Re: What's in your smoker?
 

Gonna KILL IT this weekend....2 racks of beef ribs, 2 racks of baby backs, a small Boston Butt and likely
my arm hairs will all burn this weekend. Got to cook for the family that I will be seeing on Sunday.
Thought really hard about cooking Sunday at the crack of Dawn, but the bit(h dumped me. :r

No but seriously, We won't be eating til 6:00pm Sunday evening, and I have to cook and drive to the Smokies,
a 6 hour ride. Usually I cook on Saturday, foil it and refrigerate it. But it is NEVER as good re-heated,
so I am seriously considering foil and towels and ice chest this year. That's probably 10-12 hours in
the ice chest. I have heard all of you towelers say that it is no biggie. We'll see.

Re: What's in your smoker?
 

Enjoy the cook Brad... but I personally think that is too long in the cooler. I would feel uncomfortable with anything over six hours.

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That's what I wanted to hear...I don't get COMPLAINTS about the taste ever, but you and I know that
re-heated ribs get some kind of taste I never like, it seems to be a bone-related deal, it just tastes off
to me. I will get cracking on the cook for today I guess.

Re: What's in your smoker?
 

This was basically all i was going to cook this morning, this and a butt....then Brent convinced me it would
be a good idea on a family vacation if I did not POISON my family. Still, it was smoked meat, I think I coulda
pulled it off. But why?

Here are the first victims.....A couple packs of Nathan's Hot dogs wrapped in the finest bacon. This bacon
kicked a55....it enabled me to wrap every freaking millimeter of these dogs without any showing through.
Hot dog skins don't like heat, and really get ugly if you don't cover em.

http://i954.photobucket.com/albums/a...ansHotdogs.jpg

Re: What's in your smoker?
 

OK, halfway through with the smoking....nother hour or so then I will sauce these items and get em carmelized and
be done with another Smoky Mountain Smokefest. Everyone will pretend to be hungry and will eat the food but
not be able to really hit it. A couple of em were just in Switzerland for a month, the rest are New Yorkers who
have been in the south for almost a month and are likely fed up with heat, and everyone will have just had a
4 or a 6 hour ride to get to the cabin. They will mean well but be just too hot and tired to eat. That will mean
dozens of rib sammiches for the rest of the week for me and my B.I.L. :D

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X2

Re: What's in your smoker?
 

Brent,

http://www.cigarasylum.com/vb/showpo...postcount=3345

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As usual, I was so jazzed to get the food off the grill and into the house, ever more in this wretched heat,
that I failed to take the best final photo I have seen in a long time. I mean PERFECTLY carmelized.
Usually I take em off early and the sauce is blazing hot but not carmelized. It will still take your SKIN off
if you make the mistake of getting some of that hot sauce on you. But it's not PHOTO ready.
What I DID manage to do was take a few shots of the half-rack of beef ribs and the short ribs that
came off early as they were too done to leave on. The taste was incredible. Too bad they will all be
eaten re-heated :( (I also took a rib from the top and used it to cover a blinding foil spot in the lower rt.)

http://i954.photobucket.com/albums/a...nshortribs.jpg

Re: What's in your smoker?
 

Wow! Give me some hot dog buns, mustard, and sauerkraut, and I'm good...


Those ribs look edible to me Brad:dr

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Killer pics Brad... I hope everyone enjoyed your efforts!!

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Damn Brad, great pics:dr:dr

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The short ribs sucked a55, the beef ribs were great, I didn't even get a BONE of pork back ribs, and the hot dogs
are always a giant success. Pulled pork was great, too. The big hit was my gumbo. I had to steal Gumbo and
Red Beans from my dear mother who was slipping badly on those items. But her Cannelloni was spectacular
and her roast was just OK. It rained a lot which made us realize how infrequently we have had rain on our trip
in the past 5-6 years. Pre-cooking all those major meals has really been a great time saver allowing us to roll out
of a day hiking in the park and sit down and eat whenever we want to.

