BBQ'ing in Texas

[Kevin]

My wife showed me this one. :D

 

[Bob Wright]

A gas grill and beef is Barbecueing in Texas?

Bob Wright

 

[turd]

We call that grilling around here. BBQ is reserved for the smoker. Looks like a small Costco T bone? :mrgreen:

 

[tinman]

Hey Bob, don't forget George's Fresh Memphis BBQ, over in Collierville.......one of my local favs when I am in town.

 

[Wyandot Jim]

We call that grilling around here. BBQ is reserved for the smoker. Looks like a small Costco T bone? :mrgreen:

Yep Kevin needs to work on his proper Texas Dialect. :D
We Smoke/BBQ BEEF Brisket and grill steak and hamburgers. And we don't eat pig, well maybe sometimes but we sure don't advertise it. :D :D
Looks to me like that steak is a dinner for ONE. :wink:

Texas Cooking 101
This is a smoker, the thing we put big cows in for a long time.


Pig

Cow


A typical BBQ dinner for 4 Texans



This is a grill, the thing we put little cows on for no more than 5 minutes.

 

[Kevin]

That’s some good looking grub Jim. And yeah, we don’t eat much pork.

My wife showed that picture I posted because I’m finally fed up with my current grill and am looking for another... Besides, since she isn’t traveling we have more time to cook outback these days. She’s liking my bbq more and more.

Plus it doesn’t help when you post pictures of that nice smoker you have. :D I’m actually thinking about a Lone Star Santa Maria grill. I’m not sure if I want one of their smokers, since we grill more than smoke.

I did email them and they are working these days. Which is nice to hear.

 

[Wyandot Jim]

This is the one I was going to order yesterday, but sad to say none in stock since Napoleon is shutdown. I have had my existing Napoleon Prestige Grill for 21 years and used it a lot but it is getting a little tired. So time for a new one. I like a gas grill that you can add wood chips to or use charcoal in it with add-ons.
This one fits the bill.
Napoleon Prestige PRO 665

 

[Jeepnik]

If it ain't charcoal it ain't BBQ. I'll let wood (not pellets) pass, but gas or (gasp) electric just doesn't do it. Half the battle is knowing how to control the heat for our desired outcome.

 

[Kevin]

That Napoleon grill looks awesome! I don’t know a whole lot about them, but they do have a good reputation.

 

[Valmet]

This thread is starting to make me hungry...

 

[coach]

We have bbq in MD too. Local restaurant has a motto to eat by.

 

[Wyandot Jim]

If it ain't charcoal it ain't BBQ. I'll let wood (not pellets) pass, but gas or (gasp) electric just doesn't do it. Half the battle is knowing how to control the heat for our desired outcome.

Yep back when I was younger I used to go to the woods and chop down a tree that I then drug to the house. Got the fire started by rubbing two sticks together. A lot of the time when I didn't want to walk 10 miles up hill both ways to get wood I would pick up Buffalo chips to cook with. Gives a new flavor of smoke to the meat. :wink: That is Buffalo S$it for you West Coast people. :D
Now that Texas got civilized I use gas that comes in a nice little white bottle when I want to eat the same day. I still use wood for the Cow that needs to smolder for a long time, That is what the smoker is for.
Just to be clear BBQ is done in a smoker. Grilling is done on a You Guessed it, on a grill.
OK Class lets go smoke something :D

 

[Colonialgirl]

OK Class lets go smoke something :D

CAREFUL !!!! :shock: :shock:
That might mean something different in Calif or to the younger bunch !!

:roll: :roll: :wink: :D :mrgreen:

 

[Poco Oso]

This thread is starting to make me hungry...

Starting ???

 

[Wyandot Jim]

Well Man Can Not live on BBQ alone. It is time for Mud Bugs
One thing about living on in an airpark you know and are friends with all your neighbors. Which means we don't need much of an excuse to cook and eat. :D :D

At times Yea got to have hamburgers for the Yankees

 

[bogus bill]

Nothing like fresh smoked carp out of a 55 gallon oil drum dad made into a smoker!

 

[powder smoke]

Don't need no dang burgers for this Yankee, be eating crawdads on steroids!
it's call lobster in these parts! Keep them crawdads South of the mason - dixie line!
We are all set! ps

 

[Wyandot Jim]

Have to agree with ya on Maine Lobster or Crawfish.
How is the industry holding up. I have heard since the restaurants are shutdown there is a glut of Lobster. If that is so UPS me a sack full. :D :D

 

[Kevin]

Nothing like fresh smoked carp out of a 55 gallon oil drum dad made into a smoker!

I've never tried smoked carp, but I used to live up in Northern MN, and the restaurant I worked at made smoked Walleye all the time. In my ever so humble opinion, Walleye is the absolute best fish for eatin'.

 

[Bull Barrel]

+1000 on fresh caught walleye!

I can't eat those crustacean things. I'm allergic. And I loves me some shrimp and oysters.
But I can eat scallops!
Now I wanna fire up the smoker....thinking a corned beef brisket...

 

[Colonialgirl]

Have to agree with ya on Maine Lobster or Crawfish.
How is the industry holding up. I have heard since the restaurants are shutdown there is a glut of Lobster. If that is so UPS me a sack full. :D :D

ME TOO !!
I cant afford Lobster in the super markets; not even the small "tails" they sell.

 

[bogus bill]

I was raised in Wisconsin. In 1962 I did six months on the state conservation dept assigned to the fishery's division.
I did stuff like rough fish removal, (carp), tagging sturgeon, research by netting, shocking, checking catch's etc.
They would always lay off us newbys at the end of six months or they had to hire us as permanents. When I got laid off the boss wanted me to come back in a few weeks and do another six months with the wardens. Something else that appealed to me came up so I didn't go back. Kind of wondered what my life would have been like had I.
Your right. Walleye`s are good eating!