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I'm in KC this week, so all things BBQ. Talking to one of the new guys at the plant, says he spends time with regulars at the KC American Royal competition. Mentioned how these guys use a UDS, but with a vertical charcoal feeder. Reading up on it, sounds like an adaptation of a Stubbs smoker, but on a UDS. Uses a 6" steel pipe, capped, with the fire box on the bottom and a PID controlled fan to heat the UDS. I haven't been able to find a link or image online yet, but look up a Stubbs smoker for an idea of how it works. Sounds pretty cool. Load it up and let the PID take over.

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Do you know when the Dixieland sale is over Peter?

EDIT: Just looked it up...29th of this month

Yep. Sunday.
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I've got some St. Louis ribs rubbed with Memphis Dust getting ready to go on the WSM in a bit. Going to smoke with one chunk hickory, one apple. No pictures as they'll look the same as the ones on the previous page. :)

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I have been in need of a new grill for a few years now. About 4 years ago my charcoal grill crapped out so I started using the propane grill my wife's grandparents gave us when we got married. 2 years ago, the internals of that grill rusted out so I gutted it and turned it into a charcoal grill. The issue with that is that there are so many holes in a propane grill that the charcoal would heat up so quickly and burn out so quickly that I only got about 15 minutes of cook time. Well this year my mom gave me $300 for my birthday so I went out and bought a new grill.

https://fbcdn-sphotos-e-a.akamaihd.n...1bf3c360d655f0

It has an infared burner, propane grill, charcoal grill, and a smoker box. I broke it in today by cooking a pineapple brat, a new york strip, and a bone in ribeye.

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:tu

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Cool pit.

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That is cool, and a neat use of an old 1/2bbl keg, although it looks to be more of a chimenea than a cooking apparatus.

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True. The place that makes these is calling it a fire pit. So definitely more like a chimenea.

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You can actually buy these? Too cool.

BTW - wasn't knocking you or it about it being a firepit, just making a comment.

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Just looked on google and there seem to be a ton of them out there and not limited to Minions. R2-D2 (of course), Darth Vader, Homer Simpson, Stormtroopers, even a Dalek. Neat.

Looks like I was mistaken on it being a keg with one of the collars cut off and a dome welded on top, seems to be a propane tank or air compressor tank.

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My wife's grandmother wanted a brisket flat and couldn't find a good price. I picked up a full packer at R.D. So, I removed the point and split the cost with her. It's in the freezer now but it will become burnt ends eventually; hopefully sooner than later.

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No offense taken. I had to go back and reread myself. I saw the word pit and didn't think twice about it.

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Yeah, I never thought to associate "pit" with "fire pit", so regional dialect blunder on my part. I took pit to mean some sort of cooking device as expanded slang for the chamber.

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Did two ~2lb hams for dinner tomorrow. Brined in a maple/bourbon brine, smoked over apple wood.

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...:dr:dr

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:tpd: :dr

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Finally ordered my new offset smoker. 100# capacity! Now I can get a little more serious about my smoking. Time to go by the spices to make my dry rub to get prepped for a great summer!

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Finally got some decent enough weather to fire up the smoker this past weekend.
I also got a chance to use my new Stoker II.
After just one use, it's easy to see the Stoker is far superior to the pitmaster IQ I was using to control my pits.

Did a turkey and some meatball onion bombs.

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Looks like rain all week here. Hoping the clouds move out by the weekend.

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:dr

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Hmmmm those meatballs give me an idea ... or four. Looking good Dom!

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Sorry. forgot to take pics., but on Easter Sunday, we smoked two 4lb boneless Lamb Roast, the kind with poppers in them. We first marinated them overnight with Olive Oil, copped up Thyme, salt & pepper. We let them cook until the poppers opened and then waited another 20 minutes before taking them out. Then we let them set for about 20 minutes, before slicing them up, about 1/4" slices. Man Oh Man, it was out of this world. Just the very slightest amount of pink, very slight. It was amazing!

