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| End of problem. It is confirmed that the meat cannot be imported. My answer is very simple: WEBER SMOKEY MOUNTAIN.....I will smoke my own. Thank everyone for their help.
Ron from Zurich (via Pittsburgh, PA and Mobile, AL) | |
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Nogatsev, you can order a WSM from Amazon.de (Germany). I tried to get one here but prices were nuts by special order, no one was stocking them.
I've had better results than I did before using an off-set smoker, and it fits on my very narrow balcony.
You can find proper racks of spare ribs now fairly easily, I buy the full racks and trim them down to St. Louis cut, and smoke the rib tips separately after trimming them. Pork shoulder on the bone is easy to find, just ask any proper butcher (supermarkets ten to sell boneless roasts).
Beans easy to find, Mesquite will be the hard part. You can find chips but they are pretty much useless in the smoker, you need chunks. I use apple wood and grape vines, looking for a source for oak but haven't found any locally yet.
You can find Texas Pete hot sauce in a few places, and I've been using a bit of HP Classic barbeque sauce for ribs with good results (sounds heretical, but it's just tomato, sugar, molasses and vinegar, I use very little and all the flavour comes from the meat anyway). it's as good as anything I've made myself, but I don't like fancy sauces on real barbeque anyway.
Good luck on your search, I haven't found anything resembling real American barbeque in the French part of Switzerland yet, and is spite of loving the food here in general, I'm convinced it will be a few years before the Swiss start understanding decent grilled and barbequed meat- everything they do tends to be thinly sliced and marinated in the same mixture of MSG and a bit of paprika, if it's not a Cervelas or veal sausage, or even worse a horrible industrial ham steak of indeterminate origin.
The last few years has seen a definite rise in smokers and decent grills for sale, so a change is coming!
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