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Finally getting to fire up the smoker! :noon :noon

Starting off with a Maple smoked, honey, butter, bourbon glazed turkey and some Asian Style skin on pork belly.

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Dom - did you cure the pork belly prior to smoking? Or did you put it straight on the smoker?

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No cure, marinated then straight to smoker.
I plan on cutting it into chunks and serving it with a hoisin based dipping sauce.

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Looks good Dom!

Getting ready to smoke some spare ribs with pecan logs here.

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No pics = fail but today I did a 15# brisket for my rehersal dinner in two weeks along with some chicken thighs and wings.

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You know Dom, until you posted that I had no idea there was such a dish in the world.
I shop at a LARGE ethnic Supermarket at times, you name it and they sell it, no matter
what country you eat from. Well I was looking for pork bellies, but all I could get were
these strips or blocks of belly. It is hard to turn them into bacon, but I try and I do.
And now you come along and tell me they are actually cut for an asian dish. A little
web research later confirms this. So I have a pack out to thaw in the fridge and on
Saturday I am going to make that dish. Like I need a bunch of fat in my veins.

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From the funny pics thread:
https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net...21324459_n.jpg

It looks a like a smoker, what do you think?

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Without lids, it's just a grill.

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Picked up 2 cases of butts last night for a little cook I'm doing this weekend for the church. Haven't had time to grind up/stuff any venison sausage, but I do have some wild hog sausage left in the freezer that may have to make an appearance this weekend for the guys who come over and hang out while I'm cooking :)

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Those ribs look delicious! Care to share the recipe for the glaze?

Pork Loin Back ribs are going on sale for $1.99/pound tomorrow and I'm picking up a few for when I get back from vacation.

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Quick advice requested... Grilling some burgers right now, and am topping with either:

Slice of deli pastrami, or

Leftover sliced filet mignon from Tuesday night?
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pastrami

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And the quick answer gets it! Ready to add the cheese now, and I was thinking the filet might not hold its own against the burger.

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The gf wanted filet, so I'm making two of each :D

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those are some strange toppings for a burger my friend.

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Fixt. :D

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Filet burger:

http://i161.photobucket.com/albums/t...t/F5C4576F.jpg

And the pastrami burger:

http://i161.photobucket.com/albums/t...t/E6DF450B.jpg

The ground beef was well seasoned with A1, Worcestershire, onion powder, and garlic powder. Also added some oatmeal for good measure.

Put out some dipping sauces. Wouldve been extra good with a slice of onion.

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So, being from kansas city, it's only appropriate that I take up the torch and start doing my own Q. I'm a bit intimidated honestly. My grandfather owned a BBQ restaurant for 25+ years, and my father has placed at several BBQ competitions. Needless to say, BBQ runs in the blood. I've got quite the family history, and city history to live up to.

Anyhow, my inlaws inherited a couple of barrel smokers that I'm welcome to and I'm pretty sure I'll be taking them for their first spin in the coming weeks. I'll let you all know how things turn out.

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Holy oversized pictures batman.

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Damnit. It happened again? Must be snap bucket app being dumb. Happened in another thread today too. Mobile site isn't the greatest for checking the post beforehand.

Just resized them. Hopefully it worked.
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The resize worked. Thanks.

Do you have control over a default resizing with the app? If so, having it change all photos to 800x600 is generally a safe bet.

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Just checked, and nothing. Have to resize it in photobucket after uploading. Stupid design, I guess.
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Don't forget the camera.

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Blake it will be good to see your efforts in pictures here. I have never found a more serious thread in this entire
website than the smoker thread, and almost all of us have learned a tremendous amount since we have been
smoking meat. I periodically shock myself. And it seems I rarely embarrass myself, lol, at least not in cooking.

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I discovered oatmeal one day when I realized I had no crumbs of any kind, nor no eggs in the fridge,
and I thought, I bet oatmeal would work PERFECT in that role.

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125 lbs of pork cruising along at 225...nieghborhood smells amazing!

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Yesterday I Grilled 6 burgers, then readied the smoker to smoke 6 chicken legs and 8 pork fingers,
or "western Style Pork Ribs" I love those things!
When that was done I smoked a slab of bacon that had been cut up for this asian-style pork belly
that Jon brought up the other day. i got ready to commence that recipe and realized I had no braising
wine or soy sauce. So I smoked them and then cut them up last night into bacon. You know, when I
throw up the lid to the smoker and say, MAN THAT LOOKS UNBELIEVABLE, I should get my CAMERA!
I am sad to say that only one photo was taken and even THAT was after the meat had been put up.

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Cooked 125 lbs of pork butt Saturday night for a church picnic yesterday. This time I did a couple of things a little different than I usually do and man did it turn out great. Thanks Brent for letting me steal a couple of your techniques!

I pulled a Smokin' Gator though and didn't take many pictures, just a couple of crappy cell pictures that I was teasing Justin (emopunker) with around 4:00 am while he was working and a couple of hours away from breakfast!

http://oldchurchbbq.com/sharedpictur...0BBQ%20001.jpg

http://oldchurchbbq.com/sharedpictur...0BBQ%20002.jpg

I'll see if dad snapped a couple.

