So I did a thing today... I was getting ready to write my post this morning about a cook I did on my Weber Kettle this past weekend and I realized there isn't really a great place to share this kind of stuff. Sure, the @foodiesbeehive community has a subsection for BBQ, and back in the day @s3rg3 had a community called "Grillin and Chillin", but it looks like he left the chain back in early 2023.
So I decided to start my own community about all things grilling and smoking. I'm in a number of groups over on that Web 2.0 platform called Facebook and the number of people in those communities is pretty impressive. I'm talking up to 100x the total number of active users here on Hive. It's impressive and frustrating all at the same time!
If you have been following me for a while, you know that I love to grill. I live in Michigan where the winters can be a bit brutal at times, but that doesn't stop me from grilling year round. I've owned small grills, upright smokers, offset barrel smokers, gas grills, and my current cooker is a Weber kettle. The only thing I haven't cooked on is a pellet grill or a Big Green Egg style, but that doesn't mean those aren't allowed.
I hope this can be a place where people share their favorite cooks, recipes, methods or anything in between. I'm still working on the details as far as rules and things like that. There are a lot more options for communities these days than the last time I created one many years ago.
My hope is that this can grow into a great resource for many people.
If nothing else, the photos alone should be worth it!
I got home from running some errands on Saturday morning and @mrsbozz said to me, "you're having steak tonight for dinner".
Okay, twist my arm!
She had already gotten the steak and chicken out of the freezer so it could start to defrost, but we needed to get her chicken marinating since she doesn't eat beef. Lately I've been pounding down our chicken to tenderize it as woody chicken is becoming more common and it's not very fun when you bite into a piece.
She uses a simple marinade of soy sauce, oil, garlic, honey, and some spices. It's a really easy and flavorful marinade.
Then she asked what I wanted as a side for the meal along with the brussels sprouts she planned on cooking. My choices were mac and cheese or potatoes. Since I had already had home fries for breakfast and tater tots for lunch, I decided to go with mac and cheese.
We've been doing mac and cheese in this small Lodge cast iron pan for several years no. It's so well seasoned that when you are finished you can basically just wipe it with a wet paper towel and it is totally clean for your next use.
Her chicken cooked off fairly quickly since I had pounded it pretty thin. This was actually enough chicken for both her dinner and here on Wednesday she is still taking it for lunch at work.
It doesn't really look like it, but I think my steak was a New York Strip that I got from Sam's Club on one of our recent visits. Either that or it was a ribeye I picked up at our local meat market a while ago. It actually looks more like a ribeye to me now that I take a closer look. It certainly had a decent amount of fat on it like a ribeye would have.
Again, if you have been following me for a while, you know that I pretty much exclusively use charcoal when I am grilling. I can use gas (my Blackstone Griddle uses gas), and I have in the past, but I always prefer wood or charcoal to do the majority of my grilling on. Some might argue it takes too long, but with the right tools, it's usually not too bad.
Plus it just gets hot as hell as you can see from the photo above. I've yet to see a pellet grill that can sear off a steak like charcoal or infrared can.
Plus, I just love rolling smoke! Well, this kind of smoke...
If you are a Weber aficionado, you know that the built in thermometer is pretty much useless when it comes to your kettle. Most people either replace them or buy a stand alone thermometer to gauge the temperature inside the grill. While I have no doubt it was quite hot inside my kettle, I don't think it was really as close to 500 degrees as the photo shows.
In the end, it was a delicious dinner and a very successful cook. Try not to laugh at me too hard for cutting up my steak ahead of time. I wanted to show how perfectly medium rare it was and I was also eating while sitting on the couch watching basketball, so I didn't want to try to use a steak knife with the plate sitting on my lap!
I'm not expecting a couple hundred thousand users or anything, but I hope one day we can grow this community into something really great. Hive has a lot of potential and having these "groups" set up ahead of time could go a long way when the masses finally start adopting the platform.
I look forward to seeing your posts!
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Men, I can all but perceive the divine smell of the chicken, I'm sure your whole backyard must have been covered in it😅, You might have had your neighbors peeping through their windows.
I love how tender the steak looks. And creating a community where fellow grillers can come to share their work is amazing. I might not a griller but I don't mind staring at photos of perfectly cooked steak.
I'm glad you enjoyed it! It's one of my favorite things to do, so it only felt right that I should create a community for it. I know there are plenty of other like minded individuals out there in the world!
So basically a BBQ community? Great idea 👍
Yep, that's pretty much it!
nub of the gist as my tour guide used to say 😅.
Your photos made me want to eat dinner again. Will check this community from time to time. Keep up the great grilling bro !BBH
Thanks, I appreciate it!
This looks and sounds fantastic! (Probably not the best idea to look at those stunning photographs while hungry, but alas!) We in South Africa have a pretty big "Braai" (BBQ) tradition with some people doing it every day. I love to braai - essentially BBQ but over wood coals. This sounds like the perfect community and opportunity to write down my steak and other recipes! (Love to cook with cast iron pots over the fire as well!) Looking forward to sharing and reading from others with the same BBQ (or Braai) passions.