Re: What's in your smoker?
 

I've done a few racks of Babybacks this year and I'm definitely going to squeeze in some more before the season ends.
I'm craving babybacks!!

Re: What's in your smoker?
 

My rub:
1 Cup Dark Brown Sugar
1/2 Cup Paprika
2-1/2 TBS Course Black Pepper
1-1/2 tsp Chili Powder
1-1/2 TBS Garlic Powder
1-1/2 TBS Onion Powder
1 tsp Cayenne (Red Pepper)
2 TBS Kosher Salt

Re: What's in your smoker?
 

This thread should not exist. I'm so hungry.

Re: What's in your smoker?
 

Temperature is down, humidity is up, rain is in the air, lets start the smoker!!

Ribs found in the freezer from the $6 sale back in March. Wish I could find that price now!

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8285/7...520779e1_z.jpg
IMAG0101 by kydsid, on Flickr

Re: What's in your smoker?
 

Nice, Jason!!!! What time should I be there? :)

Re: What's in your smoker?
 

Added some smoked mac n cheese


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IMAG0102 by kydsid, on Flickr

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Dinner is served.

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IMAG0104 by kydsid, on Flickr

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Magnifique

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Wow, me want food. I think now that the world has slowed down for me I am gonna bust
open the freezer and spend some quality time in the BY. My podna downtown is back in
his condo, home of the other Jimmy Buffet machine in town, he says the pool is rockin,
and he wants to taste my new buttery nipple smoothie. Some BBQ would go well with
those particular variables. All I have left is spares....but sometimes son, spares is enough.

Re: What's in your smoker?
 

Going to cook up a couple packs of western-style Pork Ribs this weekend, still not crazy about that term.
Looks like butt cut down into sliver-slabs...That and I have a small rack of beef ribs to get to. Might do
it tonight if it cools off some.
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Looks like hot with widely scattered patches of Hot as Fu(&....Smoke em in the morning.

Re: What's in your smoker?
 

2 Boston Butts go on tonight around 11.

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WOW, what a fantastic smoke I have going out there this morning. It is a light rain sitcho, been that way since
early this morning, but all my stuff is under a pretty dense canopy. So all I ever get is the occasional giant
drop in the face.
The thin, blue trail coming up out of the chimney is PERFECT and it has been rolling for hours like that.
I rarely get my smoke perfect. And I rarely have it combusting at such a temp as to stay dead constant.
This is gonna be sweet. I will go get a pic and hope it is still perfect.

Re: What's in your smoker?
 

.
Don't leave the House without it.....

http://i954.photobucket.com/albums/a...omeSauceyo.jpg

I smoked the ribs for two hours and am now cooking them down a bit on
low with a coat of Sweet Baby Rays

http://i954.photobucket.com/albums/a...e-Rayssauc.jpg


Pre Snkbyt Application. hese have been cooking with Rays for an hour...

http://i954.photobucket.com/albums/a...eefribsAug.jpg

Poured the jar f snkbyt into another sauce container, then wiped the extra out of the jar with
a basting brush and applied the sauce to the meat where it rests now cooking off the liquidity
of the sauce. that picture to come...

Re: What's in your smoker?
 

Sweet and spicy success
.
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Re: What's in your smoker?
 

Lookin good, Brad! :tu

Got my first butt in a long time on now.

http://i867.photobucket.com/albums/a...g?t=1345914728

Re: What's in your smoker?
 

Turns out, the jerks at HEB grocery mislabeled my pork. Labeled as Pork Butt. Actually, they were Picnic Roasts. Put them on anyway. I have never done pulled pork from a Picnic Roast. I am still taking my receipt to finagle a refund. At least partially.

Idiots.

Re: What's in your smoker?
 

No worries, I have done Pulled pork from a picnic numerous times.
Both the Butt and the picnic are part of the shoulder.
I'm sure it will be just as delicious! :tu

Re: What's in your smoker?
 

Haven't done pulled pork in a while.
It's just like riding a bike, though.

