Recent content by Smoke-Chem BBQ

I could have sworn I'd seen both names in common use, but in searching now I'm only seeing Santa Maria...so I fixed the thread title and my first post..

It’s fair to say we were both pretty surprised! But she didn’t react, just stood there watching me until I moved out of sight.

You need to lose the HOA and get the grill!

It's Huckleberry season in the northwest! Much like the great morel mushroom rush that occurs every spring, the hills are now alive with huckleberry pickers, humans and bears alike. There are a few huckleberry species that grow in North America, but the northwest huckleberry seems to be the...

I've no experience with it, maybe someone here has. Looks like the replacement filters run $26-$40 from the manufacturer, third party filters cheaper but who knows how good the quality control might be. It's a pretty small unit, so I'd expect the filters to have a shorter lifespan than the...

I've got a family member with respiratory issues, and North Idaho sees a lot of smoke (some Canadian, some home-grown) during fire season. So I've bought a couple of these air purifiers, and I can't recommend them highly enough. We started with one unit in the bedroom, but for $200 each, it...

I didn't fiddle with it much, but my impression was that it is solidly built. The mechanism to raise and lower the grate seemed well-made. Though I must admit, I've had almost no exposure to other Santa Rosa grills.

I was running into HD for some bits and pieces to complete a workbench I'm building, and saw they had 3 large Santa Maria grills out front. They appear to be a beast of a cooking machine, for $499. Not something we have room for, or for which we could ever make use of the full capacity, but...

I got to hear her open for the B-52s, sometime in the early to mid-80's.

Pitmasters is back! Looks like Big Moe Cason may be the only returning judge from the old series, but I'm looking forward to it just the same. The old series is what got me interested in competition BBQ, although Michael Symon's BBQ USA later did a better job of presenting BBQ completion...

I'm not still in the NE--I fled as soon as I retired. But when I still lived in NJ, I was a member of the Northeast BBQ Society. Good group. I highly recommend their Class and Cook, though I think it just wrapped up for this year. When we did it, Day 1 was learning to cook competition BBQ...

Third batch of the evening, right? :emoji_wink:

I hear you. We finally started keeping an inventory sheet taped to the lid. Nothing goes in or out without updating that sheet. That meal looks amazing!!

Hello from North Idaho!

I've never been to one as a spectator, only as a competitor, and a lot of competitions don't allow for food sales, since many/most teams don't have a food service license. Still, they're interesting to wander around; you can get a lot of ideas for cooking at home just from seeing the setups the...