Cheater smokers has made it easy to poop out shitty bbq. Digital temp read out, gas fire pellets, smoke level monitors, timers, temp fall off control, etc, any delta alpha can do "bbq" now. Set it and forget it. Now of that 12 hours of monitoring. The shitty bbq pisses me off when I eat it.

Give them a reversed flow offset smoker with a pile of wood and they couldn't even figure out how to lite the fire.

Forget about how to get a good smoke ring, what a draw is, how to handle stall, when to use a water pan, when to wrap, or how to convert fats to sugars without boiling the meat.

Yes, I BBQ. Doing a beef brisket tomorrow.

I known what you mean. There's a very "fake country" look that some of the white collar city kids are into.

To me, this lacks the character of the real country folk that I like.