On 6/1/2010 9:15 PM, Lou Decruss wrote:
> On Tue, 01 Jun 2010 09:33:10 -0500, > wrote:
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>> In >,
>> Lou > wrote:
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>>> A small hot fire with very thin blue smoke. Cuchulain Libby spoke
>>> years ago about feeling your smoke. If you rub your fingers together
>>> over the exhaust if should feel dry.
>>>
>>> Lou
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>> Interesting...
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> I thought so.
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>> Cuchulain was trolling.
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> Wasn't his style.
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>> I don't believe feeling the smoke makes much sense or that he would even
>> be able to detect variations with his fangers.
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> It was his teaching method I think. Maybe bordering on hyperbole. Go
> make a fire with thick white smoke and feel the exhaust. Then go back
> after it's burnt down and has a thin blue smoke and feel it.
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>> Good BBQ is actually somewhat fool proof.
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> I don't think so. But it ain't rocket science.
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>> Don't burn it, make some smoke and use some fat meat, indirect low heat, give it plenty
>> of time.
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> You make a small hot fire and the smoke is a given. If all that was
> required was smoke you could cook with cherry bombs added to a gas
> grill.
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>> The BBQ "fanciers" like to make a big rub-a-dub production out
>> of it but it is mostly pure BULLSHIT.
>
> Much it chest pounding which it why I don't read the Q group anymore.
>
> Lou
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You are not the only one Lou. I feel/felt the same way.

If you can't have joy from talking about what you like, with people that
feel the same, than that usenet group is no longer good for you.

I like several of the folks on the a.f.b group, but too many more are
just spending their posts with hate. That makes me too sad to even post
there.

Bob