.. who else knows the One Finger Smoker Salute!..

[mobcounty]

... I can't be the only one

 

[richoso1]

Been there and done that... free lifetime pass.

 

[walking dude]

like richo said......btdt...........its a right of passage in the cooking werld...

 

[ds7662]

Wait till the skin stays on the smoker

!

 

[bigal]

I've never done that

......on my finger anyway. Forearm looks like I was in a gang though.

 

[morkdach]

one finger mis understanding this was my salute to a coworker
http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii194/morkdach/DSC00413_edited.jpg

 

[charles1056]

I'm with bigAL, it was my forearm.

 

[coldjava]

smokin ribs = priceless

consuming mass quantites of beer = enjoyable

forgetting to put on glove to manage smoker = blistered fingers

in the end the ribs and beer was great and the fingers heal...LIFE IS GOOD!!!

 

[richtee]

My best was my nose. Heating up some lump and it popped..big ole cinder right on the end of the schnozz. YeeeOUCH.

 

[bwsmith_2000]

Painfully guilty.......

 

[bustedluckbarbq]

Looks like you grabbed a thermo probe.... i done that.... had finger and thumb...

 

[squeezy]

Done that once ... fortunately, I let go soon enough not to leave a blister .... I call it blind luck

 

[glued2it]

Just the other day I went to grab my surface thermo and well it was a good thing my hands were wet!

To look at something, you may not know hot it may be or possibly you forget. Now a thermometer, You know Exactly how hot it is!

 

[squeezy]

... after I did that I looked at the gauge and the

came on!
Yup! 200+º is HOT

 

[vlap]

I grabbed a 450 degree handle once. Had the pleasure of listening to my skin sizzle and to smell the smell of my cooking flesh... I have had more blisters than I can count from touching metal or gallons of steam enveloping my arm. Welcome to the world of a cook

 

[kookie]

I got close to having a blister on a couple of fingers when I went to open the front of my little cheif and I grabed the handle and forgot to put on a glove first. Luckly I let go before it burned enough to blister. But to all of those with the badge I salute you. I have worn the badge a few times from grilling and cook in the kitchen.

Kookie

 

[smok'n steve]

Should have let it on there a bit longer. Hmm, What would you baste it with.......

 

[nitrousinfected]

Have pulled that "probe grabbing trick" a couple of times, and it doesnt take very long to look at it.

 

[smokin for life]

The best one I ever done was, I pulled out the pan holding the wood chucks, (no I wasn't stupid enough not to use pliers) added my chunks and picked up the pan to put it back into the smoker. Yepper this time STUPID!!!!!

 

[dono]

first time smoking on my home made smoker, I had used a metal die cast handle for the fire box lid, I went to open the lid to add some more lump, no glove and the handle had melted but not fallen apart to drip to the ground it melted into my hand, my wife new I could swear with the best of them but, she never dreamed for how long and with how much veriaty :-)