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As tender as any I have ever made, but I think that is more the first time ever cooking baby backs
that did that. But I have taken to smoking first for about 90 mins at 200 and then when the smoke dies down,
I stoke the coals again and let em roast for an hour around 250 then I just let the heat die out for another hour
and pull em, provided the meat has shrunk off the bone ends enough to suit me.

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They're still not ready! Ugh....

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Just prepared a 9 pound brisket that will be going on tonight for about 12 hours with an oak/hickory mix. I'll post pics when I do it.

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Watching the Bruins and feeling kind of lazy so I'm using SBR and honey for the sauce.

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Somehow I snapped a pic before I devoured it. :ss

Finally, after 7 hours they passed the bend test! Sorry, I was hungry and barely remembered to snap a pic.

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MMMMmmmmmmmm.

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This was for lunch today Texas - OU game.

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Made a Sausage loaf..... mixed in my own rub...some basil from the garden...sun dried tomatoes...and some mozzarella.....


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Nice! Haven't had anyone posting fattys in this thread in awhile.

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11 pm and on the grill it goes.:D
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6 am
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11am
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Done!:dr
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My first brisket, done Texas style. Came out pretty good. I've always been a tritip guy with beef, may have to rethink that now.

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Looks very tasty.

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Damn looked at this thread and decided I need to go to the market to find something to cook. Not even sure what, but going to load up the kids and head out.

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I am done cooking briskets. I did everything right as far as my skillset allows and I am not happy with
the taste, the consistency, the fat content, any of it. I am glad I tried one, but you gotta like the
meat in the end, and there are other cuts I like a lot more. I much prefer a roast cooked down
on the stove with potatoes and greasy gravy. :) Pits are for Pork, lol.

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It takes a LOT of practice and patience to cook brisket. I am still working on it. I do prefer pork though!

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Yeah, I had a feeling that there were many layers to the mastery,
I just don't like smoked beef for some reason. I should say 'prefer'.
I could see how in a semi-commercial enterprise, however, you would
have to put those feelings aside and learn if you wanted to get business.

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I didn't really learn how to cook brisket until I was forced to when I started competing. After eating lots of shoe leather I have brisket down to were I don't worry about it any more than I do a pork butt. I'm not saying I hit them spot on every time... but when I do I probably enjoy it more than anything I cook. For just plain eating though I love doing chuck rolls even more!!

Gotta agree with Brad on the fat part though. I don't like brisket with the fat cap still on. I started out following conventional wisdom and leaving about 1/4 inch of fat cap on. Now I trim nearly all of the fat cap off and cut all of the yellow fat out between the flat and point. I get a lot better bark/smoke ring that way. As long as I choose briskets with plenty of marbling (sometimes a chore if I can't find CAB briskets) I feel like they are just as moist as anyones. Not saying it is right... it's just how I like them.

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As much as my guests and I enjoyed the brisket, I am still a pork guy and love to cook up some butt, loin and bb ribs!:dr

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Damn Brad, now I gotta run out to the market for a roast! The wife and I love a good roast and you done planted a seed for dinner Bro!:tu

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Put a 4lb pork shoulder on 1 hr ago. Wooot first one. Wife is geeked about me cooking more so looke like a may be smoking 2x a week.

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That brisket looks good!

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Did a pork shoulder Saturday night (16hrs). Came out great. Turned 1/2 into BBQ pulled pork the other 1/2 no sauce for Carnitas. :dr

Sorry no pics. I always forget :su

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Holy Crap, all this BBQ is making me hungry. It all looks amazing, but I think I'm gonna have to try the Burnt Tips next on the Egg.:banger

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My first smoked meatloaf, something I always wanted to try....made 2 2 1/2 lb loaves, dusted with dizzy pig red eye and glazed with a peach bbq glaze...looked lonely on the BDS so added a couple lbs of sweet italian sausage and some pepperoni (which is great on the smoker...renders a lot of the grease out ....snack for Eagles and Phillies tonite)...

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Love me some meatloaf on the smoker... and your's looks wonderful!!! I'm gonna have to try the pepperoni.

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x2

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Leave it on a bit....once the grease is rendered the pepperoni gets "light and airy"......in a pepperoni kinda way!

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x3!!

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The Mrs wants me to smoke a turkey for thankgiving. I have never done one before so this should be interesting.:tu

Thankfully she is gonna cook another one in the oven just in case!!!

