Man I am loving this smiley!!
Anyway...I am new around here, I found this site via MrSmoker. I do not personally know him but he was talking about the AZBarbecue 1st annual escape the heat camping trip on another BBQ site so i followed him over here to check it out. I live outside of Prescott in Chino Valley and man do I love it.
I Q for family and friends when ever I can, I use an older offset Hondo with all the required mods and am building a UDS as time permits but am really in no hurry as the Hondo works great and I can get 3-4 hours of burn out of her. I tend to do a lot of Pork (pulled) and ribs (pork and beef) because that is what people seem to like the most but I am looking at doing my first Brisket on the 4th of July. As with most I started out with an ECB, used in once and now it sits. Got a brinkman something or other pit (clam shell lid design) and it worked but held temps like a crack addict hold a job and needed tons of tending. I finally found someone selling an older Hondo on CL for $10 (twice as thick at the Brinkman and is sealed better) so that is what I use today.
I am not all that interested in competing my self but it might be cool to be a pit beeoch for someone else sometime just for the fun and experience. I attended my first comp last Oct at Veijas in California as a spectator and had a great time. It was very cool to see all the competitors and all the different types of smokers being used. We ate some of the donated Q (I believe the money went to charity) the ribs I had were good the pulled pork not so much...but I ramble...
More than likely I wont post tons but, I am sure I will pop up from time to time. I do have to remember to post sometimes so my account does not become inactive (has happened to me before). I don't get into the "this board is better than that board" at all. I am a member of some, a lurker on most and I try to grab the best stuff from them all.
Oh and just because here's that smiley again...
