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I'd say I wish I'd known what I was doing, but where's the good stories in that? Really I wish I'd known the Minion method. IMO the honorable Jim Minion deserves a seat at the highest levels of BBQ Mythology along with Prometheus and George Stephen. It would be hard to argue anyone has done...

In truth I don't NEED anything other than the stock grate that came with the OTS, although the gourmet grate system does admittedly scratch at my imagination as to what else may be possible with the kettle...

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Tim, I hacked a vortex clone for CAD $16.00 while the pork was cooking yesterday. Trial run this week. Stay tuned!

Cast iron skillet for sure - Never buy a single use item unless absolutely necessary!

Cheap-*** picnic from the discount bin. 12 hours in mojo marinade then slow cooked for 8 hours indirect. Basic Minion method - no gadgets or accesories. No smoke other than the hardwood charcoal. Let it rest wrapped up in foil and a towel and left the vents open just enough to keep the fire...

Welcome back from another veteran!

Exactly this. Don't get too hung up on time and temperature. Briskets defy all reason. Each one has it's own personality and cooks differently. Impossible to cook to a schedule - a brisket is done when it feels like being done.

Got home about 6:30 after making what seemed like a dozen stops on the way last night, went to fire the grill and realized I had forgotten to stop for charcoal. There was about 10 or 12 briquettes left in my storage bin. What I should have done: Turned around, gone back out to the store and...

Many years ago the Pitmaster at Dinosaur BBQ in Syracuse resolutely informed me that all pits have their own personality and it is terrible luck to not recognize this by naming them. Following this sage advice, over the years I have had a Sputnik, R2D2, Bertha, and Humpty among others. It took...

Who knew Rube Goldberg was a BBQ man?

...and a bonus piece of country style thrown in the package. Stock OTS and no accessories or gadgets. No water pan or drip pan. One chimney full of unlit briquettes in a basic pile one one side with 10 lit ones sprinkled over the top. a tinfoil smoke pack on top of that and never touched the...

Here's my ash catcher hack. A $6.00 galvanized pail they were using at the liquor store to make gift baskets with. Hangs on the original spring clips and offers better capacity and safety when the wind picks up.

Nobody NEEDS a vortex. I hacked the same technique over the weekend with a cut down coffee can. Working on a more durable hack to test this weekend for CAD $20.00 Stay tuned...

Basic sauce with San Marzano tomatoes and garlic in the blender, sliced Mozza, basil and Pancetta on a pre made shell. 2/3 of a chimney grilled indirect, then spiun the grate to finish the bottom over direct heat. Not a masterpiece, but not bad for a regular old worknight supper.

This is the perfect answer.

I'm an old-school competitor so I don't have any relevant numbers to share, but my observation was always that a big part of over-spending is cooking waaaay too much meat. Remember it all comes down to six portions in a box. After you're dialed in with your recipe and technique you should be...

Smokin' Bargain!!!!!!!!!! I've cooked on everything from coffee cans to a custom Klose pit, and that kettle is all you need to cook anything. Don't listen to dissenters, don't get caught up buying gadget crap and just learn how to use it. There's a reason that a 60 year-old design is still...

While my OTS is admittedly all I need to cook almost anything, in the fantasy recesses of my imagination my dream kettle has cast iron grates.

Man, you folks south of the border get all the great sales!