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    Microwaves...

    I am absolutely convinced that microwaves don't just heat the food, they change the flavor. Bleah. Psychosomatic? Perhaps. But don't try to convince me otherwise. If I still had my trusty toast-r-oven (God rest its soul), I'd never, ever use a microwave. As for indispensible, my enormous...
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    Greetings from Downunder

    By the way, there's a BBQ restaurant in the New Farm area of Brisbane (run, predictably, by an expat American) -- Blue Smoke. My husband, whom I have converted to barbecue, ate there the last time he was in Brisbane and pronounced it a very honorable representative of the genre. -- Laura
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    Greetings from Downunder

    Greetings from a lone 'cuer in Wollongong! I don't smoke often, but when I do all my Aussie friends gather from miles around. It rocks their world. (I'm an expat American, so they chalk it up to American wierdness, but they clean their plates regardless.) -- Laura
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    smokers vs kettles

    A kettle and a tiny hibachi-with-a-lid are all I have, and I've smoked some mighty nice barbecue in them. I can't argue with results. -- Laura
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    Pot Smoker

    Can you use charcoal (with adequate airflow) for the heat source, or must it be the electric hot plate? -- Laura
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    Kalua pork

    Oh, I know all about Googling stuff I need to know all right, but all the recipes I found (including the one you posted the link to) called for Liquid Smoke, something I avoid on principle (and also by necessity, as they don't sell it in Australia). -- Laura
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    Kalua pork

    During recent travels in Hawaii (yeah, I know, sucks to be me), I tried kalua pork -- pork (in theory) slow-cooked in a pit. I had it at several different establishments, and it ranged from "yeah, not bad" to "this is some of the most tasteless, nasty stuff I've ever eaten." While I know it's...
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    smoke and beer or beer and a smoke

    Actually, I've been back home (that is, here in America) for the last couple of months, doing the Halloween-Thanksgiving-Christmas thing with my family (that's been GREAT -- I miss my family ALL the time, and holidays are always a bit sad when I'm away from them). During part of the trip, my...
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    smoke and beer or beer and a smoke

    I don't have a recipe, but I googled this: "smoked beer" -turkey (the "-turkey" is important because otherwise you get hundreds of recipes for beer-can turkey). I found: http://www.skotrat.com/skotrat/recipes/special/smoked/ http://www.alaskanbeer.com/porterstory.html (not a recipe, but...
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    Newbie questions re: competitions

    Not that I'm planning to compete right away or anything (although, come to think of it, since I'm in AUSTRALIA, I'd be guaranteed first place, as I'd most likely be the only competitor), but I'm curious: what are the judges looking for in a competition? I know, taste, presentation, etc. etc...
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    First-timer's amazing success story

    I didn't keep the temperature as constant as I would have liked, but it oscillated around 200F. I'm still getting the hang of that. (If it got below 190, I chucked a few more briquettes and wood chips on; if it got above 220, I opened the lid for a few seconds. Seemed to work.) Things I have...
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    First-timer's amazing success story

    Hi, everyone -- I've already bored my family with my exultation on last weekend's Very First Smoke-a-thon, and I'm hoping you will be a sympathetic audience and give me the encouragement and applause I crave. I'm an American expatriate living in Australia. Before that, I lived in DC and...
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