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Happy Mother's Day Smoke lovers! Threw a cryopack of Small Bone Spare Ribs on the barbie today.
The dogs were elated. These freaking things almost made me forget Baby Backs. Perfectly cooked and
not a bad smoke job either. I had some red potaatoes cooked up and mashed them with a fork, threw some Zatarain's
creole seasoning and butter on em and Mange'...mamamia these things were fantastic. have two racks to bring
to work tomorrow.

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Ok, I gave into the peer pressure to try some baby backs...getting ready to pull them off now.

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If it would stop drizzling, I am planning to do another pizza (bbq chicken).

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Nope. I usually make my own from scratch.

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Spare ribs after 6 hours

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All of you have cooked up some great looking ribs. Momma wanted to go out for pasta this evening so that's what she got but I would have rather stopped by one of your houses for those ribs....LOL.

Nice job guys!!!

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I'll save you the trouble in two words: It sucks.

It used to be exceptional up until about 3-4 years ago, it would yield these great crispy chewy thin crusts. Did you ever get a chance to eat at the original Jacopo's in BH before they closed and sold the name? It was like their old crust. Very NY-ish.

So good that half the time I wouldn't even bother to make dough, I'd just buy it from them. But then they reformulated it, took out at least one of the key ingredients that gave it that fantastic texture and flavor and now, seriously, it's just crappy pulp with no flavor.

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I've used their plain crust (not the herbed or wheat) a couple of times and it was good. Crispy bottom and a nice chew when we used a pizza stone in the oven at 550.

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I smoked up (2) 7lb Bone-In Prok Shoulders Friday night. 1 for BBQ Pulled and the other for Carnitas. Sorry, all I got was the before pics & we've all seen those.
Came out great. They go so quick, I might have to start smoking 3-4 at a time. :noon

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Pardon the ignorance, whats the difference between Pulled and Carnitas?? They are both shreded-ish pork right??

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Isn't Prok on the California Endangered Species list Brent?;)

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I thought P'rok was Spocks inbred stepbrother.

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LOL, sorry it was my left-handed typing techniques :sh

Ya it was pork not prok.

Kirk, no difference in the shredded pork. I just added BBQ sauce to one and nothing to the other (will use for carnitas.)

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Yeah, especially when they mess something up for the silliest of reasons. They made the dough healthier. It's a pizza for crying out loud, it's not exactly healthy to begin with, was it really necessary to take the lard out and replace it with low fat oil that yields a dough with totally different (and totally suck-ass) characteristics?

If they had at least used olive oil as the substitute, then I might have forgiven them, but of course that would have driven the price up.

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Better late than never.

http://www.cigarasylum.com/vb/showthread.php?t=45437

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ok not really smoked, but i did do some grilling on my egg which is also my smoker, i did throw some jack daniels smoking pellets in...

So did some chicken, hamburgers, bella mushroom caps(my favorite), baked potatoes, and squash all on the grill tonight, here are a few pics.... Also my wife likes here burger well done, and thin, so she cut it in half, and low and behold it looks like a flipping smoke ring, it was sweet... i did throw in some jack Daniels smoking pellets for about an hour cook... O well it was darn good...

http://heavyequipmentrepair.com/dod/...q/051011/7.jpg
http://heavyequipmentrepair.com/dod/...q/051011/5.jpg
http://heavyequipmentrepair.com/dod/...q/051011/2.jpg

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Did some spare ribs, armadillo eggs and ABTs on the cheap bullet smoker last weekend. First cook of the year.

But I've got 2 pork butts, a packer brisket and corned beef (for pastrami) in the freezer ready to go!!

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I'm preparing to smoke 2 racks of spareribs and roast some red potatoes this afternoon in the brick oven.

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Anyone have a good ABT recipe? Wanting to try some out on the smoker this weekend. Would also love to try something a bit more out of the ordinary other than the standard pork fare, so something geared more towards an appetizer type of thing would be nice. Any suggestions? Thanks!

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2 boston butts tomorrow....

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Mr. Know it All has a question....when you do shoulders, do you smoke with that thick piece of skin on it
or do you like to trim that away? I like pig skin but I imagine it ain't too hot smoked. I also think it would
inhimit smoke penetration. Any ideas or preferences??

Went out to the store at lunch and picked up two shoulders and 4 racks of BBRs. I need to stock up while
the BBRs are onsale, cause I have a feeling it's gonna be a smoky summer. I also have a family gig in Aug
where I will have to feed about 15 up in the smokies. My freezer is NOT big, lol. Gonna be touch and go.

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I smoked 2 slabs of spareribs (trimmed to ST. Louis) in the brick oven yesterday. I used charcoal as the heat source, lighting them using the Minion method and threw in chunks of cherry wood for smoke. They turned out good.

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Did you get a picnic instead of a Boston Butt?? A picnic is still a shoulder but it is cooked as you would do a ham. If you are talking about a Boston Butt, I have never seen a Butt with skin on it, just a large fat cap.

