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camper4lyfe

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Feb 25, 2010
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Fairport, NY
Hey folks, I'm Jeff and I love smoking meats.

Yup, standard new guy into here.

My wife and I bought a house in November of 2008. Within a week of moving in (from an apartment that didn't allow grills), I found myself at Lowe's buying a Char Griller Duo. I couldn't be happier with my purchase.

I've done a few racks of ribs, 1 pork shoulder, and 1 brisket. The shoulder and brisket need some work (I need to learn to time things better), but at least the flavor's good!

I've done a couple mods to my Duo:

1) added the side fire box for indirect heat/smoking
2) made a charcoal basket so i don't have to fuss with the charcoal as much

In the future, I plan to add a couple more, higher quality, thermometers, as well as work on getting the fire box and main chamber to seal better.

I'm currently learning the best way to get the temperature under control, as I fight temperature spikes. Slow, steady progress is coming there.
 
Thanks. Since I'm new, I've still got a LOT to learn. hoping to get some "experience" under my belt by reading other people's experiences.
 
Welcome to SMF where you will learn about brisket and pork stalls , ABT s , ECB s Qview , the 5 Day eCourse , Fattie s , MES , EVOO and all kinds of neat stuff . My name is Buddy and I am a smoker . I live in Texas .
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Welcome to the SMF. Glad to have you here. Lots of good folks here and knowledge. Looking forward to your first qview.
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Hello Jeff, and welcome to the SMF. Good to read that you're working on temp control, it will be worth the effort in your future smokes. It's all good my friend.
 
Hi Jeff,
Welcome to the forum, and its a small world ain't it ?

I'm in Camillus. (near Syracuse)

"Where's there's smoke......there's MEAT" ( I hope)
 
I've been itching to do some smoking lately, but with this nasty weather, and my relative noviceness, I'm hesitant to do much until the weather warms up.
 
Try it, I did some beef ribs on Super Sunday. It takes a little extra work but if your're a die-hard, do it !

I'm looking to start competition cooking. I'm gonna enter the RocCity Rib-off in Rochester in May. (memorial day weekend)

Scott
 
That's cool. Keep me posted on that. I'd like to stop by and check things out if I'm around (we usually start going up to the Thousand Islands around that time).
 
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