BBQ with Franklin on PBS

Botch

There's a few threads here about Aaron Franklin's restaurant in Austin, about his book, and about his how-to series on EweTube, but I didn't see anything about his new series on PBS.  I'm enjoying the heck out of it, and learning quite a bit.

I've been recording the PBS show, and enjoy Mr. Franklin's droll sense of humor.  Today he showed how he built his various smokers.  Start with a huge propane tank, fill it with a large bottle of dishsoap and then top with water, let soak which removes and residual propane/chemicals.  Meanwhile, he needed a Sharpie, so he hops on his forklift and drives off.  Returns, parks, and lifts his Sharpie off the fork tine.     Showed how he marks out the doors, the thermometer location, the firebox, and the chimney, then grabs an angle grinder and starts cutting doors.  The tank at this point is still full of water, and starts pouring all over his angle grinder, his electric grinder!    He builds his own hinges out of steel tubing and horseshoes, and welds everything together.  He's very big on keeping the airflow thru his smokers just right, said a 1/2"-inch change in the location of the smokestack changes everything.

He talked a bit about commercial smokers, and doesn't care for the Big Green Egg style as they don't maintain a good airflow; yet, we can make anything as smoky as desired, would love to be able to try his brisket next to mine and taste the difference.  

Learning quite a bit from this series, and it's fun. 

Sweet100s

Agree - totally love the show, Aaron's personality and sense of humor. 

When he did the show on whole hog, I screamed out loud in laughter when he spontaneously went from seriously prepping the hog on its tummy to giving  a swedish back massage and slap on the butt.

beachsmoke

I will take the Pepsi challenge against him til he gets paid by BGE

FearlessTheEggNoob

He's a good guy

stemc33

I wish I could get as excited about my job as Aaron does about his job. 

There was a thread that talked about Franklin BBQ being PBS not too long ago. Or at least a posting because I learned how to change the PBS location to Austin on Apple TV from reading a post from @SGH.