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Hi everyone,

Just bought myself a cheap offset smoker and made my first rack of smoked ribs on Saturday. Not perfect and lots to learn, but still tasted better than anything I've ever had before!

Trouble is all I can think about now is rub and sauce recipes, smoking techniques, cuts of meat, how to improve the smoker etc. etc. My wife thinks I've lost the plot, but I don't understand why everyone isn't thinking like me

Is this normal?

Pete from Plymouth

Don't worry it wears off after a while.................................5-10 years it's inversly proportinal to the number of BBQ cookbooks you have

Some people NEVER stop thinking about BBQ, rubs, sauces etc

noxskuses wrote:Trouble is all I can think about now is rub and sauce recipes, smoking techniques, cuts of meat, how to improve the smoker etc. etc. My wife thinks I've lost the plot, but I don't understand why everyone isn't thinking like me

Is this normal?

You'll be in good company here, i look forward to my hour commute to the office in the mornings as i can think about BBQ all the way to work without being interupted

Im that bad I have been dreaming about my pending smoker build. Ive got so many books arrived and in transit im gonna be as happy as a pig in shite trying all rubs and marinades over the following few months.

Ben

Wait until you do an overnight smoke, when you can't sleep and have to keep looking out of the window at it (you know, just in case it's grown legs and ran away).

Itd be my luck a fox with an asbestos face woukd open up my smoker and take out what ever was in it and id see the said fox bolting out the garden meat in mouth Haha

Ben

Thanks guys. I think. I can't help but feel I now need to get a bumper sticker saying 'You don't need to be mad to be a BBQ'er, but it helps!'

Funnily enough Nick, I've got an 'all-nighter' planned for this weekend

I told my wife about your comments and that it's perfectly normal to be this obsessive. She just smiled and mumbled something about 'nutjobs', but told me that as long as I put a plate of ribs, pulled pork, buffalo wings and slaw in front of her every weekend, she's happy to go along with it.

We've since made an agreement. I don't talk to her about the difference between Texan and South Carolina BBQ sauces, and she won't ask me to watch 'One born every minute'.

Sounds like a deal