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Just hit 200 briskets on my old offset smoker
I started keeping a little notebook by the smoker back in 2018, just a tally mark for each one. I pulled number 200 off the grate this morning, and it hit me how much quieter and slower the whole scene feels now compared to when I was just trying not to burn the first few. Does anyone else get that shift, where the big numbers just start to feel normal?
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abbyl494mo ago
Count my first 30 briskets as practice and the next 170 as practice too honestly. I still keep that notebook but I swear half the entries are just sloppy marks from when I was three beers deep and forgot if I already logged that one. The quiet slow feeling is real though, now I just sit and listen to the fire crack instead of pacing around like a maniac checking the temp every five minutes. Maybe I should start counting how many times I've burned my arm on the damn lid, that number's gotta be way higher than 200.
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nancybennett5mo ago
Your notebook must be a nice record, but my count would be higher if I included all my practice briskets.
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grant.margaret5mo ago
That's so true, it's like how people only count the miles they run outside, not on a treadmill. The practice stuff is the real work, even if it doesn't make the final list.
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