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Keep the heat outside when its hot out, and I like cooking outside. Less mess

I do more than half the cooking and all the outdoor stuff, and that's fine by me. I enjoy it.

Lots of good stuff you can cook with a grill or a pellet smoker that you can't cook on an electric range or in a regular oven. They both have their places, but a lot of the best food I've ever had was cooked outside. A lot of the rest of it was cooked sous vide. Some of it was both.

So, just come in from outside grilled 5 burgers. So I can have something to eat the next two days. And see this thread. 😃



Weber kettle
Chargrill ceramic egg
Weber Genesis propane
Hotpoint propane outdoor range top
Masterbuilt 40” electric smoker
Stainless frankegrill (can do 3 chicken and 3 butts)
8ft x 3ft concrete block lined, ground pit. (Can do dozens of butts)


I built this 24x24 outdoor area in 2014. All connected to my existing covered porches, smoked polycarbonate clear roof panel.

I don’t have plumbing in it but ai have a triple sink on our other patio, our outdoor canning patio.

Was not going to cover it at first but decided I’d get more use out of the slab. We set up a pool table or unfold ping pong table, have a 10x12 screen and projection I can set up too.

Used to duct jack to get all my LVLs up and in place, fab’d all my brackets. Mrs slumlord did all the tile and rock work. Just us. Like always.

Nice

Exactly. If I was starting from scratch I'd have a gas grill with sear burner, pellet grill, and probably a kamodo grill before I'd buy a third handgun. Hard to do without CCW and a bear revolver, but after that it'd be grills.

That looks damn nice and inviting Slummy!

this exactly.....

Weber grill.....Dutch ovens.......Blackstone griddle.....wood fired smoker

That is a badazz outdoor setup slumlord. Where was the ground pit you mentioned?Been wanting to dig one and do a whole hog but so far I'm gathering free materials for a fall cook.

I cook about the same on the grill as I do in the kitchen.

Your loss, honestly....

Slummy's setup looks great!

I cook on the grill more than I do inside.

Barbecue is something you eat, not something you do. Pork shoulder in this part of the country.

And that's the whole truth. But in all reality, Momma is not the least bit interested in cooking on the Traeger. She just likes the idea of having one because two of our kids each have one.

If she really wanted something cooked on the Traeger, she would have taken it 200 feet and cooked it on the one sitting on Daughter's patio.

Beef? She will eat about two bites of a steak about once a year. Maybe a hamburger every week or two.

Shellfish? Ain't nobody around here interested in eating any shellfish of any kind. I just gave away a bag of salmon filets, a couple lobster tails and a big bag of 16 count shrimp which was gifted to us. Nobody between here and my daughters house was interested in any of it.

Fish? If Momma never ate another bite of any fish in her life, she would be happy.

We use lots of chicken, prepared as a dish. Grilled? not interested. Fried? from a deli!

Pork? Steaks or chops once or twice a month.

I dredge steaks, pork or beef, in flour and toss them in a pan of hot oil. I do not prefer grilled over that.

A slowcooker? It has not been pulled out of the cupboard in about four years. I will make chile beans with hamburger, or ham and beans in the pressure cooker.

That is our lifestyle. A great big Brinkman grill on the deck did not change that lifestyle. I sure don't think a Traeger would either.

Momma really likes to cook. Which, to her, means mixing ingredients in a bowl, and adding them to a pan on the stove.

If all I had was an electric stove and no grill or smoker of any kind, I’d eat out every damn meal.

I find little joy in standing in the sun over a fire with ambient temp between 100 and 110, after spending 10 hours in that heat all day at work.

Yes, I can afford to buy the electricity to pump the oven heat back outside.

It's a hell of a lot cheaper than pellets, charcoal, or propane to run a grill. So that is a specious argument.

All 3 daughters are grown, 2 gone.

Used ta bbq all the time.
Hotdogs
Hamburgers
Steaks
Chicken
Ribs
Pork chops
Deer meat recipes.

Probably been 10 or 12 yrs.

Slice of bark meat or burger from slumlords cooking every once in awhile now.

GET OUT PIMP !!

Beautiful work there Slummy. You folks obviously enjoy it.

I don't like eating outside, but I sure do like meat cooked over wood outside.

Some food is just not good unless grilled. Steak and pork chops come to mind...

Oh, and I hate eating outside. Don't need the wind or bugs.

Summer 12 I burned the back deck down bbq’ing wife won’t let me cook outside no mo. Matter of 20 minutes 10 grand back deck gone. My wife was pissed had to sleep in spare bedroom for a month. The going joke around here is he said “just a little more charcoal fluid”. What’s even more embarrassing my bud worked for the fire department and was on scene. I’m going to just stop talking about it.