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I'm old enough to know what I'm not good at. I suck at maintenance and hate it. Question and then I'll add color for TLDR.
I need a good pit that I can buy like at Granzin's. Heavier grade steel. Recommendation?
Ive always had one with a side fire box. I have an old New Braunfels smoke at the house in Bandera that I can cook pretty dang good on. I have a huge one at the house in Odessa that is way too big for me and the wife.
In the past 5 years I've been primarily using a pellet pit. It was fine. Not as good as an actual pit but easy. Really liked the convenience. The anger stopped working. I took it apart and cleaned it to see if it was jammed. Whole thing stopped working and gave me an Err code. I figured there might be an issue since I had the cover off, like maybe a safety switch, so I replaced everything. Whilst doing so, sheared a screwed head off. Got it back on and it still didnt work. Frustrated as I was going to smoke a turkey for Thanksgiving and was running out of time, I left it. Was going to look at it this morning and immediately stripped the first screw.
Now im done with technology. Going back 100% old school.
I also have a weber gas grill that I "fixed". Switched to gas about 20 years ago. Started with a cheap chargril to try gas. When it went out upgraded to a weber that my ex-wife ended up with. Bought a new one for the house. It needed its guys replaced and I did so. Now wont stay lit. So im done with gas.
Going to buy an egg for grilling and another pit for bbq.
This begs the question of why not just buy an egg. Well, ive never had good Q cooked. Decent buy not good. I started 40 years ago on dads grill building a fire on one side and cooking it on another. Never very good either.
I'm old enough to know what I'm not good at. I suck at maintenance and hate it. Question and then I'll add color for TLDR.
I need a good pit that I can buy like at Granzin's. Heavier grade steel. Recommendation?
Ive always had one with a side fire box. I have an old New Braunfels smoke at the house in Bandera that I can cook pretty dang good on. I have a huge one at the house in Odessa that is way too big for me and the wife.
In the past 5 years I've been primarily using a pellet pit. It was fine. Not as good as an actual pit but easy. Really liked the convenience. The anger stopped working. I took it apart and cleaned it to see if it was jammed. Whole thing stopped working and gave me an Err code. I figured there might be an issue since I had the cover off, like maybe a safety switch, so I replaced everything. Whilst doing so, sheared a screwed head off. Got it back on and it still didnt work. Frustrated as I was going to smoke a turkey for Thanksgiving and was running out of time, I left it. Was going to look at it this morning and immediately stripped the first screw.
Now im done with technology. Going back 100% old school.
I also have a weber gas grill that I "fixed". Switched to gas about 20 years ago. Started with a cheap chargril to try gas. When it went out upgraded to a weber that my ex-wife ended up with. Bought a new one for the house. It needed its guys replaced and I did so. Now wont stay lit. So im done with gas.
Going to buy an egg for grilling and another pit for bbq.
This begs the question of why not just buy an egg. Well, ive never had good Q cooked. Decent buy not good. I started 40 years ago on dads grill building a fire on one side and cooking it on another. Never very good either.