!

Here it's gotten chilly (below 50 in this part of the world) so I've had to get the wife used to bringing me Bourbon instead of the ice fold beer she usually brings me while I'm slaving away watching the smoker do it's thing.

I have to use a 2000 Lumen flashlight magnetically mounted to the dome of my UDS to see when my carne asada is done on the Blackstone.

Sometimes it is hard to decide which smoker or grill to use for a cook

Weather here in Melbourne has been cr@p (relatively) even though we're getting sundown after 8pm now. No point going out to Q when it's still raining and cold. I'm so desperate to have a good evening of it. Just not happening and it's nearly farkin Christmas. The rest of the country on farkin FIRE and we get THIS sh!t!!! :drama:

In my part of the globe you can be in a tornado -freeze-sunburn and get frostbite in the same 24 hour time period. Sometimes ya just gotta hit that Bangkok Tokyo for Pad C U or Kee Mao? You know, the one with jalapeño

Golf shorts 24/7/365 and a selection of fleece pullovers

Stay hydrated
Water-Dark Beer & Whiskey
Brown recluse-Black Widows and rattlesnakes keep me from rummaging around in the dark

My wife has imposed a strict 2 cooker rule. I can't seem to explain to her that the Bronco is LESS THAN HALF PRICE at Wally World and how could I possibly pass that up???

16Adams said:

Golf shorts 24/7/365 and a selection of fleece pullovers

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Yup. Cargo shorts all year round for me. :thumb: If it gets in the 50s, then it's pullover/light jacket time. In the 40s or below, I'll add a wool hat to that equation and maybe step it up to the Carhartt jacket if things are below freezing. But shorts 24/7/365 for sure. I've always been that way since I was a kid. As long as I have a jacket on and my head/feet are warm, I'm fine with shorts in even the coldest weather.

My cooking area isn’t covered and I have a car & two motorcycles taking up all the space in my garage, so I have to keep covers on most of my smokers and grills for the three or so times it rains here every “winter”. Plus I’m going to have to get up before 9AM Saturday to smoke a rib roast and it will be over 80* here. Boo hoo.

Last weekend almost brought the world to an end. While getting ready to provide for my family's food needs for the LSU-Bama game, the unimaginable happened.

I turned on the valve of the 20lb. propane bottle, grabbed the self-ignition button on the 3000 degree weed burner, and nothing. Nothing. Igniter had failed. What was I to do now, as my timing was now compromised. How was I to get splits burning?

With meats prepped, and guests arriving later, my back was against the wall. I had earlier confirmed that the television signals for the game were properly being bounced off satellites, received by my 4K tv, and that the audio signal was proper on the 7.2 surround. But a cold smoker was now my nemesis.

Finally, while dispensing ice from the ice maker, it dawned on me that to resolve this catastrophe, I was going to have to go to an old school solution.

So I used an electric match, to light the weed burner, to light the smoker, to cook the meat.
Whew, problem solved. Old school "electric match" saved the day.

Geaux Tigers.

Edit: Using my laptop, I researched a replacement ignitor, ordered it online, paid with a card, and got an email confirming delivery will be Tuesday. What has the world come to? Crap, no 2nd day delivery? Unacceptable.

AT&T U-verse got into a p1ssing contest with the NFL and I have been without the Redzone channel all season because I have been too busy/lazy to switch to Xfinity. Redzone and smoking/grilling on the patio has been a Sunday staple for years. Now I have to watch network programming like poor people

It’s 32° and the pooper is burning a few more pellets per hour !!!

#ohthehumanity