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I don't think the rancher adds anything to the smoke. I forgot to add smoke wood on a cook about a month ago. In my opinion there was zero smoke flavor and zero smoke ring. Everyone has their own opinion though. The only thing I notice is when I walk up near the smoker I smell the butts or...

I have a Stihl 046 with a 24 inch bar and about 4 chains. Sorry but that is a bit far for me to drive. That must have been some storm to take down trees of that size.

There was a guy in one of these rancher discussions that said he worked in an HD warehouse. That was a couple of months ago but he said they had a lot in the warehouse. I'd say if you want some it is worth a look.

I am not a fan of hickory since I oversmoked some ribs some years ago. My staples are oak and cherry. Which works out nice as oak and cherry are staples growing in the area. I love pecan. I have to buy that though so I don't use as much as I could. I like sugarmaple real well along with apple...

I don't remember who posted it but I read about that about 2 years ago. The only time I don't use the side burner is when I am out of gas.

You got any wood working equipment? An electric miter box works great. I cut the wood to 2-3 foot lengths, 2 it it is big diameter. The big stuff gets hit with the maul to nice sizes. Last I take and cut it with the miter box to fist size chunks. I cut off both ends that got hit with the chain...

Wow I didn't know I had a secret that I could share. Glad to help. When I first got my wsm I didn't do a whole lot of trimming but left the fat cap. When I opened my BBQ shack I started taking the fat cap off. Made the pulling part a bit easier. After a few months I started leaving it again...

I have went over by a day on the cure before without any difference results. I have had a couple of flats that the normal cure didn't penetrate to the center. The pastrami had a brown rectangle in the center. I wouldn't worry about it. If you are nervous rinse it Saturday. I would definately...

I had to goto HD today and get a couple of wing nuts. I said I wasn't going to buy any rancher. I walked in and passed by the pallet and there was only 4 bags left. I couldn't resist it was only 4 bags. On the way to check out one of the guys in the commercial sales asked if I had ever used...

I have tried the pam for grilling a couple of times. I couldn't see any difference so I don't bother anymore. I definately take a spatula and slide under the butts to loosen them up. I used to take off the fat cap but found a lot of meat stuck to the grate. Now I put the fat cap side on the...

I went to HD yesterday to get a couple of outlet covers. It was a different one so I did a search and low and behold I found about a 1/3 of a pallet of rancher. I couldn't help myself, I bought 6 more bags.

I was working out of town the past few days. I stoped by the HD and looked high and low for more rancher. None left there apparantly. I sent my email to HD. Yea got the semi canned response. I hope everyone here is sending an email. I sure would like to buy this next year.

For me pork is no sauce, but on the side. Beef on the other hand usually gets coated with sauce.

Boy I don't know what you do for it to burn up fast. I get about 8 more hours out of a bag of rancher than K. I am a regular K user. I won't be going back to it anytime soon either. I got about 60 bags to tide me over for a while.

I run a BBQ shack. I use one full bag in the magnum on thursday night. Usually doing somewhere between 4-6 butts and usually a chuck roll. Half bag goes in Sat starting with ribs, later wings and pig wings go on. Same on sunday. Some weekends I do meatloaf or something extra. So definately 2...

I hear that. I bought $100 worth when it dropped to $3.74 and did the same when it dropped to $2.99. Plus I had a few sitting around before all that happened. Sitting on about 60 bags right now. I use 2-3 bags a week. I definately won't make it to spring.

Even at the regular 4.99 price it is a killer deal, if you take into account that a 20# bag burns signifigantly longer than Large K. I bought this all summer at 4.99 a few bags at a time instead of K. I missed the deal at memorial day, by a day. I thought it was on all week.

I have used maple. It is nice mellow not real smoky. I love it on ribs. A piece or 2 of hickory/pecan/oak and several more pieces of maple make some good ribs. A couple of years ago I got some green sugar maple and used it well before drying out. It was killing me to try it. I had about 3...

I just picked up 33 more bags at the $2.99. I little story about Rancher. I have a BBQ shack I open on the weekends. I normally cook my butts and chuck roll on thurs evening and take off friday. I had a big catering job this weekend and decided to start early to have friday to work on other...

Success. I went to HD on a search and destroy. The Rancher wasn't in the same spot as last week. I found the pallet and it still looked like it had about the same amount of bags as it did when I bought the 24. Rancher was marked $2.99 a bag and decided I was going to get 30 bags. I had my...