Who cooks over winter?

2 years ago by Hossenfeffer to c/cooking_with_fire

It's been at least three months since I wrapped up my Kamado Joe, and longer since I posted a cook. I'm hoping this year I might get around to a proper outdoor kitchen and will be able to cook in all weather.

How about the rest of you? Does anyone brave the elements in winter?

Please_Do_Not 3 points 2 years ago

I'm in Chicago so we get cold and snow, but thankfully I have a slight overhang above our grill so I can use it year round. Salmon every Monday at a minimum, skipped about 2 weeks each of the last years when we had 5-10 days below zero. But I can also see our grill from the window in our kitchen and spend a lot of time in between checking and flipping things inside, so I don't get full fanatic credit haha.

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Hossenfeffer 0 points 2 years ago

I lived in Chicago for a bit. Love that city.

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Please_Do_Not 0 points 2 years ago

As far as US cities go, it's a good one for sure, especially for food.

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MunkyNutts 3 points 2 years ago

US southwest here. That's when we're cooking outside, after about mid-May it's too fucking hot to stand outside around a grill until about mid-October.

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OpticalMoose 2 points 2 years ago
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TexasDrunk 2 points 2 years ago

Every year. It doesn't snow here terribly often but if it's snowing you can bet I'm drunk as hell smoking a brisket.

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Hossenfeffer 2 points 2 years ago

Does Texas get cold in winter? I really don't know!

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P00ptart 2 points 2 years ago

Let's just say, it feels cold to them.

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TexasDrunk 1 point 2 years ago

Not often. The person who said "it feels cold to them" is about right. But we got a few inches of snow this year and the whole state was shut down by a winter storm a couple of years back.

I've lived in cold places. I'll take upstate New York in winter where they have the infrastructure and mindset to handle it over what happened here a couple of years back. Even the little snow we got this year made a certain group of folks lose their shit. Our infrastructure is made to withstand triple digits in the shade, not the first snowflake of the year.

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TexasDrunk 1 point 2 years ago

Oh, just to add, the panhandle gets pretty chilly, generally in the 20s and 30s F during the winter. But I grew up in northeast Texas and currently live in Houston so that's where a lot of my experiences come from.

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DannyBoy 2 points 2 years ago

I barbecued a lot in the winter but under a covered porch. Where I'm living now I don't have a barbecue yet but I don't expect a Canadian snowfall to slow me down.

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PassingDuchy 1 point 2 years ago
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