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Did some ribs on the Pit barrel, Sunday.

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And a stuffed Eye Round on the Traeger, yesterday.

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Those meatball onion bombs look amazing....

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I have 60-70 pounds of pork butts sitting in the fridge waiting on Saturday...

:dr

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Nice work!...looks mighty tasty...though the take-out pizza we had the day before was good too! :D

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Half way to completion (11 hours in). Small (9 lbs) but it will be tasty.

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Looking good, Mark.
How was the finished product?

Did some beef ribs yesterday. I think I could've let them go a little longer.
I marinated them first and used a simple spice rub. This is now my favorite way to do beef ribs. So flavorful!

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Saturday I did a mess of pork and bbq beans for a church picnic on Sunday, some ribs for me while cooking, and a chicken for the family.

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When God give you rain, sometimes you just gotta take a shower...especially in the middle of a 12 hour cook!
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Dry in there
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Gas shortage, what gas shortage? Not with 2 pans of these!
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Final Stretch
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I did mention it was the final stretch, right?
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Finished and resting
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A little something form me...
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Normally I would trim these down if I was serving them to the "public", but for me...I ain't picky!

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Test drove the new to me Pit Barrel Cooker with a couple racks of baby backs

https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7661/...36aab4db_z.jpg

I'm calling it a win

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Well I've been out of town a lit since Christmas so as of yesterday there was two cockroaches in my smoker. A little 900 degree fire later and I assume they are gone. :p

Hope to fire her up this weekend for the first smoke of 2015.

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Some good looking cooks, men! I'm seriously considering getting a PBC now to replace my WSM. I've get to get an extension put in off of my back patio first, though, so I have somewhere to put the grill and smoker at the new house.

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Looks good Vin!!! Never thought I'd see the day…:-)

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Excellent job Vin!!

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Some wonderful pulled pork on the Traeger. I just got this smoker/grill and love it!

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Anyone ever use pellets mixed in with charcoal in their WSM?

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Matt that looks :dr

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I never have; I just like the wood chunks that smolder and last longer. I don't use wood chips either. Have you and/or what benefits do you think there are?

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Same here, chunks only. They work so well I've never even considered going trying pellets.

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Tried it once with a handful of Trager pellets to see how they did, they performed about how I expected, which is to say that they weren't really any different than dry wood chips. Be ok to use with a charcoal or gas grill for smoke bombing the food, but not really that useful in a charcoal smoker, at least for me.

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Tossed a Boston butt on about an hour ago. Last minute thing. Rubbed with garlic olive oil and Tony's seasoning.

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Pastrami. w/ homemade sauerkraut, barrel fermented pickles, mustard & smoked cheese (I forgot to buy emmentaler, so I had to substitute)

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Don't think they needed any trimming for me!


:D...Rookie;)

Mighty fine looking meat everybody:dr

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Adam, that is some good looking pastrami!

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Looking for a pellet grill? Today only on Woot, unless it sells out before midnight.

http://tools.woot.com/?ref=cnt_sb_tg_4

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Thanks for the heads up, Bob. The price is very tempting.

Do you have any experience with the Camp Chef pellet grills?

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I will in a few weeks. I pulled the trigger. It's a small grill size, but I dont usually do large cooks anyway. Plus I'll still always have my Bradley, but I've wanted a pellet grill for a while.

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Cool, we can compare notes. I just bought one too. :tu

Kind of the same reasons, I've been eyeing to add a pellet grill to the fleet for some time now. I wanted larger, but but don't really need "larger" all that often and I couldn't find anyone local who wanted to split an order of two 969s from Pellet Pro (normally $1k ea, or two for $1500 w/ free freight).

And at this price, a larger one would be double the cost for only about a 50% gain in lower grate area. Looks like this will hold two 16-ish lb turkeys or two 8-10 lb pork butts, which is more than sufficient for most of what I do.