Best Thing You Ever Bought for BBQ and The Worst Thing

[PimpSmoke]

Best: Auber Controller

Worst: Maverick ET-73

 

[JD McGee]

Best...WSM

Worst...Maverick ET73

 

[chomper's bbq]

The best thing: the plans from the internet on how to contstruct a trailer smoker
The worst thing: the 300 gallon trailer cooker I bought from an add posted at a store. With the plans it was remade into a nice efficient smoker (the only origional part remaining is the 300 gallon tank)

 

[bigsapper]

Interesting query.

Best: Without question my BGE.

Worst is not so easy to articulate. Everything I've owned to cook outdoors has always provided me a constructive learning opportunity.

Would I buy an ECB today? No; but when I had one, I learned to use it and it increased my knowledge and prepared me to better appreciate what would follow. Everything I've owned has either been passed on, wore out or is still with me.

So with all that said....

Worst: *If* I were to receive it, the BBQ Smoke Cologne.

 

[deguerre]

Best - Weber chimney.
Worst - lighter fluid.:becky:

 

[DirtyDirty00]

Best: wireless thermometer. lets me at least sit down for 15 minutes before tending the fire again. and a thermapen my fiancee just bought me.


Worst: TBD

 

[DirtyDirty00]

Best: Wireless thermometer & Thermapen (my fiancee just bought me a month ago)

Worst: TBD

 

[Kenny Rogers]

Best: BGE (the subscription here is a close second though)

Worst: BGE felt gaskets!

 

[Lake Dogs]

Maverick ET- 73's, worst? Really?

Here I was thinking my 2 of them were close to my best. Did you get bad models or something?

 

[hockeyfox]

Best - Wife who is willing to get me a beer, hand me the tongs and do miscellaneous other things while I am cooking.

Worst - cheap cedar planks that caught fire during my last salmon cook

 

[5-0 BBQ]

Best: All of my BBQ Store inventory. Toys whenever I want

Worst: Thank god I did not buy it but we smoked a Turtle. :crazy:

 

[bigdaddydanbbq]

Best, my UDS The Big Blue Q Worst Cowboy brand charcoal,it smells like a burning telephone pole.:tsk:

 

[posey's_pork_pit]

Best: Custom Reverse Flow 55 Gallon Drum Offset a.k.a. Posey's Pork Pit :clap2:

Worst: Purchasing a 3rd electric element in as many years for the Mecco Electric Bullet ~ should have given it up after 2! :doh:

 

[nmayeux]

Best: Marie Laveau, My Lang 60
Worst: Bad ribs from Sam's. I can still smell the stink.

 

[morgantm]

Best - $250 Bubba Keg new on Craigslist, Thermapen

Worst - Nothing yet, big thanks to being able to search this site on information before purchasing things

 

[sandiegobbq]

Lot of folks seem to like their Thermapens.

 

[Fever]

Best = WSM
Worse = Digital Thermo at Home Depot, it was $35 donation because it sucks!

 

[Boshizzle]

Best: Any of my smokers; Jambo, Bubba Keg, UDS, mini-WSM. Each has it's own strengths.

Worst: ET-732. It never worked well and the probes died during the 1st cook.

 

[Gore]

Best: Primo Oval XL

Worst: Two Maverick thermometers (the remote has a range of just a few feet and the super fast one got a stable reading in about 15 seconds).

 

[jrbBBQ]

Lot of folks seem to like their Thermapens.

When I first joined this site earlier this year, I thought... who are these idiots paying $100 dollars for a thermometer. Now, I'm the idiot for not buying one right from the start. I've learned enough to know the general time frame when something is done, and just probe it with the thermapen to check, and it also helps if you are cooking over 100 peices of chicken and some smarta@@ insists it isn't done and all you have to do is hit it with the thermo and send them back under the rock from which the only chicken they know is a breast that tastes like cardboard and is dry as sandpaper... ok. sorry, back to the BEST/WORST thing.