Newbee from Arizona

azsmoke

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Hello all, new person here from Buckeye, Arizona, my name is Karl. I'm completely new to smoking, don't even have a unit yet, but plan to read through here to see if I can gain insight into a good beginner unit.

I've been grilling for a long time, and am an avid outdoors person. Just recently purchased a meat grinder to aid in processing my own wild game, so far have made regular venison hamburgers, chorizo, italian sausage, and breakfast sausage, and would love to smoke some summer sausage or snack treats. Also in reading the wild game section, I'm now very interested in smoking a deer shoulder or rump, but for now I think I'll start out with the easier items to get some learning under my belt.

Bear with me as I go along the learning journey.

Karl

 

jaxgatorz

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• Aug 28, 2009

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Welcome to smf.. Lots of great peeps here to learn from. Happy smokes !!

 

irishteabear

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• Aug 28, 2009

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Welcome to SMF, Karl. Glad you joined us. We're all still on a learning journey.

 

richoso1

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Hello karl, and welcome to the SMF. I hope you enjoy reading all the great information available to you. It's all good my friend.

 

desertlites

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hello Karl from a little south-around the Marana area-I smoke with a couple ECB's and a home job.as a starter I reccomend a ECB (charcoal) type.and go from there.there cheap.alot of great people here and info.Welcome to SMF and glad u found us.

 

beer-b-q

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Welcome, Glad to have you with us. This is the place to learn, lots of good info and helpful friendly Members.

Be sure to check out Jeff's 5Day Smoking Basics eCourse, you can find it here it's "FREE"...5 Day e Course

Everyone here enjoys seeing the qview so be sure to post plenty of pics.

 

cowgirl

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• Aug 28, 2009

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Karl, welcome to the forum! I'm fond of wild game too. Looking forward to your input here.

 

shawnr5

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Welcome from the other end of the Valley (Queen Creek.) This is a great site and a wonderful resource.

 

the iceman

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• Aug 29, 2009

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Greetings from Mesa.

 

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Welcome to your new addiction.

 

fire it up

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• Aug 29, 2009

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Welcome to the site Karl.
Great to see folks from AZ on here, makes me miss that place.

 

shawnr5

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rodzzilla

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Welcome from another newbie.

 

cruizer

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• Aug 29, 2009

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Welcome Karl from southeastern Arizona. Mt Graham is my back door.

 

azsmoke

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• Aug 29, 2009

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Thanks everyone, just checked out the 5day ecourse, and picked up standing gas grill, figured it would be easier to keep a consitent temperature, as my experience with managing coals is very limited. If I can get good results with this, then I'll migrate to the coals and see where it goes from there.

I'm really enjoying all of the information that is shared on this site, from temps, to rubs, recipes, I can't wait to try some of them out.

Thanks again for the welcome, hope to post something soon.

Karl

 

mballi3011

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• Aug 30, 2009

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First off welcome Carl to SMF. You already know how good the place is so I'm glad you came out of the darkness and saw the light. We are always glad to have new people here cause they might just look at things and little differant then we do and that always make for some really differant way to do things. I hope you have the how to's and what if's on the whole Qview thing and if not go here:
http://www.smokingmeatforums.com/for...ad.php?t=58920
and it will show you how to post pictires so we can see what your smoking on and with and what your smoking. So hurry and go get something to smoke.
Welcome To The Addiction

 

tacman

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• Aug 30, 2009

• #17

Hey Karl,

From one outdoorsman to another....Welcome to the SMF!

 

thomasyoung

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• Sep 11, 2009

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Welcome to SMF!! I’m so happy you decided to join us.

Tom