Just got my first smoker

[WeezyBengal]

(02-23-2021, 07:34 PM)MileHighGrowler Wrote: Exactly.  Now with BBQ becoming this chic thing for so many people, demand has increased and the prices have gone up (someone talked about tri-tip earlier on also along these lines) for meat, but it's still pretty affordable when you think about it.  And especially if you consider how expensive it is to buy a whole smoked brisket from a restaurant, after meet and wood, you're still saving a ton of money, just investing a lot of time.  And while I'm not sitting with a lot of excess time with a full time job, kids and other hobbies, I don't mind putting the time into something great like a brisket every couple of months. 

I bought an 8 lb pork butt from Kroger for $8. I enjoyed it more than the $100 steak I had at Jeff Rubys the night before. 


I mean that is just insanely cheap. I ate off of it all week. Figure this: 


You have a 1/4 lb pulled pork sandwich for lunch every day for week. Thats 32 servings. 32 servings/$8 = .25 cents 


So your serving size of pork for your lunch (among other things) is only .25 cents. And you get 32 servings of that! 


.25 cents for a really good meal of food is literally unbeatable.