Let's Talk BBQ

Welcome Center => New Member Introductions => Topic started by: SmokinSteiny on August 22, 2012, 09:18:15 PM

Title: Hello Everybody!!!
Post by: SmokinSteiny on August 22, 2012, 09:18:15 PM
howdy,

     Just figured I would introduce myself, I've noticed most of the names are pretty familiar here so most of you will atleast know of me..    My name is Chris from Illinois, but I work in Afghanistan so unfortunately you won't see too many cooks from me until my vacations.....  Been using a pellet smoker for about a year now, bought the Traeger BBQ300 Deluxe.   I'm not too fond of her and plan to purchase her replacement in the coming couple of months.  I've narrowed it down to the MAK 2 Star general and the Yoder YS-640.......


Thanks

Chris (SmokinSteiny)
Title: Re: Hello Everybody!!!
Post by: teesquare on August 22, 2012, 09:51:00 PM
Hey Chris! Great to have you! Which one of our members invited you? ( We grow thru invitation mostly - that how we are sure to just have all of the "good guys" here ;) ) BTW - I have the Yoder and so does Mossy MO... I love it. It is the Abrams of the pellet smokers/grills.
Contractor?  Prior svc?
T
Title: Re: Hello Everybody!!!
Post by: SmokinSteiny on August 22, 2012, 10:02:45 PM
T,

Art (ACW3) Invited me...   Yes I'm both prior svc and now contractor.  I've talked to Mossy MO in great detail about his yoder and they seem great but man all the lil gadgets of the MAK are really drawing me in ya know.   We'll see in October what I end up doing.  I'll be home in November to break it in whichever I purchase.
Title: Re: Hello Everybody!!!
Post by: teesquare on August 22, 2012, 10:40:01 PM
They are both great choices. I live about 1:45 west of Art in Brevard NC. Look us up when you are stateside!
T
Title: Re: Hello Everybody!!!
Post by: muebe on August 22, 2012, 11:16:04 PM
Hey Chris!

Welcome home ;)
Title: Hello Everybody!!!
Post by: Pappymn on August 23, 2012, 12:13:37 AM
Welcome from Minnesota. Thank you for your service.
Title: Re: Hello Everybody!!!
Post by: Ka Honu on August 23, 2012, 04:10:17 AM
You need to talk to nepas - he's got a MAK 2 star and a bunch of goodies for sale here (http://www.letstalkbbq.com/index.php?topic=1193.msg10920#msg10920) for a ridiculously low price.  The savings would pay for your trip from Illinois to pick it up in Georgia.
Title: Re: Hello Everybody!!!
Post by: Pam Gould on August 23, 2012, 04:10:38 AM
Chris..welcome from NW Ohio.  Pam  ; *))
Title: Re: Hello Everybody!!!
Post by: ACW3 on August 23, 2012, 06:29:02 AM
Hey Chris, welcome from North Carolina.  Glad you joined. 

Art
Title: Hello Everybody!!!
Post by: mikecorn.1 on August 23, 2012, 08:22:30 AM
Welcome aboard.


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
Title: Re: Hello Everybody!!!
Post by: squirtthecat on August 23, 2012, 09:16:42 AM

Welcome from the other side of Sangamon county!
Title: Re: Hello Everybody!!!
Post by: smokeasaurus on August 23, 2012, 09:20:00 AM
A big Howdy from Southern California....
Title: Re: Hello Everybody!!!
Post by: Don O on August 23, 2012, 09:45:55 AM
Hello to you SS and also welcome from Northern California.
Title: Re: Hello Everybody!!!
Post by: teesquare on August 23, 2012, 11:02:38 AM
You need to talk to nepas - he's got a MAK 2 star and a bunch of goodies for sale here (http://www.letstalkbbq.com/index.php?topic=1193.msg10920#msg10920) for a ridiculously low price.  The savings would pay for your trip from Illinois to pick it up in Georgia.

