Newb from Cali... But, I bring Qview!!

[sprayking]

Hey guys Hows everyone?!! I stumbled on this forum and have to say its been great!! I have been smoking for years on everything from webers, ECB's, New Braunfels, BGE, and such. Just never looked online much for much about smoking til now. I was looking at char-grillers and wanted to know more about them and looked up mods for them and stumbled. Really great to see a wealth of info on Char-griller. I pretty much have made my decision between that and the MES. ECB has been my smoker of choice the past few years, before I had a New braunfels offset and loved it. So I wanted to go back to offset and seen how cheap the char griller and the MES was so then then the price/features battle was on!! Anyways its great to read about some smoking mods and such. I learned the ECB mods myself years ago and that thing doesnt get the credit it deserves sometimes, I know I am in california and the weather is nice but most of the time that little bullet is set it and forget it also, I can cool it or stoke it pretty quick too with ease. and it has turned out some out of this world Q. Well here are a few pics from tonites smoke, Just thighs and a sausage!! I forgot to show beer in hand.

and some finished product

all you need is a therm and a beer

 

[caveman]

Welcome newb. You got a name & location there? I have a char griller. Check the link in my sig. If you have any questions fire them off. Maybe I can be an expert for you in that area as I am still new to smoking myself. Have fun. People around here are the friendliest I have ever come across on a forum.

 

[scarbelly]

Welcome to SMF - Nice Qview - glad to have you here with us

 

[richoso1]

Thanks for the introduction, and welcome to the SMF. Looks like your on a great start. It's all good my friend.

 

[seenred]

Howdy, and welcome aboard! Its good to have ya here. BTW thanks for the qview! You're off to a great start

 

[beer-b-q]

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[treegje]

Welcome to the SMF, We are glad to have you onboard

 

[smokingriley]

Welcome to SMF. There is a lot of great people and knowlege here. Nice Q-View to start things off!

 

[acemakr]

Welcome to the SMF. Glad you found us. I, too, have an ECB but with not nearly the mileage your's has.

 

[ronp]

Welcome aboard.

 

[chef jeff tx]

Howdy, welcome to the SMF!!

 

[mama's smoke]

Welcome to SMF. Wow, having a first post that includes Qview? You're off to a great start.

 

[etcher1]

Welcome to the SMF forum, You came to the right place. Good people and good info.

 

[mballi3011]

First off welcome Spray to SMF. It sounds like you are well on your way to be an outstanding new member of this fine site. You'll like it here cause there are abunch of good folks here that would just love to help you out with just about anything to do with smoking. We really like to have newbies here because they can bring in a new propective to how things are done. There's nothing like a new set of eyes to give and new way to make things that little differant to make things alittle better. So I hope you know about the Qview here.
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Here's a link to photobucket it's free and easy to download pictures. Then if your really new to smoking Look up the E-course.
http://www.smokingmeatforums.com/for...play.php?f=127
It's also free and it will give you the basics of smoking. So after all of that you just need to go grab something to smoke and if you have any question just post them here and we will answer it quickly so you don't have any mishaps with your smoke.
Welcome To Your New Addiction

 

[sprayking]

Thanks guys, Etcher- I just was in fayetteville over the summer in bella vista, Great place. Sircave- handle is Sprayking and I live in Santa Rosa CA. Acemakr- Yea, My ECB is very old and very seasoned and has a lot of miles but these things I think last forever!! I think I will be heading down to lowes this weekend and pickup the Char griller. Its under 170$ with the SFB and I think I will be fooling around with it soon. See if it is able to fill in the New Braunfels shoes. Its actually pretty thick and looks like it will keep good temps with some mods. Will be posting pics with the new smoker. Just hope that I dont spend 200 hundred and still use my ecb!! Thx ......

 

[denver dave]

Welcome aboard. You're gonna like it here.

 

[meateater]

Welcome to the SMF. Glad to have you here. Lots of good folks here and knowledge. Looking forward to your first qview.

 

[sweet chops bbq]

Welcome from So Cal...