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Will now take place the following weekend, Oct 9th - 11th.

What are your must try items at FCF?

Boom.

Yikes. I mean they ripped his facemask off.

Not surprising. Miss River was fine for what it was but extremely overpriced imo. Chemin has been on my list forever but I just never found time to go. Hopefully I'll get a chance to try out the new iteration.

Bubs is good. I think I prefer Burger Nerds a tad more but they're very similar.

I just decided on a griddle insert for my gas grill. Already have too many cookers and don't need to take up more space. Works plenty well enough.

And there's the turnover.

I personally would recommend saving a little more and going with something like an Old Country if you're dead set on an offset. I was of the same mindset of not wanting to spend a ton in the beginning, but it's exponentially harder to manage fire on a thin steel cooker. Gold standard is 1/4" steel thickness. 3/16" is probably the best sweet spot for home cooks / beginners as a compromise between price, weight, and heat stabilization. Older model Ok Joes were 1/4" or 3/16" before Char Broil bought them out and made them 1/10".

If you just want to get into smoking in general, I'd recommend a drum or ceramic smoker, or even a Weber Kettle. A drum smoker with temp controller burning wood chunks is the perfect combination of convenience, quality, and price IMO. Convenience of a pellet smoker with 95% of the taste of an offset. It's what I use 99% of the time now.

Managed to get in after ~1.5hr wait and grab some tickets for a group of us. I think most of the numbers in the queue are bots. Still had some available but were going quick. Will be interested to see how the resale market looks as the season goes on.

Someone asked earlier but I believe the Saints sideline should be West side. Sections S/T/U.

Saw this happen to someone else just a week or so ago. JP is refusing to adjust it. Complete B/S imo.

Saints & Sinners. Parish x St Arnold collab. This one is the St Arnold version.