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Operation BBQ Relief helps tornado victims - YouTube OBR Volunteers | Operation BBQ Relief One thing I learned about at the competition Saturday in Washington DC was Operation BBQ Relief. These volunteers go out to disaster areas and cook. They deployed to three locations after a series of...

I have always wondered what the difference is between Kosher salt and table salt. Well I went out to the Morton Salt web site and this is what I found. Plain table salt Kosher According to the Morton salt labels on the side, a 1/4 teaspoon of Kosher salt weighs 1.2 grams. This works out...

I shamelessly copied this recipe for turkey legs. Sounds like they are just brined for 12 hours, but the secret ingredient is Prague Powder #1. They are then smoked at 325 for 90 minutes, or when they come up to 160 inside. I think it can be a crowd pleaser! Chris

Brisket Rub This is the latest base recipe I am starting to work on. If it works well I will leave it as is. As time goes on, I might tweak it a little if the taste needs it. Rumor this is a Texas Style rub. I don't know Texas style cooking, but I have heard they do a pretty tasty brisket down...

Everybody came over for a big outdoor dinner this afternoon. Lodge cast iron hibachi burning Royal Oak lump with hickory chips. The propane tank fuels the weed burner I use to light the charcoal. They were quite fragile and required two spatulas to flip. This are half ponders stuffed...

I have this old gasser that serves as a grill, a warming oven, and a baking oven from time to time. I got a piece of granite that was scrap from a kitchen countertop and I put it on the top deck of the grill. My thoughts were that it would soak up a lot of heat and be very slow to cool down...

Its that time of year again and my task turns to the family ham. I quoted Roy Blount Jr.'s Hymn to Ham which I feel sums up my feelings on the subject. http://www.bbq-4-u.com/forum/f9/hymn-to-ham-14835.html Last year I cooked the ham in the oven and I used a slow cook technique. The results...

Melody got a 12 pounder from work for Thanksgiving. We had more turkey than we could consume that week so I wated till today to cook this hen. Last night I brined the bird in a solution of salt and water, 20 to 1 by weight. That is 2 gallons of water and 12.8 oz of salt. (256/20) and covered...

Two months ago we were splitting wood here and Geoff and Andy came by to help. I put a brisket in the egg early that morning. I put in some hickory on top and set it for slow (250-300) and forgot about it until around 5 that afternoon. I took it off and foiled it for about an hour. We then cut...

Instead of brining the chicken wings, I thought to myself: "Myself, soy sauce is really salty so maybe I can use it instead of brine on those wings." So I mixed up a batch of 50/50 olive oil and soy sauce, cut up the wings and put them in a Zip Lock bag to marinate for a little while...

I have been buying fine meats from Mr. Hoenigmenn for many years. He was an institution here in Northern Virginia . He will be missed.

...was a little slow getting done, so we decided to heat something else and let the chicken take its own sweet time. I think I am going to save it for the kids this week on sandwiches. FYI I took it straight fron the freezer to the egg. This was an experement to see how it tastes, without rub...

I have been making a NC style (Piedmont) sauce for years. It has always been good, but it has also been thin. So thin that it runs off the meat and settles in the center of the plate. Well no more. I thickened it last night with Arrowroot*, about a tablespoon per pint. I made the sauce then...

I hope you all have a great holiday this year. :D Chris

While we were coming back from Myrtle Beach after Thanksgiving, we stopped at Smithfield Chicken and Bar-B-Q for lunch. It is in Smithfield NC and on RT 301, not seen from RT95. It was good Q. The sauce was a vinegar/ketchup base with ground up hot peppers. I had the good fortune to have a...

Got some frozen ribs the you need to get on the cooker for that last minute gathering this afternoon? Put some warm water in some ziplock bags and press all the air out and lay them flat on that counter. Place the ribs on top and let them sit for about 20 minutes and the membrame side will...

My daughter Meredith got married to Andy a couple of weeks back. I got to do the father of the bride things, and it was a fine affair. They took off to Tennessee and North Carolina for a week honeymoon. I suggested they make sure to stop in Lexington, North Carolina to sample the Q there. This...

I stopped by our local BBQ restaurant today to get a bite of lunch and to say hi to my lovely bride, who was busy taking inventory to buy supplies for the next week. :wink: The place was busy, and there was a line out the door waiting to get in around 1 PM. One of the cooks was out...

I made the perfect chicken/fish rub for grilling. It is the best I have ever tasted. It browns beautifully on the surface of the meat. It has a subtle tase that builds in your mouth after an initial burst of flavor when you bite into the meat. I just didn't write down the proportions and...

OOH That Smell Nothing fancy, I just got home tired and threw in two thighs with some Ms Dash. I set the cooker at 325 and I am roasting them(thats why this is in GRILLING). They should be out in about an hour.

I just got one of these remote sensing thermometers. It reads the cooker temp as well as the internal meat temp. It is very accurate, I checked it with boiling water and it came up at 212 for the internal and 213 for the oven. You can set the cooker and take a nap and it will beep of the fire...

OK so I got the camera out this time, and snapped a few pictures of Saturday's cook. You could consider this a storyboard if you were planning to video this as a segment. There is a Wegman's that has opened up in the neighborhood, so we decided to drop by. They had some fresh chicken thighs...

I got home kind of late tonight. Melody was out doing errands so I started dinner. I found a couple of pork loin chops in the freezer. They were about two inches thick. I defrosted them in the microwave just enough to separate them. I then split them in half. I placed them in a zip lock bag...

Andy cooked two butts and six slabs of baby backs Friday night Saturday, for a get together with about thirty people. I arrived about three Saturday afternoon. Andy was in the kitchen pulling the butts and cutting up the ribs to serve. I was standing around outside. The aroma of the cooker...

Safeway's Tenth Annual National Capital BBQ Battle June 22-23 Pennsylvania Ave, NW, Washington DC link Anybody competing in this event? Andy and I are going to attend and I plan to take a lot of notes and some pictures and maybe I just might taste a little Q while I am there. :wink: