am I becoming a BBQ snob

[fishingbouchman]

At work and didn't have time to make dinner before I left the house.  Figured I would just eat there as they usually have good prices and ok food.  Had BBQ as the special.  OK can't be that bad.  probably not real BBQ but more crock pot pork...  oh man worst 4.50 ever spent.  boiled ribs?  mushy with no flavor pork   
Is it  because I am becoming a snob since you all made me step up my game and I am getting a taste for real bbq or was it really that bad. 

[muebe]

No not a snob. Your just realizing what real BBQ should taste like. When I go out to eat BBQ I don't expect it to be as good as mine. It is difficult for a restaurant to produce quality BBQ on a large scale. Now I did not say impossible just difficult. But I do expect it to be good. And you expecting the same is not being a snob IMHO.

[RAD]

I agree with muebe. But that does look like a really nice PIC of food.

[TwoPockets]

Hopefully the sausage was good at least, how can you mess up sausage unless it was bad sausage when it was made.

[deestafford]

My wife owns a lingirie shop and sometimes people will ask her where is a good place to eat and she tells them she doesn't go out to eat because her husband cooks the best meals she can eat. 
My son in law is an executive chef and one time  I asked him about being disappointed in eating when he went out to eat.  He said, "It is what it is."
I have heard many good cooks respond to questions of why their food is so good and their response has always been, "Love".  And I think that is what makes us here cook so well...we put our love of cooking into what we do.  I enjoy the cooking much more than I do the eating.  I like to watch the response of the people eating my food.  That's where my satisfaction comes from.  Dee

[fishingbouchman]

Usually don't eat out myself.  For the price, we can make a much better meal at home.  Sometime we like to play what would this meal cause us for a plate had we gone out and we made it for how much. 

Sausage was ok and the only thing I ate.  Picked at the rest but most of it found the recycle bin. 

[smokeasaurus]

Why pay for sub-par BBQ when it is so much fun and better to make your own.....if that is snobby, then I am one of the biggest snobs around.

We only go out to eat breakfast a couple of times a year to visit two  local old school diners that are left in the valley.......

[Pappymn]

It is all about the love

[sparky]

I agree.  your a huge bbq snob.  and you should be because you can cook better bbq than what most places serve ppl.  i'm glad your a bbq snob.  we all should be.   

[mikecorn.1]

Hopefully the sausage was good at least, how can you mess up sausage unless it was bad sausage when it was made.

Trust me when I say that perfectly good sausage can be ruined. My in-laws can fat-out sausage with the best of them. I think they like to see the sausage squirting out all the juices to make the flames bigger   I've also had leather chicken legs and dry as hay beef ribs


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[bbqchef]

We rarely go out to eat.. my bride keeps telling me "I get better food at home." I tried explaining that going out means I don't have to cook but she won't have any of that...

I'm an executive chef and cook for a living... sometimes it's just nice not to cook even if the food isn't that great.

[dawrecknq]

Good Morning Group...my name is Dan and I'm a BBQ Snob! I really don't eat at BBQ places much any more. Muebe has it right. BBQ joints just take the time to put in real love. Don't get me wrong, I have eaten some really good BBQ, but it depends on which pitmaster you get that day. Famous Dave's is usually good. County Line was good till they closed. JT's in Joplin, Mo; if it's still open was always good.

[teesquare]

THIS:

I have heard many good cooks respond to questions of why their food is so good and their response has always been, "Love".  And I think that is what makes us here cook so well...we put our love of cooking into what we do.  I enjoy the cooking much more than I do the eating.  I like to watch the response of the people eating my food.  That's where my satisfaction comes from.  Dee


Is at the heart of understanding why we enjoy cooking. The fact that we mostly enjoy doing outdoors is a bonus.

[Jaxon]

I have been involved in a couple of outdoor cooking forums for over 4 years - it's like going to school for me.
During that time, and particularly during the past year, my focus has turned toward bbq - low and slow.  I think the reason for that is this:  there are so many variables / options for each lesson.  There are flavor options with rubs, marinades, wood selection, etc.  There are temp options and smoke options.  There are choices about which cooker to use.  It is never boring and seldom predictable for me.  I realize most of y'all know how you're food will turn out even before you begin, but it is always a challenge for me, especially as I continue to try different techniques that y'all present herein.

We have some bbq restaurants in our area.  Some are bbq "joints", and it seems they have the better que.  Could be because bbq is their LIFE - they learned it early on and put all they have into it - including the LOVE factor.

Every now and then, I get a hankerin' to try some que at a place I haven't tried before...but usually, Deb likes the food she gets at "backyard jack's".  I think she can taste the love...and you know, it does my heart good when she starts braggin' on it (whether its good or just so-so.)

Am I a bbq snob?  Probably not...I just know what tastes good to ME.  And to think - a couple of years ago I didn't KNOW the difference.
Thanks Y'all,

[TwoPockets]

When I brought my wife home from the hospital yesterday and went to get all her prescriptions filled she said she wanted some Brunswick Stew for lunch. I stopped by one of our local BBQ places and picked her up some stew and a BBQ sandwick for myself. This place just finished second as the best BBQ restaurant in the state of Alabama. It was a March Madness style competition that started with 64 restaurants competing head to head in 4 regions, getting down to one in each region then two head to head.

Anyway, her Brunswick stew was all meat, couldn't even squeeze any moisture out of it. She ate a bit and I will add some liquid and some more goodies and heat it up for leftovers. My sandwich was also very dry and had probably a pound of meat on it. I should have split into two sandwiches and added much more BBQ sauce to it.