BBQ Cheater Personality Profile & You Know You’re Hooked When...

[Gold Bar-B-Q Bob Beeman]

Here is a little something from Cheater BBQ

BBQ Cheater Personality Profile

Prefer doing most things the hard way.
You and your friends own matching shirts with a cheerful pig logo.
Can tell the difference between hickory, pecan and apple wood chunks.
Enjoy napping under the stars in a folding chair in a parking lot.
Require little sleep.
Think dinner at 11:30 pm is perfectly normal.
Don’t have time for side dishes,
Can’t buy less than 20 pounds of meat at a time.
Interested in air flow engineering.
Hauling and chopping wood is your favorite form of exercise.

BBQ Cheater Personality Profile

Enjoy an afternoon nap.
Enjoy watching entire games and races on television.
Have many interesting hobbies.
Think a smoke ring comes from a cigar.
Enjoy trying new side dish recipes.
Take an interest in kitchen appliances and know how to operate an oven.
Like having the food ready before guests arrive.
Think “going whole hog” is only an expression.
Refuse to give any brisket 36 hours of your life.
Enjoy a full roster of weekend activities because the barbecue was cooked on Thursday while you were at work.

Common Ground

Always save glass jars for dry rubs.
Always on the look out for sales on heavy duty aluminum foil and foil pans, and jumbo containers of black pepper, paprika, ketchup and cider vinegar.
Own a tong collection, a knife collection including a cleaver, and more than one instant read meat thermometer.
On a first name basis with the meat guys at Sam’s, Wal-Mart, and Costco.
Beer and meat are your favorite food groups.
Know that a butt is actually a shoulder.
Don’t know why everyone else laughs while discussing rubbing and massaging your meat.
Enjoy a lively debate on regional sauces and dry rubs.
Love to eat all kinds of smoky, succulent barbecue!

[Gold Bar-B-Q Bob Beeman]

You know you're hooked when your beer cooler is now being used as a hot box.

[Brian Moriarty]

Can't walk past a scrap metal bin without looking to see if there is something to mod a BBQ with!