I’m not throwing stones at those who do, but if you cook your meat with electricity or gas, you do not have barbecue; you have roast pork. And you can do that with an oven in your kitchen.
Jim Early, founder of the NC Barbecue Society
I’m not throwing stones at those who do, but if you cook your meat with electricity or gas, you do not have barbecue; you have roast pork. And you can do that with an oven in your kitchen.
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Visual proof that Old Hickory House has reopened from the fire in February -Monk (at Old Hickory House BBQ)
“The Science of BBQ” (which has been floating around the past week or so) takes a look at barbecuing/smoking from a scientific perspective. The video interviews Aaron Franklin, and thus it focuses on Texas barbecue and specifically brisket, but I believe the science of smoking would be applicable to pork as well. The True ‘Cue guys even get a shout out.
-Monk