Tag: BBQ

  • BBQ Thermostat Project: First Live Test

    This is copied over from my Hackaday.io page. Today I was smoking a turkey so I figured it was a good time to do a live test of my project. There was good news and bad news. I think it’s illustrated quite well by the following graph: On the good news front: While I didn’t…

  • BBQ Thermostat Project

    I recently started an electronics hacking project to build a thermostat for my Weber Smokey Mountain. You can find details at Hackaday.io, but if you’ve been here long enough you know that I don’t trust other sites to continue to exist. (It’s why I copy my book reviews over from Good Reads). As of right…

  • New Dishes I cooked in Jan 2019

    New Dishes I cooked in Jan 2019

    In January I made a lot less new things than in previous months, but I did prove that even in sub-freezing temperatures I still BBQ and Smoke. My least favorite were the macadamia nut, white chocolate, and cranberry cookies. I’ve liked white chocolate and macadamia nut cookies in the past, but this was my first…

  • New dishes I cooked in July

  • Thunderbird Chicken Scratch

    Thunderbird Chicken Scratch

    Last time I was in Florida my mom took me to a specialty BBQ store, Just Grillin, off of Dale Mabry in Carrollwood. I didn’t know such places existed. I thought everyone just bought their grills at a hardware store, Amazon, or direct from the company. It was a pretty great to be able to…

  • Alabama Birds with White Sauce

    Alabama Birds with White Sauce

    Part of the fun of being into BBQ has been trying new things. As I’ve mentioned before, when I was growing up “BBQ” was what we called grilling and it MOSTLY consisted of burgers and hot dogs. Very occasionally it would be something else. Lots of lighter fluid and mediocre results. But now I know…

  • Pizza on the Weber Kettle

    Pizza on the Weber Kettle

    In the past few years I’ve been moving away from seeing pizza as junk food towards seeing it as another food that is sometimes made with care, skill, and love and sometimes make in a hurry for a buck. I can’t remember the exact timeline and can’t be bothered to search for photo evidence, but…

  • Smoked Chicken

    Smoked Chicken

    Do you know why a lot of people don’t BBQ that often? Because they always make the same thing and that’s boring. So I’ve been going through all the recipes in Meathead’s book (and other sources) to see if anything else is tasty to my palette. This time it was smoked chicken. I cut the…

  • Cooking Kansas City BBQ Sauce

    Cooking Kansas City BBQ Sauce

    I’d tackled all the major BBQ meats. It was time to try and make my own sauce. So I assembled all my ingredients and followed Meathead’s recipe. It’s supposed to be like KC Classic, which I’ve never had. I also went with the secret optional ingredient of Tamarind paste. Then I finished cooking And canned…

  • My First Brisket!

    My First Brisket!

    I had been wanting to do brisket for a very long time, but I couldn’t find anywhere convenient to buy a whole packer brisket. But right before I was convinced I was going to have to go to a butcher, Costco decided to carry them. Yeah, it was 20 lbs, which is ridiculous for what…

  • Mother’s Day Prime Rib Roast

    For the first time in a few years, my mom was going to be in town for Mother’s Day. We didn’t have a ton of events to attend or anything, so I asked her what she would like for dinner if she could have anything. She said she wanted prime rib, so I figured it…

  • Second Smoked Pork Shoulder

    Second Smoked Pork Shoulder

    This past winter I smoked a pork shoulder for the first time. I learned some lessons, continued to work on getting better with my kettle, and decided it was time for pulled pork again. I cut the pork shoulder into roughly equal halves. I had three things I wanted to experiment with: Would it cook…

  • Grilled Fajitas

    Just using the Weber Kettle mom got me last winter to make some AWESOME fajitas!

  • Making BBQ for my Employees

    Making BBQ for my Employees

    As a manger, I’m often thinking of ways to show my employees how much I appreciate their hard work. Recently, while watching a Meathead video, I saw his quote at the end that cooking for someone is an act of love. And love is not far off from appreciation so I figured I’d ask my…

  • First Smoked BBQ Pulled Pork

    First Smoked BBQ Pulled Pork

    Long-time readers of my blog will know that while I’ve been working at mastering my grills for a few years now, it was in 2016 that I decided I would take my BBQ to the next level. Back in June I smoked baby back ribs for the first time. Then I realized that I wanted…