Hi from the DC area!

[SunnyDC]

Hi all! I'm Sunny. I'm from Memphis, and I LOVE BBQ. But I live in the DC area now.

^^ This should explain how I came to be here at Smoking Meat Forums, at least to anyone who's tried to get decent BBQ pork around these parts!

(Seriously, there can't be ONE place in driving distance that gets it right? I wound up sending a plate of "Memphis style pulled pork" back to the kitchen in a restaurant one night because I thought they had accidentally served me the chicken plate... 'nuff said. Yuck.)

Soooo... since I no longer have a big honkin' smoker or the space to build myself a proper pit or smokehouse, I finally got fed up and learned to smoke a pork butt in my plain old charcoal kettle grill. It took a bit of trial and error to get it like I like, but I loved every minute of the process, and now I'm obsessed with learning to smoke more meatsy things!

As I went a-Googling to prepare for my first attempt at making tasso ahead of my birthday, which conveniently falls on Mardi Gras this year, I stumbled across this site... and wow, there is a ton of useful info here and it looks like a fun community, so here I am. :)

Please forgive my rambling intro, and pardon me now while I go dark for a while so I can read threads obsessively and start planning more projects than I will know what to do with!

Glad to be here!

 

[SonnyE]

Hi Sunny,
Welcome to

You might want to consider going electric.
Go Electric, with an AMNPS, and a small fridge for Beer.
Then you can make your Pork yourself, and do it right!

 

[gmc2003]

Welcome to the site, happy to have ya join the fun. I use my kettle for allot of my smokes especially in the winter.

Chris

 

[flatbroke]

Welcome to the site. look forward to seeing your cooks

 

[kruizer]

Welcome to SMF from Minnesota.

 

[Bigtank]

Welcome from IOWA

 

[dcecil]

Welcome to the site, maybe you could be the next big smoke guru in DC LOL Glad you joined us

 

[SunnyDC]

Hi Sunny,
You might want to consider going electric.
Go Electric, with an AMNPS, and a small fridge for Beer.
Then you can make your Pork yourself, and do it right!

I am as yet a wood or charcoal snob, but who knows... maybe I can be converted! Got the beer fridge, though, no worries... I didn't come up here *that* unprepared! :)

 

[SunnyDC]

Welcome to the site, happy to have ya join the fun. I use my kettle for allot of my smokes especially in the winter.

Chris

I was out grilling (though not smoking) in 12"+ of snow this past weekend, which is saying something for this southern girl. Brr! :)

 

[SunnyDC]

Welcome to the site, maybe you could be the next big smoke guru in DC LOL Glad you joined us

Thanks! And I'm gonna be working on that for sure! ;)

 

[HalfSmoked]

Welcome I close to you I'm on the other side of the big ditch (Md Eastern Shore) Glad to have you join us as you have seen there are a lot of great guys and gals on here with tons of info.

Warren

 

[SunnyDC]

Welcome I close to you I'm on the other side of the big ditch (Md Eastern Shore) Glad to have you join us as you have seen there are a lot of great guys and gals on here with tons of info.

Warren

Thanks! We are in your neck of the woods pretty often... that's some good kayaking country! :)

 

[Bearcarver]

Welcome Sunny!!
Good to have you here!!

Bear

 

[SunnyDC]

Welcome Sunny!!
Good to have you here!!

Bear

Thank you! :)

 

[HalfSmoked]

Thanks! We are in your neck of the woods pretty often... that's some good kayaking country! :)

Have you kayaked Tuckahoe State Park area down the Tuckahoe to Hillsboro landing. If so you were in my backyard.

Warren

 

[Bearcarver]

Have you kayaked Tuckahoe State Park area down the Tuckahoe to Hillsboro landing. If so you were in my backyard.

Warren

Hey Warren,
With all the Rain we've been having, I can believe people actually can Kayak in your back yard!!

Bear

 

[HalfSmoked]

Damn close to it I have waterfront I didn't have to pay for.

Warren

 

[SunnyDC]

Have you kayaked Tuckahoe State Park area down the Tuckahoe to Hillsboro landing. If so you were in my backyard.

Warren

Not yet... but this is literally on our list! Even though it's almost exactly due east of us, we've not actually been up that far north in our travels -- so far (we've had the boats for four seasons, but back surgery took me out of commission for one of those) we've explored points south and (far) west of there. Maybe this will be the season! We're cabin camping this weekend, but no kayaks... I'm not that acclimated to the winters up here yet! :)

 

[HalfSmoked]

In May they have one from Greensboro Md. to Denton Md. a 7 mile run.

Back surgeries don't need to bring up been there done that 5 times.

Warren

 

[Jeff Wright]

Welcome to the site Sunny. Great wealth of info here. You part of the shutdown? Wish I were, would like the smoking time.

Be sure to share your work.