When I built my first house I purchased an $1100 stainless steel gas grill that rusted out after about 4 years. Swearing to never buy an expensive grill again I bought a $300 gas grill that rusted out after 3 years.
The myth of charcoal takes too long had been ingrained at youth, my dad being a cheap gasser kinda guy.
Then about five years ago a friend introduced me to a tool known as a charcoal chimney and lump charcoal which dispelled all the myths about cooking with charcoal and how "long it takes to prepare the coals"
So being at our lobster dock from 4am-6pm I don't have a lot of time to secure lunch so most days it was fast food-subs, burgers, pizza with a bag of chips. Usually costing around $10
I bought a Smokey Joe and started cooking at the dock. I'd run to the grocery store at 9am, buy whatever protein was on sale and fire up the SJ.
Quickly discovering that often times for under $10 you could buy enough food to feed two or three guys. So after a month or so of feeding my fishermen as they came in one of them gifted me a beat up black OTG. Then I joined he Barbeque Brethren which is a great resource for recipes and asking questions you might have about smoking and different BBQ techniques.
Then I discovered this place and the grill restoration guides were just awesome. When I used a razor scraper and steel wool to clean up that Black OTG to 85% of new condition I was hooked.
I couldn't believe that there was something that someone gave away was that useful, produced such great food, was so timeless, which parts were so readily available for. So then, after coming here multiple times a day selling off the gassers in the yard I got the bug, the search, the clean ups. What people probably don't get is how much I enjoy he clean up process, bringing something that had layers of crud on to looking so beautiful.
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