- Aug 30, 2009
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Hi all..Great site..wish there was something like this when I got started..
Anyway..I'm an 18 year Navy Chief, Have been cooking in various form or fashion since I was a kid..didn't get any good at it until my wife got sick of cooking..
Back about 2000 or so my mom bought me a brinkmann offset smoker, but it's one of the good ones it's all heavy gage steel..3/16" or a 1/4" sucker is HEAVY! But it works very well.
I haven't been cooking outside much lately, no time, but I usually make pork ribs and Boston Butts for the family...I took up dutch oven cooking a few years back, as all my girls are in scouting, and I wind up doing the cooking
at the camp outs....someone came along at the first one and very officiously informed me that I wasn't cooking in the girlsout way, and that I hadn't been to this class and that class....That didn't last long.. (I AM a Chief) and now I dont' get any flak, they just all line up bowls in hand...
Good food is the worlds greatest persuader...
I have a small collection of cast iron, mostly my dutch ovens...but I recently scored a 25 gallon cauldron...I am so wanting to make 20 gallons of chili..oh well..maybe I'll find a group big enough before too long.
My family and I are also avid gardeners...we have a quarter acre or so under cultivation right now..mostly tomatoes for sauce and peppers and beans...
Thanks for a great site!
Anyway..I'm an 18 year Navy Chief, Have been cooking in various form or fashion since I was a kid..didn't get any good at it until my wife got sick of cooking..
Back about 2000 or so my mom bought me a brinkmann offset smoker, but it's one of the good ones it's all heavy gage steel..3/16" or a 1/4" sucker is HEAVY! But it works very well.
I haven't been cooking outside much lately, no time, but I usually make pork ribs and Boston Butts for the family...I took up dutch oven cooking a few years back, as all my girls are in scouting, and I wind up doing the cooking
at the camp outs....someone came along at the first one and very officiously informed me that I wasn't cooking in the girlsout way, and that I hadn't been to this class and that class....That didn't last long.. (I AM a Chief) and now I dont' get any flak, they just all line up bowls in hand...
Good food is the worlds greatest persuader...
I have a small collection of cast iron, mostly my dutch ovens...but I recently scored a 25 gallon cauldron...I am so wanting to make 20 gallons of chili..oh well..maybe I'll find a group big enough before too long.
My family and I are also avid gardeners...we have a quarter acre or so under cultivation right now..mostly tomatoes for sauce and peppers and beans...
Thanks for a great site!