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Question for the guys who do catering jobs- do you short your cook times or aim for a lower temp to compensate for something sitting in a warmer for hours? If so, about how much?

Thinking about smoking a fatty or two saturday morning early, then grabbing it and running down to ratter's herf with it(them).

If I use a 3-2-1 cook, then grab it between the 2 and 1, but then it's going to sit for a few hours in a cooler before being eaten. I guess being foil wrapped at that point, I could just put it back on his grill to heat up.

Probably a bad idea to pull it between the 3 and 2 and run with it - that would be 30 minutes between being pulled off the smoker, wrapped in foil and then transported, then finally back on to a grill down at his house. Probably not safe to do that, you think?

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Whether it is for a catering job or for at home I usually shoot for being done about 2 hours before serving time. Them I put whatever it is in a cooler, take up the spare space with old towels, and then let it rest. I will do maybe 5 degrees less on the finishing temp if I am going to hold it 4-6 hours, but other than that I just take it off as I normally would. Believe me... as long as you kind of match the size cooler to what you are holding, it will be nearly as hot as when you put it in. No need to worry about safety.

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Awesome. Thank you, that's what I needed to know.

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I got a 10lb pork belly I need to get curing other wise I will be smoking bacon in the rain or cold...

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I do one of each every Thanksgiving. I have converted several of the regular attendees, but the wife still has to have a roasted bird. I have to admit, I do love the leftovers from the roasted bird. I just finished the last bag out of the freezer last week.

If you want some help with the smoked bird I will be glad to help as time draws near.

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Gotta agree with your wife on this one Brent....I roast a big bird every year....sit down Thanksgiving for 25+....While I've smoked some turkey breasts, for me nothing beats a roasted bird with its crispy skin !

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I usually roast about a 20lber and smoke a 12-14lber. That way everyone gets what they like. As a said though... for leftover turkey sandwiches I go roasted on white bread with LOTS of mayo. It don't get no better!!!:tu

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I like smoked turkey, but only fresh and at that moment it comes off. A day later, meh.

On the rare occasion that I'll do a whole turkey, I just use a weber kettle w/ the weber indirect cook charcoal baskets (or just pile the charcoal on two sides) with Lazzari mesquite charcoal (or KF and smoke wood) and bird rubbed down with spices then packed, and I mean seriously packed, with rosemary and other aromatics.

Best of both worlds to me - the indirect grilling is more like an oven roast for the skin and meat texture and the mesquite charcoal or smoke wood adds a smokey flavor.

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I took the day off to do some work around the house and have a brisket flat with mesquite smoking right now. Got a couple racks of baby backs and a bunch of ABTs with some cherry wood ready to go on a bit later for supper.

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Sounds tasty Chris.....

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Boy this is going to be a great weekend to tend fires!!!

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Salmon going on the Smoker this weekend. Fresh caught from the Trinity River only days ago.
Will post pics later.

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Not getting crazy this weekend... but I do think some Smokin Gator Hot Wings will have to be done for the game tomorrow!!!

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Just rolled two fatties for the herf tomorrow (pics in Brad's Super Fattie Contest thread).

They'll go on at about 6 - 6:30 am tomorrow (I hope), so they should be done by 11am to take to the herf.

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Since they are in the smoker now, I can continue the photo series linked in my previous post here...


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Going into the bbq at zero-dark-and-early this morning...

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Quick peek before checking the meat temperature and rotating the tray 180 because of the hot spot by the fire.


Probably another hour or hour and a half to go, then wrap 'em up in foil and head to the herf.

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This is a lesson to all of you...take two or three pics of everything, because you are not HALF
the photographer you think you are, lol. I failed to follow this maxim and you must suffer the
blurry consequences. But one advantage you get is actually seeing it on the pit. Taking a
picture inside, on foil is just crap. And of course, that's all I ever do. That's when I remember
though. But at least the closeup is in focus. This is a rack of baby backs and some trimmins'
from a few racks of spares I smoked earlier in the summer.

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From earlier - almost forgot to take these photos...


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Sliced up at Ratter's house

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Smoked up a batch of fresh King Salmon I caught last weekend.
Soaked 18hrs in my Aunts special brine receipe.
Smoked for 2hrs over Apple(80%) Alder(10%) and Hickory (10%) at 210*

Cracked pepper on the batch in the top photo and Nutmeg on the batch in the lower pic.



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Fantastic looking stuff there guys!

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I can't find any d*mn charcoal anymore, any suggestions?