| View previous topic :: View next topic |
| Author |
Message |
hog feathers
All-Star
Joined: 31 Jan 2008
Posts: 129
Location: Media, PA
|
 Posted: Thu May 22, 2008 3:40 pm Post subject: Lessons learned |
 |
|
What are some of the lessons that you've learned out of stupidity?
Last week I was cooking for a party and was asked to reserve space to smoke about 150 ABT's that they were making for appetizers. I cook with a three shelved, Meadow Creek TS250. Without thinking I left the top rack open for the ABT's.
The cheese from the ABT's melted and left blotches all over the 8 slabs of ribs and six chicken halves I had on the rack below them.
After covering with finishing sauce, I don't think anyone noticed, at least, nobody said anything.
I have to ask myself: What was I thinking?
_________________
TS250
Carolina Pig Roaster
(2) WSM's
Weber Kettle |
|
| Back to top |
|
 |
ChristyQ*
Overpaid Broadcaster
Joined: 17 Feb 2008
Posts: 344
Location: Springfield,Virginia
|
| Posted: Thu May 22, 2008 6:14 pm Post subject: |
|
|
Um...You have proably beatin yourself up enough over this, chalk it up as a lessoned WELL!! learned . I'm sure everything was lovely  but cheese does melt right   I won't tell anyone it will be a secret
_________________
Peace & BBQ
VA BBQ PIRATES
ChristyQ* |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
VA BBQ PIRATES
Overpaid Broadcaster
Joined: 29 Jan 2008
Posts: 411
Location: Springfield, VA
|
| Posted: Fri May 23, 2008 5:58 am Post subject: |
|
|
Yum - Cheese on ribs. You are my hero! That sounds even better than chocholate & peanut butter. I wonder if cheese based BBQ sauce would be legal for comps - if I remember it just says no chunks.
<p>
I learned a lesson about my Weber wok, and the flash point of oil. It was an impressive fireball but I have vowed never to do it again.
Tom
_________________
www.bbq-pirates-va.com |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
Big Ugly BBQ
Overpaid Broadcaster
Joined: 26 Feb 2008
Posts: 386
Location: Perryville, MD
|
| Posted: Fri May 23, 2008 6:27 am Post subject: |
|
|
Mine lesson learned is with my Smokin Pro's, never turn into the wind to improve the air flow on the side of a hill.
Turned into a jet engine on afterburner! 
_________________
Chris
CBJ #24810
Caldera TallBoy
Char-Griller Smokin Pro (2)
Pretty much any other toy I can find
"The higher up the flag pole you are, the more your butt shows." Roger Clements, 2008
www.biguglybbq.com |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
Pig Pen BBQ
Benchwarmer
Joined: 15 Feb 2008
Posts: 36
Location: Yardville, NJ
|
| Posted: Mon May 26, 2008 6:44 am Post subject: |
|
|
Hey Mark,
Maybe you've started a new fad!!!!!........."Mark's Cheese Ribs"......$30 per rack.
Rich at Pig Pen
_________________
"Airborne, all the way !" |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
rag
GM
Joined: 11 Jan 2008
Posts: 203
Location: Berks County, Pa.
|
| Posted: Mon May 26, 2008 4:20 pm Post subject: |
|
|
| Pig Pen BBQ wrote: |
Hey Mark,
Maybe you've started a new fad!!!!!........."Mark's Cheese Ribs"......$30 per rack.
Rich at Pig Pen |
Advertised as "Mark's Cheesy Ribs". 
_________________
Gasser
Charcoal grille
Meadow Creek TS250 |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
Jason - 3 Eyz
Site Admin
Joined: 10 Jan 2008
Posts: 260
|
| Posted: Mon May 26, 2008 7:23 pm Post subject: |
|
|
Throw some chopped jalapeno on them and call them ABRs... Atomic Buffalo Ribs.
_________________
3 Eyz BBQ
PO Box 2405
Elkton, MD 21922
www.3eyzbbq.com |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
Pig Pen BBQ
Benchwarmer
Joined: 15 Feb 2008
Posts: 36
Location: Yardville, NJ
|
| Posted: Tue May 27, 2008 8:49 am Post subject: |
|
|
Hi All,
I have to support Mark's request for lessons learned out of stupidity. I hope this nightmare never happens to anyone ever again.
Two years ago Connie & I enlisted to cook lunch for three hundred military & civilian volunteers at the Vietnam Veterans "Moving Wall" down in Columbia, SC. We were to do the same menu for two consecutive days...pulled pork, rolls, corn bread, coleslaw, beans & potato salad, all on us.
My Army unit, The "173rd Airborne Association" headquatered in SC was in charge & I really wanted to give something back as I live far away and am unable to help then in all the good stuff they do.
So it was that in the pouring rain, wind & cold at 3am on Sat morning my two Backwoods Fatboys were puffin away both packed to the hilt with pork butts that were starting to look beautiful. I always spray them with apple juice as they cook. So here we were as I opened the door, grabbed my spray bottle and went to work....after three big sprays Connie screamed as I dropped the bottle of "Greased Lighting" from my hand and for the first time since combat almost cried....! All was lost as we dumped 15 pork butts into a dumpster. If this was a comp I could have just withdrawn but it was not. I hosed out the hot cooker and waterpan, (that was a steam bath!) and fortunally we had already prepped other butts and got them on.......we made the serving with 15 mins to spare.
I had left the greased Lighting on top of the cooker after polishing up the doors, (to impress my army buddies).
Lesson Learned: Never leave anything not edible near your cookers or worktable!!!
Rich the idiot to Pig Pen
_________________
"Airborne, all the way !" |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
Free Forum
|
|
| Back to top |
|
|
|
FAQ
Search
Memberlist
Usergroups
Register
Profile
Log in to check your private messages
Log in