Hard as it is to admit....the old surfin' reptile is correct! :D
I had forgotten that Rick  has what may be the deal of the century in pellet cooking gear....SOmeone totaled up all the goodies he including and it came to around $3000.....I would contact him ASAP if you are looking for a deal!
Title: Re: Hello Everybody!!!
Post by: sparky on August 23, 2012, 12:19:32 PM
yo smokin, howdy buddy.  welcome.  its very cool here.  any smokers on whatever they cook on are welcome here.  i like it.   :P
Title: Re: Hello Everybody!!!
Post by: Ka Honu on August 23, 2012, 02:11:39 PM
Hard as it is to admit....the old surfin' reptile is correct!

One of the many burdens I bear (and one of the many reasons I move so "deliberately") is the inability of you lesser species to comfortably accept the natural superiority of we reptiles of the order Testudines.  Get used to it and your life will be in much better balance.  Or just drink more and ignore it; that always seems to work for me.
Title: Re: Hello Everybody!!!
Post by: SmokinSteiny on August 23, 2012, 06:04:47 PM
Thanks for the warm welcomes everyone!  Much appreciated!!!  I wish I was closer to NC, I'd hit up NEPAS in a heartbeat for what he's got on sale.  But with the price of gas and my lil Scion XB, I don't think I could fit it in there or pay for the gas round trip think I'd be well over what I'd pay for the NEW 2012 model with all the bells and whistles included......  :'(  I am going to be in NC next May to go to Camp Lejuene but I don't think TSA will let me carry on a smoker! lol  ;D
Title: Re: Hello Everybody!!!
Post by: TwoPockets on August 23, 2012, 06:11:38 PM
Welcome to the nuthouse! Hope to learn from your cooks when you get back stateside.

Thank you for your service.
Title: Re: Hello Everybody!!!
Post by: teesquare on August 23, 2012, 08:02:57 PM
Hard as it is to admit....the old surfin' reptile is correct!

One of the many burdens I bear (and one of the many reasons I move so "deliberately") is the inability of you lesser species to comfortably accept the natural superiority of we reptiles of the order Testudines.  Get used to it and your life will be in much better balance.  Or just drink more and ignore it; that always seems to work for me.

(http://i428.photobucket.com/albums/qq1/teesquare1/FUNNY/159848_87_113235_full.jpg)



Ahhhh...the melodius sounds of a warranted response to a bloviating weed plucker!!!!  ( JK Turtle....fun to poke at you!)
Title: Re: Hello Everybody!!!
Post by: Ka Honu on August 23, 2012, 08:57:14 PM
Nice tat, tee, and considerate of you to warn the neighbors.
Title: Re: Hello Everybody!!!
Post by: teesquare on August 23, 2012, 10:37:28 PM
I have my honor,  after all.... ;D

Hey....are you o.k. after that harrowing experience???

http://screen.yahoo.com/outrage-in-calif-over-turtle-strapped-to-balloons-30362626.html
Title: Re: Hello Everybody!!!
Post by: Ka Honu on August 23, 2012, 10:59:56 PM
That was Cletus, a distant cousin (apparently trying to get even more distant).  Cletus grew up in Georgia and then migrated to California when he was thrown into the bed of a westbound pickup truck and fell in love with the spare tire.  He's had "issues" ever since, stemming from a combination of his "hold my beer and watch this" heritage and his acquired California strangeness.  Plus he's a box turtle which, if you know anything about turtles, explains a lot.
Title: Re: Hello Everybody!!!
Post by: teesquare on August 23, 2012, 11:08:38 PM
Whew...glad you cleared that up.....sort of... ::) ;D
Title: Re: Hello Everybody!!!
Post by: TentHunteR on August 24, 2012, 10:58:24 AM
Chris, good to see you over here! It's another great forum full of friendly, informative and encouraging folks!
Title: Re: Hello Everybody!!!
Post by: TwoPockets on August 24, 2012, 11:03:32 AM
Hard as it is to admit....the old surfin' reptile is correct!

One of the many burdens I bear (and one of the many reasons I move so "deliberately") is the inability of you lesser species to comfortably accept the natural superiority of we reptiles of the order Testudines.  Get used to it and your life will be in much better balance.  Or just drink more and ignore it; that always seems to work for me.

(http://i428.photobucket.com/albums/qq1/teesquare1/FUNNY/159848_87_113235_full.jpg)



Ahhhh...the melodius sounds of a warranted response to a bloviating weed plucker!!!!  ( JK Turtle....fun to poke at you!)

Interesting tramp stamp ya got there Tee.