Big Mama's 31 Oddly Useful Southern BBQ Tricks That Will BLOW YOUR MIND & MAKE LIFE EASIER!!!

📖 Get all 356 of Grandma's secrets here: https://earlenetatum.com There is a rusty coffee can with holes punched all around the bottom sitting next to the grill in my yard right now. That can is how I light my fire, and it cost me nothing. You know how it usually goes at a cookout. Half a bottle of lighter fluid, a whoosh, everybody steps back, and twenty minutes later the chicken is black on the outside and red at the bone. Then you decide you are just not a grill person. The chicken was fine. So were you. Callie Mae was my Big Mama. There was no man in that house to light the fire, so she lit it herself, every Saturday from April to October. In this one I give you all 31 of her yard tricks, counting down. The coffee can, the half onion on the grate, the pan of water under the ribs, the brick on the chicken, the paper sack, and the one she did with the back of her hand. I saved that one for last. Here is the whole thing, in order: 0:00 The coffee can by my grill 2:43 #31 The coffee can 3:51 #30 The two sides of the grill 4:25 #29 Waiting for the ash 5:16 #28 The half onion 5:46 #27 The greasy rag 6:26 #26 Wood from the yard 7:12 #25 Yellow mustard 7:48 #24 The jar 8:29 #23 Friday night 9:01 #22 The pickle jar 9:34 #21 Sweet tea 10:09 #20 The mop 10:42 #19 The pan of water 11:21 #18 Cornbread under the ribs 11:58 #17 The collard leaf 12:41 #16 The brick 13:21 #15 The lid 13:52 #14 The tongs 14:19 #13 The sauce 15:02 #12 Peach preserves 15:39 #11 The lard 16:05 #10 Corn in the coals 16:47 #9 The drip jar 17:19 #8 The paper sack 17:55 The summer I forgot all of this 19:12 #7 The smoke 19:48 #6 The bend 20:23 #5 The bone 20:48 #4 Two plates 21:36 #3 The tasting spoon 22:12 #2 Feeding the fire small 23:04 #1 The back of her hand 25:12 What is coming next There is a new recipe here every single day. Next time I am doing ribs in the oven. A lot of you put your ribs in the slow cooker and walk away all day, and they come out grey and soft, sliding off the bone into the juice. That is a boiled rib wearing barbecue sauce. You did nothing wrong. Big Mama cooked her ribs in the oven of that same wood stove, and there was one thing she would not put on that pan.