smokin' newbie from SE Minnesota

[bjreeser]

Hi everybody,
I'm Brad from Austin, MN - home to the famous SPAM Museum! Anyway, my wife and I lived in Memphis for a few years and grew to love Memphis BBQ. We have never owned a smoker, but we knew many people that smoked professionally, especially in the big Memphis in May competition held there! My wife loves to cook and learned how to prepare some good pulled pork and ribs in her kitchen while living there. However, we have always wanted to prepare it the real way with a smoker! We picked up a Brinkmann Smoke'n Pit over the weekend at a garage sale. So, we are wanting to start it up this week sometime! We don't know the first thing, however, about using a smoker or taking care of it. We have some hickory wood chips, but that is as far as we have gotten. Please give me any input you have! Thanks!

 

[beer-b-q]

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[jjwdiver]

Welcome to SMF from another SE Minnesotan! You will learn alot here and be prepared to spend alot of time reading! You're in a good town for cheap pork!!!!

 

[northern greenhorn]

Welcome to smf, check out Jeffs free 5 day course, very helpful, but you're also gonna learn a lot just by reading the posts on this great site

 

[pineywoods]

Welcome to SMF glad you decided to join us. Congrats on the new smoker. You'll find lots of good info and some great recipes here. Have fun and happy smoking

 

[lu1847]

Welcome from Winona......you'll love this site, lots of good advice and ideas.

 

[smoken yankee]

welcome to the site, I thought I knew alot about smoking (been doing it for 20 + years) and I'm learning something new each day. Glad to have ya.

 

[eman]

Welcome to the site and there are some post about doing modifications to the SNP . they will help alot .

 

[etcher1]

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

 

[mballi3011]

First off welcome Brad to SMF. 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

 

[treegje]

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

 

[smokingohiobutcher]

Welcome welcome welcome!!
SOB

 

[bill in mn]

A big hello from Monticello mn.Soon you'll be smoking up a storm . There are some great ideas and people on the site.Hello again.Bill

 

[markcp]

Welcome to you and your wife. Just west of Faribault here.

 

[earache_my_eye]

Welcome from an Iowa neighbor...Osage, that is. We get up to Austin now and again....nice town

L8r,
Eric