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[mdlbear]

With an anniversary present of $250 from my Mom burning a hole in our figurative pockets, and the flower_cat having done a huge amount of research beforehand, we set out this morning to buy a smoker. No, not a cigarette smoker -- what would we want with one of those? This kind of smoker. Actually, it's both a smoker and a grill -- you can burn charcoal in either the firebox or the smoker chamber. Pretty cool. Or hot, as the case may be.

Since the place where we bought it wanted $85 for delivery, and since we'd cleverly driven in my car, the Cat came back (there's a song in there somewhere) on the way home from Pantheacon and had them load it into her van. Better them than me. The chaoswolf and I unloaded it (two huge boxes, and heavy as heck; I was glad to have bought a folding hand-truck last year); it is now sitting in boxes on our driveway/patio waiting to be assembled, which will probably take me much of tomorrow afternoon.

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[technoshaman.livejournal.com]

There's a song in there, and also a video, which I first saw in 1982 at the Canadian Pavillion of the World's Fair....

Now, the question is, should I get jenkitty to look up the recipe for the Gordon clan rib rub? Actually, the question is, does that have double-decker racks? Because the trick is, you use the top rack for ribs, and the bottom rack for a water pan, and even though it's a dry rub, the steaming process makes it come out as if you'd sauced them... OMGWTF*BBQ*....

"I'm ready for some Barbecue!"
-- Monty Roberts, at the end of "The Real Horse Whisperer"

[mdlbear]

It doesn't have double-decker racks, but the gas BBQ does. But if you were smoking the ribs (indirect cooking) rather than grilling them directly, you could put the water pan on the grill in the firebox for the same effect.

We got a different kind of rib rack, that holds six ribs on edge. There'd be room for two more, for a total of 18 ribs.