The Beginning

So, how did I start this adventure? Well I own a lot of what I know and my desire to start smoking to two individuals (S. O. and S.M.) both of which will be credited for their contributions as this blog progresses. The first, S.O. started smoking before I did and tweaked my interest. He started with a smoker box for a backyard grill.

We had a contest (actually I was just learning about smoking anything See the Rib Cook-Off) to see who could smoke the best Baby Back ribs. The problem we had was it was about 100 degrees that day and it was impossible to keep our grills at the appropriate temp to smoke! We kept turning off the grills and firing them back in an attempt to keep the temp at 200 - 225. As you can see in this picture

The end results while making a decent presentation were a little over done. However I had never tasted anything as good as these ribs (oh yea, S.O. placed first in the contest and I placed second. Those were the only entries)

What this did was to really get my interest going in smoking and as you will see in the coming blogs I have made some good progress with much more to follow.

Cheers
Randy