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Agree; it's got to be a picnic and I would certainly cut the skin off for the exact reasons you mentioned. The picnic is much more "hammy" and is great itself, but won't be like the other half typically known as shoulder (for pulled pork usually).

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Wayner is a funny character. He knows I know what a butt is, lol.
This thing is in no way COVERED with skin, maybe 1/5th. But I agree, I think I should pay a little closer attention.
I have seen 'shoulders' that are twice as long as this. (not two butts in a bag) I am guessing that they are both
parts in one.
Lemme go and check the freezer. haha, yep, picnic.

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A shoulder is a picnic and a butt together. The butt is the upper part of the shoulder and the picnic is going down the leg.

To me they cook the same and taste the same. I cut that skin off just 'cause it is ugly as heck... but there is not that much meat under it so it doesn't really matter either way, and cook it just like a butt.

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YEs...this.


And on a side note, my temperature took a dive last night sometime down to 150* :jd

Sneaking back up on 205 now. :tu

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Well, it's ON THERE now so no going back. I am cooking up the skin for the doggies to chew on and think
they got some kind of great scraps. They are so grill-spoiled. If I am cooking 5 burgers, they always get one
crumbled up and hand fed. If I cook ribs, 2-3 racks, I will end up feeding them about half a rack. The best is
the rib trimmings from st.louisizing. They feast.

Anyway, I'll know if I like em in about 5 hours. I just know they were cheap, about 5 bucks each.

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brad, thats awesome
I bet those dogs love the smell of the grill firing up more than you do!

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I always defer to Brent, as he is the pro and all around pitmaster.


Here are a couple decent diagram of pork cuts:

http://0.tqn.com/d/culinaryarts/1/0/g/H/-/-/picnic.jpg

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_CleRr46Nh1.../pork+cuts.jpg

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Nice diagrams...I had always seen the beef ones but never went looking for the hog.
I wonder why they call it a "picnic"? Interesting term. Not as interesting is I put three
racks worth of St.Louis-ize trimmings on the smoker with the picnic and pulled it all off
the grill and divvied it up already. Meaning without pics. Dangit. I WILL shoot the roast.

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OK, let there be meat. The picnic has an hour at least to go, don't know, I have no thermometer.
But I do know meat, lol. It comes off when it's ready. ;) We got a picnic and some Rib Trimmins
from three racks o ribs I trimmed up last weekend.

http://i954.photobucket.com/albums/a...ibtrimmins.jpg
http://i954.photobucket.com/albums/a...nicbuttend.jpg
http://i954.photobucket.com/albums/a...nichockend.jpg

The trimmins were VERY good, even having to go around bones and cartilage, just exccellent flavor and smoke.

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THAT looks delishus.

2 Boston Butts went on last night at 11pm (Central) 15 hours later, they are hanging out at 178*. Dome temp of 210.

COME ON DAMMIT.....I am hungry.

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Going on the smoker right now!!!

http://i1135.photobucket.com/albums/...g?t=1305403148

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Looks good Brad!

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A great looking start Earl!

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I just lined up a small cook for early June, a couple hundred punds of pork butt, a couple of cases of ribs, and probably a couple of packers. Hopefully it wont heat up to uch by then!

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Sounds like fun.

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Let it cook on the grill for another 45 minutes, then finished it in foil in the oven while I took a lil nap,
slathered it with Sweet Baby Ray's and broiled it for another few minutes. Pulled it with a couple forks
and promptly froze it, lol.

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My old cook team partner and I did our first competition in a long while this weekend. It was in the town where I live so there was no excuse for not doing it!!

Finished third in pork, fifth in both chicken and brisket, fifteen in ribs and 6th overall (I think) out of 36 pro teams. I have no idea what happened to the ribs... they were so over done it wasn't funny. If we would have done what we usually do in ribs (usually a strength) we could have easily gotten our first Grand Championship.

Oh... and we won People's Choice for the first time ever. That was pretty cool as we never really pay much attention to that butt. We just season it, cook it, pull it, and pour whatever half empty bottles of sauce are in the trailer over it.

I sure wish I had the time to do more comps... This weekend really made me miss it!!!

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I guess you are just going to have to practice more on your ribs...I'm sure about 300 of your closest friends would volunteer to critique them for you :D

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I know I would.

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Right where you'd think for being a BBQ guy, lol. I had a good time this weekend. I don't mess with butts much,
not a fan of having a lot of pulled pork in the fridge. I cook for practice and fun and take most of it to work to share.
Otherwise I'd be 400 lbs. So mostly I cook ribs cause that's what I like. But this time I decided to put some of this
thread into practice. I used to only eat butt roast out of the oven, and then only in winter for the free heat and
wonderful aroma. Then I started smoking them, but never getting it all that spectacularly done, pulling it out
early, slicing instead of pulling. Put while I would NEVER foil ribs, it sure did a number on that picnic. Man, talk about an
easy pull and great flavor. Used no liquids in the foil, but it worked out great.

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3 racks of spare ribs and 24 ABT's are on the fire. Can't wait to try out these ABT's since this will be a first. .