Making Ribs on the Large With 50 MPH Winds and My New "Smoke"

Judy Mayberry · February 2017

I got St. Louis ribs at Costco yesterday and planned to cook them SLOW on my covered patio during the "monster storm" due here in a few hours. Forecast for Southern California is one month's rain in 24 hours, but that's rhetorical because one month here could be 1.5". North of me lots of mudslide and flooding evacuations warned. Winds are throwing things around me, but I still could light the charcoal with the weed burner (at very low pressure). I have the Platesetter Woo with a drip pan in and so far so good.

I am debuting the new Smoke from Thermoworks, so I can monitor the grid temp from inside the house, instead of popping out all the time to check on it. I am so un-technical I can barely use my cellphone, so this is as wired up as I will get. Not using the meat probe, just the grid clip and probe. It connected immediately and is working fine so far, holding steady at 250°. No need for the DigiQ X. The alarm is set for 275°.

Here's what it started out like:

Cookbook_Chip · February 2017

You go, storm girl!

NPHuskerFL · February 2017

Looks like a good start Ms Judy. Funny when I see stirrings of storms I want to egg. Hopefully you're not in a projected mudslide area. Stay safe & enjoy the eats.

RRP · February 2017

Looks good Judy! Keep us posted and batten down the hatches!

SmokingPiney · February 2017

A good start in tough conditions........sounds like fun Eggin' to me!

pgprescott · February 2017

A trooper for sure!

Judy Mayberry · February 2017

@NPHuskerFL, you're right! There IS something eggciting about a storm on the way! Makes me wanna cook...there's also a chuck pot roast in the slow cooker right now! I'm on high flat land so no worry about mudslides or floods.

My next door neighbor saw me outside and said if her roof flies off she's coming over to my house. She and her husband have been in my house ONE TIME in 42 years, and I have never been invited inside her house. They came over for a thank-you spatchcock dinner...I had a dead skunk in my garage and her husband came over and removed it for me. Anyone have weirder neighbors than that?