Awesome! I am glad you found this place. There is a guy who used to be really active on here named @braaiboy. I follow him on Instagram, but I haven't seen him post in a while, maybe I just haven't been looking closely enough. I think cast iron would be acceptable as long as it is on some kind of grill. I'll look forward to seeing your posts!
Thanks for creating this place and space! Looking forward to seeing what takes place on other people's grills!
Yes, I live close to him! But I have yet to visit his bar - I think he is the head chef there if I am not mistaken.
For sure, when we grill a steak and some chicken, we always use the cast iron skillet to cook either onions (caramelised) or potatoes (fried) with the extra coals!
Happy grilling!
I'm looking forward to it was well. I hope we get some good shots and stories. I may not look like it, but I am a total amatuer comapred to some folks! I want to start doing some more open fire cooking on our camping trips in the future.
Cutting up of the steak before eating must have been painful! lol That's a great idea for a community, a great place to share our grilling tips. I like wood or charcoal too, the flavor is just better. Gas just isn't the same!
That food came out beautifully, Great job grilling!
Thanks, I appreciate it. I didn't want to duplicate something that is already out there, but it looks like this is still a niche that needed a home. I hope more people start subscribing and sharing stuff. I didn't really mind about the steak, but I know some people frown on that. My buddy was really upset the first time he went to a Japanese steakhouse and they cut his steak into little bits for him!
They always do that in Japanese steakhouses! You have a great idea, let's hope we see some nice smokers tips. Suddenly I feel like some Brazilian BBQ, there's a great place not far from where I live. You can't go wrong with some great BBQ!
We had a Brazilian place near where I live, but I never got the chance to visit there before they closed it down. I've heard they are amazing.
I love these grilling and smoking posts, so different from the UK where we're just not mmm ... frontiers ... enough.
Also, grilling and smoking makes a nice change from begging and pleading, as in "no begging and pleading" a sign often seen over the public bar of pubs, especially in the seedier parts of town.
Oh really? That's quite interesting! I don't think we have signs like that over here, but maybe in the bigger cities. In the one Weber group I am in on Facebook, there are people from all over the globe with Weber Kettles. It's pretty crazy.
Ah, I must find where they are :)
Good luck with the community,it's a great idea.
Establishing a new community ain't easy! Good luck with that :)
Oh, I know! @steevc started the #whisky/whiskey group a while ago and that thing should be on fire, but it isn't...
What a cool idea, best of luck and I just might have to join and be apart of this community too.
Thanks, feel free. Even if it is just to look a the tasty photos!
Yes, that too. I'm hungry now, Haha.
excellent community friend here supporting you I am also a fan of having our meals outdoors plus that flavor that the embers and smoke give is great
I totally agree with you! Thanks for stopping by!
Great idea.
I’m always trying to get that perfect rare Blue Tenderloin.
I've tried to do rare in the past and I just can't do it. I'm not even a big fan of prime rib for that reason. I dunno, it just never appealed to me. Medium to Medium Rare is about the most I can handle.
Bought a grill this summer, but can't get the charcoal to light without an accelerator. And that doesn't taste good on the food!😀
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Just joined BlueSky this week and it looks like it might be an interesting social network. A few Hiveans over there already.
I've heard of Blue Sky, but I couldn't even keep up with Twitter, so I don't know if I want to add another Web 2.0 to the mix.
You need one of these:
https://www.weber.com/US/en/blog/burning-questions/how-to-use-a-chimney-starter/weber-30557.html
and then something like these:
https://www.amazon.com/Shwuevei-pcs-Fire-Starter-Fireplace/dp/B0BNMJPR9W?th=1
Thanks for the tips....will check it out. Right now the grill is a nice ornament on the deck :)
Don't use Facebook. Don't use Twitter (ugh). Love Hive, but to reach another audience thought I'd add a microblogging site to the mix. I used to love Twitter. But.....
:) I understand. I have three of those chimney's. The one is starting to rust out, but it still works. I've had it for close to thirty years now.
Nice, I joined it just for the yummy pictures.😂 I have a wood pellet grill and an electric smoker. My old-school smoker lasted like 15 years until it rusted out all the way. I miss that one.
It sounds like it was quite the workhorse. I'll accept electric if it is used for smoking. I've thought about getting a small one myself to take camping with us.
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Nice community but my first post will take a bit longer since my bbq is covered by ice and snow 😂. By the way nice you have a charcoal webber grill like me 😁. You know what is good !!! I hate propane bbq!
By the way you are good in grilling i saw the color of the meat!! Good job!!
I do that, too, so I cut my food ahead of time as well 😁
Cool idea for a community! GOOD LUCK with it!
Cool community. My steak I take blue and very rarely can I find people that can do it apart from me, so will settle for rare!