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Nice work, as always...what did you do different....inquiring minds wanna know!

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I tweaked my rub just a little, but the biggest change was after the butts came up to the usual 190* in the smoker, I double wrapped them in foil and put them in a cooler for a while. In the past when cooking like this, I would just hold the butts in the cooker at a low temp (around 140* to keep them out of the "danger zone"), and then I would start pulling about an hour before service time.

This time I pulled them off the smoker and wrapped at 4am, grabbed a couple of hours sleep, then packed up my rig and headed up to the location we would be serving at. I re-fired the smoker and let it come back up to temperature while I set up the tables, etc., and then about an hour before service, we took the meat out of the coolers and pulled it into pans and placed them in the smoker at around 140* until service.

I have not really ever had a problem with my product "drying out" in the past, but I definately felt the meat tasted more moist this time. The other benefit was that I actually was able to get started earlier, therefore finished earlier, and was able to get at least a couple of hours sleep.

If I hadn't of had so much fun sitting up with Graffiti and F100Jeff eating the awesome steaks Graffiti brought, smoking great cigars and drinking quality adult beverages, I probably could have finished up a couple of hours earlier and gotten even more sleep :D

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more "moister" = more better....funny how "quality adult beverages" seem to sneak there way into a lot of topics round here....:D

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:banger:banger

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Saw a good deal on jalapeno white cheddar today.

Bought 20 lbs worth.

It's in the smoker, 5lbs at a time.

FML.



And 2 lbs of German pilsner malt over the last weekend for a rauchbier.

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"Seems how quality adult beverages" seems to sneak into most Q's. :noon

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:chr

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The serving line

http://oldchurchbbq.com/sharedpictur...0BBQ%20003.jpg

Pulled pork, homemade BBQ beans, coleslaw, patato salad, and a bevy of homemade deserts...yum, yum.

I'm eating some left overs I managed to stash away even as I type!

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Very nice Steve!!

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A compliment and a dig in the same post. Not the first time that has happened in these parts!!!

Glad the cook went well brother. As I have said many times... a cooler is your friend. Sleep is good:tu

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Oops...sorry 'bout that Brent. No dig intended. I'm gonna blame it on sleep deprivation :)

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Adding way too much to the freezer, so this weekend I am removing stuff, not putting stuff in. I am thawing a rack of BBRs,
a pack of Flanken Beef Ribs, a 8 pack of Nathan's Hot Dogs I am going to roll in bacon and cook indirectly, and about 8 large
hamburgers. I just bought a couple 3-rack packs of small bone spares but I am not convinced I need to be cooking a lot of
food this week. I am losing a few pounds here and there and one sure way to blow that is to find myself with a lot of lefties
in the fridge. So I can't go to BigLahts either...they ought to call that place Big Pants...I get so much chocolate, chips and
nuts there.

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Well once again I have no on the grill shots of what was a PERFECT day for grilling and photography.
But because I love you guys, I dirtied a plate for the photos.

I cooked a rack of Baby Backs, made up a dozen Mooinkballs, and 'invented' something called Porkapillars.
I just invented the name, I am sure I am not the first person to ever wrap a Nathan's hot dog in bacon
and smoke it. One complaint, the Nathan's hot dog is a salty dog indeed. You add bacon and you can
only eat one of those things or you will die. But DAMN that's a hell of a way to GO!!!

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Those look awesome! Very similar to some chicken legs I cooked the other night. I decided to throw a few cherry wood chunks on the coals after cooking the legs for a bit (originally was just going to grill them real quick). Put the legs on indirect heat, Closed the lid, came back 20-25ish minutes later and had that awesome reddish looking, crispy skin. I whipped up a sauce made from store bought BBQ sauce, mixed with some Louisiana wing sauce, mustard, minced garlic, and brown sugar. They were AWESOME.

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What are the Mooinkballs?

I should pull some back ribs out of the freezer for tomorrow. Grocery store had them on sale for 1.99/pound, so I picked up a few racks.

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half MOO, half OINK...I got that from the other guys on here...meatballs wrapped in bacon. They need to come off
after the first round of smoke, I cooked the water out of these. But I had work to do, and thought they would 'slow-cook'.
But they are just dry. The bacon was done in an hour and a bit. They were on three hours. The hot dogs were also
done early, but man it sure didn't hurt them....exstasy.....er ecstasy

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had a cookout at pnoon's yesterday. i smoked a fattie and a bunch of abt's. used homemade sausage to stuff the abt's. pnoon smoked ribs and chicken. galaga smoked a beef brisket. and cort smoked a couple of chuck roasts. not much really. ha!

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Holy crap. Did we have a lot to eat or what?

Good times.

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X2
http://imageshack.us/a/img713/7898/worthlesswopics.jpg
And they guy holding the "Pichers" sign needs some of that BBQ!

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Made pizza this weekend. Dough needed more water as the crust was a little dry, but pretty good overall.

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7124/6...680021206e.jpg

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Made a couple things yesterday. Had to, as it was out of the freezer already. Didn't get to eat any of it, on account of being sick. :(

WTF are you supposed to do with boneless pork "country style" ribs, you ask? Why, you season them and wrap them in bacon, of course! Also threw on a small rack of back ribs (can't have empty space!)

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