Fugawetribe

We haven’t quite adapted to this Tennessee weather yet.

In Florida the weather guessers forecast a 50-percent chance of rain roughly 300 days a year.  That means your BBQ has a fifty-fifty chance of getting rained on.  So we cook out 300 days a year and only occasionally get rained on.

Conversely, up here on the mountain, it seems that a 20-percent chance of rain means that 20 percent of the rain in the area will definitely fall on you.

I thought it was a chance of rain, like gambling, not a percentage of total rainfall. I thought wrong. The last time it was 50 percent it was a real frog-strangler.

I’m not looking forward to 100-percent chance of snow.

Carolina Gold mustard sauce is Da Bomb!

I served a shoulder the other day and I didn’t get any. The pan was clean. They sucked it all up!

Carolina Gold from Lexington SC is the real deal, a Piedmont sauce that brings everything to the table.

SC Piedmont BBQ sauce is different; it’s a mustard and vinegar-based sauce that’s said to come from German immigrants to the area. That style of BBQ is only served in the Lexington county area; Shealey’s in Leesville is the standard-bearer with some incredible Q and hash.

Tired of ordinary Q? Find you some Carolina Gold.

We got us a pig box.  La Caja China, the Cuban microwave. A hole in the ground without the hole.

It’s a box with a grate that holds the fire on top, a roaster. Supposedly it’ll cook a 100# pig in a few hours. Well, maybe, if it doesn’t rain and you don’t peek.

We did a couple of 8# shoulders today; I was guessing an hour a pound and considering the rain and peeking I was dead-on.  The peeking was because I’d fried a temp probe early on.

It’s not BBQ but it’s mighty good eats. I’ll p9st a pic when we’re all relatively decent.