So tired of sexism.

[johnmeyer]

I made my own sausage a couple times but my butcher makes the best sausages and they are fairly affordable too...so right there with ya!

BUT - grinding your own burger is a game changer! I can hardly stomach buying ground beef now. I grind it medium course and choose the cut and fat content. the taste is SO much better. So you may reconsider a grinder for that purpose.

I completely agree: the difference between hamburgers made from "ground beef" you get from the supermarket, and hamburgers made from beef you grind yourself is night and day.

As for sausage, a few months back I posted this:

Why Does Sausage Have Casing?

My point in that post is that for many uses, you only need the meat that is inside the casing and therefore, if you want to make your own, you don't need to get a stuffer. For instance, I'm making pizza tonight, and for the sausage, the first thing I'll do is cut open the casing and take out the meat. However, as I describe in that post above, I now realize I can make my own "sausage," but skip the step of stuffing it into casings. I get much better-tasting sausage, and it takes almost no time to create using my KitchenAid stand mixer grinder attachment.

 

[seenred]

PoukieBear - Don’t let the knuckle draggers get you down...it’s a sad thing that chauvinism and misogyny still exists in the 21st century. Thankfully, most if the male-types around this forum are a bit more enlightened. And I agree with what some of the other guys said...nobody could blame you if you set those small-minded men straight for not taking you seriously.

Glad you’re here...and welcome!
Red

 

[Rathog23]

Rathog23, why do you have your profile blocked, so it can't be seen by all ???

I didn't know it was blocked.
I'll have to look the settings over.

 

[normanaj]

If the food's good I couldn't give a $h!t who makes it.The stomach never discriminates!

 

[atomicsmoke]

I haven't been part of the smoking world for very long, and I just wanted to say to you all, YOU ALL ROCK!

I've been dealing with a bunch of losers in my local stores, all of them either ignoring me completely, or assuming that I'm shopping for my husband. Always asking me "What does your husband think?" "What preference does your husband have?" "What is he smoking this weekend?" and so forth.

I've got NONE of that here, and I really appreciate it! Thank you for accepting me as one of your own :)

Sorry PoukieBear, but i don't see it your way.

Let me start by saying that i have two daughters and i want them to live in a world that does not limit their opportunities because of their gender.

Currently grilling, smoking, bbq-ing is done mostly by men. They are not better at it than women. Is just the numbers. Admins can do a querry and tell us the % of men here.

The bbq store guys just assumed you shopped for your husband. Many women do (my wife too). Is that sexism? I don't think so. Once you tell them you do the smoking are they condescending? If yes, they do have a problem.
Ofcourse you get treated like any other fellow smoker here since we all now you are into smoking. Tell the HW store you smoke and i am.pretty sure you'll get treated like any other customer.

 

[Workaholic]

You've got my support. You keep on smoking. Glad you found a butcher and supply store you like to deal with. My oldest daughter has to deal with similar issues in her line of work, as a welder. Unfortunately for the guys that give her crap, I was in the Navy whe raising her, and she learned from me a lot on how to stand up for herself. Not to mention several choice expressions that have turned a few of those guys red with embarrassment. You put those people in their place, and they won't ask those silly questions anymore.

 

[Carvendive]

Ignore them. There will always be preconceived judgments. Humans are humans. (Makes me wonder though, maybe the guy supplying me with food smoking supplies pictures me, back home, doing my thing, with a mental image of Lil' Abner)

 

[bbqbrett]

I haven't been part of the smoking world for very long, and I just wanted to say to you all, YOU ALL ROCK!

I've been dealing with a bunch of losers in my local stores, all of them either ignoring me completely, or assuming that I'm shopping for my husband. Always asking me "What does your husband think?" "What preference does your husband have?" "What is he smoking this weekend?" and so forth.

I've got NONE of that here, and I really appreciate it! Thank you for accepting me as one of your own :)

That is annoying I am sure. Take heart though as more women seem to be getting into smoking so hopefully those perceptions will change.

When I first started getting into smoking I really didn't know what I was doing but I had pretty much the opposite happen a couple of times when I was out looking at smokers and shopping for supplies and such. Ran into some women in the store who were asking me questions as nobody that worked there was around. They must have assumed since I was a guy I knew what I was doing. At the time I couldn't help them much but I did tell them to come check this site out.

 

[atomicsmoke]

"They must have assumed since I was a guy I knew what I was doing."
---
Reverse sexism.

 

[chopsaw]

Not afraid to use it in her favor . I agree Zip . Please get rid of this .

 

[6GRILLZNTN]

If I treated a female customer that way, I can GUARANTEE my mother would somehow find out about it, and I would hear about it for days. Growing up, the grocers and butchers always knew who to talk to, and it wasn't my father.

 

[pineywoods]

I happen to know some of our female members are not treated like men on this site by some people and I'm sure in stores as well.
Let's keep the comments decent and not insult others

 

[WI_GameMeats]

I think most of us fellas here would say we learned at least half of our techniques from our mothers. I know I sure did. I wouldn't know anything about prep work without her. You do you Poukiebear. Glad to have you here.

I would 100% agree my friend.

 

[HalfSmoked]

Sorry for such a late reply but I see a lot of great comments here to you and some not so great. What I can say is don't give in to this type of nonsense stand your ground you are a customer and for that they should be glad. What ever thoughts they have about you should be done in the back room in silence with their self. A customer is first and foremost in the success of any business without them you would not be in business.

Warren

 

[HalfSmoked]

PoukieBear Thanks for the like it is appreciated.

I don't get this gender thing and there is a post again this morning that brings it up. Why??? People are people a cook is a cook so what does gender have to do with it?

Warren

 

[PoukieBear]

Well, to be fair, this hobby is mostly a sausage fest (pun intended). LOL But it's always a little shocking when it's you personally being affected. I'm a great cook, and no one questions it when I browse through any kitchen department in any store.
But browsing the BBQ section?...I totally must be lost...

A few of my other girlfriends get this all the time too. One is a mechanic, and the other is a tool and die maker.

 

[bluewhisper]

So PB, what's your cooking background?

We're all smokers/grillers here. I'm a corn-fed chilehead, camp cook and former restaurant prep cook.

 

[PoukieBear]

So PB, what's your cooking background?

We're all smokers/grillers here. I'm a corn-fed chilehead, camp cook and former restaurant prep cook.

I'm a baker, through and through. :)

I grew up in farm country, with no babysitter or daycare available. To keep us occupied during the summer, our daily chore was to bake something. My dad would bring home something every day for us to bake up into something the next day.
Apples, berries, zucchinis, peaches, fresh cream and butter...the list is endless. My mother taught us the basics of baking pies and cakes and muffins and tarts, everything under the sun! Then she left the rest up to us. We started entering baking contests at local fairs, and always came in the top 3. Which always made the little old grannies mad, being beating by a 9 and 11 year old little girls. teehee

Fall brought in more vegetables than we could handle, so we started canning and preserving. The only things I can now though are peaches, bread and butter pickles, and some strawberry jam. The rest is just so much work!

To this day, I can still bake an award winning cake, blindfolded. Let me see if I can load some pics.


















The only BBQ'ing that was done at our house was always way over cooked, and not even chewable. My parents thought that chicken needed to be cooked for at least 3 hours. Pork chops should be black, and god forbid a steak have any trace of pink left in it! Thankfully I didn't pick up on an of those terrible lessons.

 

[HalfSmoked]

Dang now you show all those goodies and my birthday was last month.

Warren

 

[noboundaries]

What a fantastic post!