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    Texas BBQ

    dcbc replied to Washpark's topic in Food and Travel

    $33 per pound for brisket earns an honest review. Same for the solid review of the beef rib at $37 per pound.
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    Si. 1/16 more bueno.
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    @CoachTex Check this out. It's more expensive at $2,450, but it seems like it will outlast all of us and is a 20x20 Vertical Offset. 1/4" steel. Made in Houston. Depending how many years you got out of your (to use your words) "El cheapo" smoker, it might make the most sense to save your money and get another one in the lower end of the price range. But I don't think that ASF looks like it's worth $1,500. This one looks like it's probably built to last at $2,450. YMMV https://pitsbyjj.com/smokers/20x20-vertical-smoker/
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    They're super chimey, which is great for a lot of things. Plus, when you want it a bit darker, the tone knob can give you that. Makes for a good all-rounder.
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    Lifetime makes a combo horizontal/vertical offset. But the 20" one is $2,200. Just doing a quick search, it's really hard to find something in that layout that isn't high dollar or flimsy. It looks like they sell those ASF pits at HEB (not exactly encouraging), but it would be easy enough to go over there and check them out. It should be pretty apparent whether they are built to last at least for a little while. Otherwise, I'd make a crude drawing of what you want and see what a welder would charge you to fabricate it out of 1/4" steel. Sometimes, this is cheaper than you think. You can use your current cooker's dimensions.
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    I see what you did there.
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    Well, in looking at other vertical offsets, that seems to hit a sweet spot between the super thin OK Joe and the tank-like but expensive Lone Star Grillz. I can't seem to find a price on Yoder's vertical offsets, but I imagine they're up there. The stack placement on the ASF is an interesting choice. I assume there's some sort of baffle or tuning plate that allows the smoke get above stack height and then make its way down?
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    No experience, but for a 3/16" thick cooker, the price seems a bit steep. If you're looking for something you can buy and not have to wait on a build, the Old Country G2 at Academy is pretty substantial and will only run you a few hundred more than the 20" ASF.
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    , which is a different story. I meant in restrictive clauses. "That" or "who usually is appropriate there, but there are some instances (no examples come to mind) where which might be best (and I still lean toward that).
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    I'm guilty of using "that" when "which" would be more appropriate. I think if you're even thinking about what might be grammatically correct, you're doing far better than most.
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    I'm deferring to Zaff Bracklin and declaring the grammatical rules he referenced to be above my pay grade. I'm not sure we touched on the use of "that." I don't like how it reads, and considering that "a people" is a group, I think I might opt for "which" instead of "who," but I'm not 100% confident on my choice. "Who" sounds more natural to me.
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    Sounds like my only trip to Cologne, and it was on a Sunday, no less (not much open). Took in the Cathedral and then just hit the beer bar/restaurant for Kolsch followed by a nice self-guided walking tour before we caught the train back to Amsterdam. My son is taking German next semester. I think I know where this is leading, and I'm for it.
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    Cologne doesn't look like it's too far from Mainz on the map. It's beautiful and worth a trip if you've never been.
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    I'm not a great musician, but I can play (passably) several instruments. That background undoubtedly influences my writing style. But clarity is more important, and I wish more people writing what I have to read on a daily basis would embrace it in their writings. I agree. If I were her editor, I would have written "awkward" in the margin.
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    As soon as you put "a" in front of people, it makes it a singular group. Ultimately, it's just not good writing. It loses its momentum right out of the gate with word choice and structure.
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    This. I edited my previous post to suggest the same.
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    Honestly, HotEL was probably the worst class I took in my major. Middle English can bite me. Back to the sentence at hand, regardless of grammatical correctness, I'd say it's still not well written simply because it's jarring. She might as well have written, "We are a people[,]" as a stand-alone sentence because everything that followed stopped me dead in my tracks as a reader.
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    Hopefully, they just keep doing their thing. I've loved everything I've been served there, and the approachable factor really says a lot about the non-culinary aspect of the experience there.
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    In hindsight, I should have taken Grammar instead of History of the English Language at UT.
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    Yes, but not a great one.
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    I mentioned this in the BBQ thread. The beef rib was excellent. The sausage was great. And the brisket, although tender, had no bark and was extremely disappointing. My only trip to LaBBQ was post-Lewis, but both the beef rib and brisket were top notch that day. Yes, the vibe at LM is great and the people were as friendly as they come. But I just couldn't believe that the brisket I was served came off the same pit or was cooked by the same person who cooked that delicious beef rib.
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    Based on my stop in Taylor last Friday, I'd say they got it right if we only are talking Mueller lineage joints.
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    Questions/Issues presented aside, I don't ordinarily get too hung up on cutting unnecessary words for the sake of cutting. When I'm writing, I'm trying to maintain a rhythm. Sometimes, more words suit that. Other times, something shorter fits the bill.
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    I hate to disappoint, but I'm cooking the Turkey Day bird on the WSM. We're hosting and I can't get it all done and watch a fire.
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    Nah, we all do it. That's what writing is. We hear it all the time, and so we write it. It's not wrong, but it's something I got corrected on when I started my current job about 23 years ago, and it's stuck with me since then.

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