newb from washington

[jsmith78]

First of I just want to say what an awesome site. I have learned so much from Jeff's ecourse, blogs and this forum. I love eating BBQ, my wife got me hooked on watching BBQ Pitmasters on TLC. The more I watched the more I wanted to create awesome BBQ for myself (and wife also). I have an ECB with a few mods to it need to add some more. I just picked up a char griller with out the SFB and no fire grate/ash pan, but reading some of the mods in the Forums I can make it work.

Keep on Smokin
James

 

[rdknb]

Let me welcome you to SMF it is a great site

 

[mr mac]

Welcome to the SMF James! Lots of great learning here within these walls!

 

[bassman]

Welcome to the forum. You may be able to pick up a firebox from Lowes. Keep us posted.

 

[chef jeff tx]

Howdy, welcome to the SMF!!

 

[captsly]

Welcome to SMF, this forum is great! Alot of support and good advice from people that are in the know!

 

[treegje]

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

 

[jjwdiver]

The bus just keeps getting filled and thats a good thing! Welcome to SMF James!

 

[pineywoods]

James welcome to SMF glad you decided to join us. Theres lots of info here as well as some great recipes. Have fun and happy smoking

 

[seenred]

Hello James, and welcome to the SMF family! Its good to have ya here.

 

[richoso1]

James, you sound really excited about smoking, so joining the SMF was the right thing to do. It's all good my friend.

 

[jsmith78]

I am excited I have done a few spareribs, turned out ok. They had a nice smoke flavor to it. The guys at work really liked it, but all they got was a sample (wife and I ate the rest). Trying to decide what I should smoke on saturday? My local lowes has the sfb for 69 bucks will try to get that in a month

 

[mballi3011]

First off welcome James 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.
http://www.smokingmeatforums.com/for...ad.php?t=58920
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

 

[etcher1]

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

 

[nwbhoss]

Welcome to another West coaster

 

[smokingriley]

Welcome to SMF! You came to the right place. There is a lot of good people and great knowlege here.

 

[beer-b-q]

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[font=&quot]Welcome to SMF, Glad to have you with us. This is the place to learn, lots of good info and helpful friendly Members.[/font]

[font=&quot]For Those of you New to Smoking, be sure to check out Jeff's 5 Day Smoking Basics eCourse.[/font]
[font=&quot]Click Here it's "FREE" ... 5 Day eCourse[/font]

[font=&quot]I Would Highly Suggest Reading these posts on Food Safety by bbally. [/font]

[font=&quot]This thread will tell you basically everything you need to know and the man explaining it is[/font]
[font=&quot]both a ServSafe Instructor and a HACCP Instructor.[/font]
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[font=&quot]Here you can get the 2009 USDA Food Safety Guide from his site.[/font]
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[font=&quot]How to post Qview to Forum:[/font]

[font=&quot]When you uploading to Photobucket I always use the Large IMG setting, 640 x 480 it is a nice size...[/font]

[font=&quot]Everyone here enjoys seeing the Qview so be sure to post plenty of pics...[/font]

[font=&quot]Large ones that us old people with bad eyes can see.[/font]

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[font=&quot]For Step By Step Instructions On Posting Qview Check Out This Tutorial[/font]

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[nwdave]

Hey, welcome to a fellow Washingtonian. If I may be so bold to ask, where in Washington do you call home? There's quite a few of us who call the Pacific North West home on this site. That's a great buy on the side fire box. Is it the "Lil Tex from Char Grill"? My Lowes wants 99 bucks for it. Just added one to my GOSM (secret squirrl stuff). It's a great setup.

~Dave