Visited a small town in Texas and saw a pitmaster using a metal trash can lid as a heat shield on his offset smoker.

emmasmith7mo ago

My buddy Carl in Oklahoma welded an old license plate to his smoker as a wind break... worked like a charm for years.

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bettyrodriguez7mo ago

Love that kind of backyard engineering. Makes you realize how much we overcomplicate things.

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the_max7mo ago

You ever see something so simple it makes you question all the fancy gear? I used to be the guy who thought you needed a special tool for every single job on a smoker. Watching a guy use a trash can lid, something he probably had lying around, to solve a real problem was a total lightbulb moment. It's not about what the thing is meant for, it's about whether it works. That kind of clever fix beats a shiny new gadget any day.

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