Hey ya'll my name is Koy. Im 27, recently hitched to my wife Lina a new to this wonderful world of smoking . I work as an Autotech for Best Buy. I live in Antioch Ca. It's about an hour away from San Francisco.
My uncle and I grill carne asada at his house just about every other Sunday on his Weber grill. I love grilling porterhouse's, steaks and rib-eyes but what I have always wanted to make were smoked ribs. I have always loved smoked meats but no one in my family owns a smoker that I could use so I decided to buy one myself.
I did my homework before buying a smoker and based on what I learned from amazingribs.com which is a really good site btw, I decided to forgo the smoker's offered through my local hardware stores and instead kept checking criagslist everyday for a chance of picking up a used good quality smoker at a price I could afford. well about three days ago I found a smoker that I fell in love with and immediately traveled an hour and half from my home to buy it.
I'm proud to say that I'm the new owner of a Bar-B-Chef offset smoker!!
I had read some reviews and specs about this smoker and wanted to buy one but was saddened to hear that they went out of production a couple of years ago so you could imaging my delight to find this available through craigslist. I think is a good value at 150 bucks. It looks like it was used several times but was kept in relatively good condition by the previous owner who I don't think really knew how to use it.
I plan making some modifications to it soon. I already have some thick mesh grill from home depot for the construction of a minion charcoal box. I'm going to order two good quality thermometers from Amazone, one for each side of the grill. I plan in also buying a tuning plate although they seem pricey and I'm currently trying to find oven bricks to line the bottom of the pit for temp control but I'm having a hard time finding them.
I'm really new to smoking but I am trying cover all bases possible so I can hopefully produce a good batch of ribs on my first try in about a week ( right now i'm trying to clean some rust off and do some minor restorations). any who, I have a short clip of my smoker on my youtube page which you guys can check out.
I will post up new video once i have done some of the modifications so in the mean time let me know what you guys think and any advice would be greatly appreciated. L8ter
My uncle and I grill carne asada at his house just about every other Sunday on his Weber grill. I love grilling porterhouse's, steaks and rib-eyes but what I have always wanted to make were smoked ribs. I have always loved smoked meats but no one in my family owns a smoker that I could use so I decided to buy one myself.
I did my homework before buying a smoker and based on what I learned from amazingribs.com which is a really good site btw, I decided to forgo the smoker's offered through my local hardware stores and instead kept checking criagslist everyday for a chance of picking up a used good quality smoker at a price I could afford. well about three days ago I found a smoker that I fell in love with and immediately traveled an hour and half from my home to buy it.
I'm proud to say that I'm the new owner of a Bar-B-Chef offset smoker!!
I had read some reviews and specs about this smoker and wanted to buy one but was saddened to hear that they went out of production a couple of years ago so you could imaging my delight to find this available through craigslist. I think is a good value at 150 bucks. It looks like it was used several times but was kept in relatively good condition by the previous owner who I don't think really knew how to use it.
I plan making some modifications to it soon. I already have some thick mesh grill from home depot for the construction of a minion charcoal box. I'm going to order two good quality thermometers from Amazone, one for each side of the grill. I plan in also buying a tuning plate although they seem pricey and I'm currently trying to find oven bricks to line the bottom of the pit for temp control but I'm having a hard time finding them.
I will post up new video once i have done some of the modifications so in the mean time let me know what you guys think and any advice would be greatly appreciated. L8ter