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Re: What's in your smoker?
 

I should not be viewing this thread before I eat supper.

My frozen burrito w/a side of mac 'n cheese is gunna taste even worse now :sh

Re: What's in your smoker?
 

It did actually come out pretty good. The picnic roast has a slightly different taste. Not better or worse, but different.

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i LIKE THE HAMMIER FLAVOR OF IT IN PULLED PORK. AND CAPS LOCK.

Re: What's in your smoker?
 

I cooked for my son's 21st birthday this weekend. I cooked 3 pork shoulders and 12 racks of ribs for Friday night and 10lbs of fatties for breakfast on Saturday. Dang sure enjoyed having a bunch of kids around that can eat like I wish I could eat!!

Re: What's in your smoker?
 

Nice looking work Dom. :dr

Re: What's in your smoker?
 

Sorry buddy, this is a photo thread. The forum for wild, unsustantiated, supposed cooks
without corroborating pics is down the street.




:r

This was the final pre-pull shot after an hour in snkbyt sauce....I have given away 1/4 of the food
by this time

Re: What's in your smoker?
 

This recipe is a modification of the Bob Lilly method. I plan to get some pork butt in the morning, get it set up and them plop it on about 9pm tomorrow night. We'll see if bigwaved is right about this method.

http://www.meatwave.com/blog/barbecu...-pork-shoulder

Re: What's in your smoker?
 

Great pics Brad and Dom. My mouth is watering wating for my lame lunch to arrive.

Re: What's in your smoker?
 

I need to find more pork fingers like the ones I did this weekend. You never know where they are cut from.
The ones I did Saturday had distinct bones in them that told me they were cut from the shortest and flattest
loin rib like on a baby back rack. The meat was just unbelievably tender and delicious. I don't always get that
with a 'western style pork rib". I do love em, though.

Re: What's in your smoker?
 

Sorry Brad... I will try to remember that!!:D

The thing is... I usually have really good intentions, but somehow I just rarely make the pics happen. I am doing about 100lbs of pork butts this weekend for a charity lunch after church on Sunday. I will REALLY try to take some pics to earn my way back into your good graces:banger

Re: What's in your smoker?
 

Loading the Brandywine light I see Brent :)

Re: What's in your smoker?
 

Yeah... but I am working on a guy selling a Lang 60 Deluxe!!! He wants a little too much and I want to pay a little too little!!!!

Re: What's in your smoker?
 

4 slabs of baby back ribs with homemade dry rub this Sunday in the Char Griller Pro with offset firebox. Smoked with Pecan wood (one of my faves) Turned out OK this time, but cooking time was hindered by humidity since they were smoked during a thunderstorm. Had to finish them in the oven :mad:

Re: What's in your smoker?
 

Raspberry chipotle chicken skewers. Then pork shoulder for overnight.

Re: What's in your smoker?
 

breakin out the smoker this weekend for the first time this year. I can't wait.

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Sounds fairly decent Mark:tu

Bout time Earl;)

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Recipe please...:dr

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Go to the nearest New Seasons Market and buy them from the butcher case.

They were tasty. Sometimes I can get them to share the recipe, which is almost always "made with ingredients that you can buy in the store", so I'll ask the next time I am in. Likely to be a marinade sold commercially.

edit: just found this one. Looks quite tasty and easy to vary. http://allrecipes.com/recipe/raspberry-chipotle-sauce/

Re: What's in your smoker?
 

Seven Briskets and two pork butts went on early this morning. Chicken breast and sausage to follow this afternoon, and I got the crazy idea I needed to try smoking a lamb shoulder... We shall see how it goes! Hopefully I will have time to get the pics up this evening, but I may be too full! :dance:

Re: What's in your smoker?
 

2 pork shoulders went on WSM at 7:00 PM last night. I checked at 5:00 AM and temp was down to 150. I brought them inside and did 2 hours in the oven at 225. Covered them will pull them this evening for soft tacos with mango salsa.