This is why I invite people to a cook out not a BBQ.
What Does BBQ Mean To You?
- Thread starter Richmond B. Funkenhouser
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So ive wanted a .357 mag revolver for probably 15 years now. Decided, dang it Im going to buy one this year…started doing my research and everywhere “BBQ gun” kept coming up. That was the first time I’d ever heard that term. Learning experience there.
.357 is my favorite caliber, if I were to ever have a BBQ rig it would be built on the 4" S&W Model 19/66.
One style not mentioned is St. Louis BBQ - which means Pork Steaks - and it’s not basted, you Maull it - natives know what I mean. St, Louis natives refer to traditional bbq method as smoked. We don’t traditionally smoke the pork steaks unless you mean throwing a few wood chips on the charcoal. The pork steaks are traditionally served on white Wonder bread. I didn’t realize St. Louis style ribs were a thing until I left St. Louis. I just figured that is how everyone served their pork ribs.
St Louis cut spare ribs put baby back ribs to shame!
Barbecue is smoking meat. Barbecue is wood (or charcoal is acceptable) fired and smoked at lower temperatures than typical meat roasting in an oven (225-250 range is most typical). A key aspect of good Barbecue is smoking most meats way beyond USDA safe temps. I cook brisket and pork butt's to an internal temp of 205-210.
An overused term, mans nothing to me..and yet we have all these states claiming they have the "best BBQ". To me, it's nothing more than cooking meat outdoors on a grill. if you putt BBQ sauce on it or dip the meat in feel free to cal it "BBQ." That's it. I'm an old codger, we called everything grilling. There was grilling and smoking, that's it.
I was wondering why we had pictures of guns here...
A BBQ gun, never heard of such. Can't beat a thread with guns and meat though. All we need is a reason to post some beautiful women, and we'll have all the important things.
A BBQ gun, never heard of such. Can't beat a thread with guns and meat though. All we need is a reason to post some beautiful women, and we'll have all the important things.
Smoking is the only way to BBQ. I don't have a smoker, but it's on my list. I would love to have a smoker. My Webber grill works pretty well for now though. It's not the same though. I need a smoker.
I've lived all over the world and am currently a professional BBQ pit cook in Texas. You're all equally correct and clueless depending on where and when you are.
I like that....just friggin' call it a "Cook-out." The only other name would be "smoked." ...if someone is using their smoker and has the patience to "smoke" for upteem hours. God Bless em.
This "BBQ" term is just a "cook-out" with BBQ sauce on it.
BBQ is low and slow with smoke. Grilling is meat and sizzle. Both can be great or awful.
Like pizza there are many variations, but that’s a different discussion.
Like pizza there are many variations, but that’s a different discussion.
Sixty years ago in Humansville BBQ and grilling were completely unknown.
My beer drinking German uncle Ben, who’d been a cook during WW2, introduced me to a Weber kettle out on his deck in Kansas City and I innocently touched it,,,,once.
Upon our return to Humansville my mother had to have one of those BBQ grills like her sister, and she ordered one from Sears. When it came my father assembled it and went to the local grocery stores and none carried charcoal.
He had to make a trip to Walmart in Bolivar.
My mother tried grilling some juicy steaks, and when we tried eating them, she stopped us and took them inside the house an pan fried them a little in bacon grease to improve them enough to eat.
BBQ and grilling is an aquired and cultural taste.
Anything that requires a man to do any cooking whatsoever other than boiling hot dogs or frying bologna until the Queen of the Home arrived simply usurped too much Ozarks tradition.
I’ve learned to like BBQ and grilling, mostly from the years I spent at Kansas City eating Gates.
There are only two kinds of sauce I’ll buy, although I refuse none.
Maulls for pork steaks and Gates for everything else.
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One of the reasons an Ozarker of sixty or so years ago ate everything fried, boiled or baked is that old dairy cattle are basically inedible. Store bought beef and locally butchered hogs taste good, but an Ozarker had no time to grill or barbecue. His mother, then later on his wife, did 100% of the cooking while he farmed.
Any kind of ham or bacon needs curing, but it was not uncommon for an entire hog to be ground into sausage.
Any recipes out there for grilled or barbecued sausage?.
I’ve always wondered why only pork steaks are grilled or barbecued.
Enough Maull’s and a sausage burger might be tasty.
Any kind of ham or bacon needs curing, but it was not uncommon for an entire hog to be ground into sausage.
Any recipes out there for grilled or barbecued sausage?.
I’ve always wondered why only pork steaks are grilled or barbecued.
Enough Maull’s and a sausage burger might be tasty.
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I don't smoke meat. Grill occasionally. When someone says BBQ, it's gotta be Carolina chopped pork with vinegar based sauce. Coleslaw and hush puppies are must.
