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04-12-2010, 06:10 AM | #421 |
Just plain insane!
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Re: What's in your smoker?
Here is the dinner:
Pulled chuckie Rib tips cole slaw potato salad hog peach beans cake for dessert (not shown)!!! |
04-12-2010, 08:08 AM | #422 |
Dad Jokester Supreme
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04-12-2010, 08:44 AM | #424 | |
Don't knock the Ash...
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04-12-2010, 08:58 AM | #425 |
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This weekend I FINALLY pulled my head out of my azz long enough to realize
that the reason I rarely ever finish a Boston Butt is that I can't get the smoke ring down into that huge chunk of meat. I love smoked pork, but that's alot of pork that is just OK tasting. So barring a Cajun Injector, I just gave up. Then I thought derh, cut it up into pieces. So I had a butt this weekend and I cut 5 pieces about 5 inches long x 4 inches deep and wide and left the bone in section as just a 5 or 6 inch cube. I arranged them out with a few pieces of boudin blanc and let em smoke away. Came back after three hours and re-established my coal pile and added more hickory chunks and went another 3 hours....In one word. Perfection. I am never cooking a butt whole again. At least for my consumption. I waste so much meat, just because I love to cook outdoors. I might cook a butt and two racks of ribs, and I am bored with it after a few days, and it's just me eating it. Sometimes my landlady will take a bunch, but like I said, I am cooking just for the pleasure in cooking. Now at least I can cook a whole butt and eat it, too. |
04-12-2010, 08:59 AM | #426 |
Swamp Ash member in exile
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It was an awesome supper indeed. You're in for a treat Keith when u finally get to taste it at EPIC III
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04-12-2010, 09:14 AM | #427 | |
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I need to pick up a bag of quikcrete today, I guess I will try this out. As for fuel though, I am really a lump charcoal guy. Mostly cause of the fact that briquets are $hit for big cooking. Like was said elsewhere, you get store brand or cheap and it burns store brand and cheap. Spend your whole day getting your pile hot again. The chunk is the only thing I find burns for long periods. I also burn trash sticks alot, as I have several pecan trees around. I use sticks and twigs to get my fire going, then add the charcoal and wait 15 mins and i am rolling. Thanks for the tip on the Rancher stuff. |
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04-12-2010, 09:29 AM | #428 |
Don't knock the Ash...
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No doubt about it!
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04-12-2010, 09:38 AM | #429 | |
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private affair. The basics are not even set in stone. When you get to the preferences, it just goes into so many tangents. But it is VERY GOOD to be so prolific a poster on the subject, and the photos are great, too. Personally, I need to be more disciplined about photos. My butt chunks were so gorgeous this weekend that I think they would have played pretty nice here. But it is a smart man that says "I don't want to come off as a know-it-all" because it is very easy to do so. I think everyone here who posts alot is basically saying, " I know a $hitload about this, and this is what works for me. If you think you want to follow my advice, this is what you can expect. Your mileage may vary." I think these threads are a great bazaar of ideas and results and tips and pics. If you can't read the whole thread and emerge a better smoker, you just ain't tryin. |
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04-12-2010, 09:44 AM | #430 |
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04-12-2010, 10:35 AM | #431 |
Country Gentleman
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Re: What's in your smoker?
OLS, I have had good results too by cutting up a butt. I get more bark that way. However, I don't use that small of chunks/strips. Mostly I just cut a whole butt in half.
If you like those strips/chunks you made, you can always buy Country Style Ribs at your local grocery. All they are is a Pork butt that the butcher has cut up. Sometimes they can be found at lower than whole butt prices.
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04-12-2010, 11:04 AM | #433 | ||
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To me, I've found that it doesn't matter if it's briquettes or lump; cheap is cheap and crap is crap and being cheap doesn't necessarily make it crap, and crap isn't always cheap. True there is a greater number of fuels that are both cheap and crappy in the same bag. Some of the cheap briquettes are pretty bad (usually house brands), as are some of the cheap lumps (like cowboy, best of the west, imported royal oak). But there are also some really good inexpensive lumps (US made royal oak) and some good inexpensive briquettes (and KF is actually very reasonably priced when purchased in large 30-40+lb packs) Some cooks like briquettes, some like lump, some like logs. It's whatever works for you, as there is no one be-all, end-all fuel that is perfect for everyone. |
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04-12-2010, 12:39 PM | #434 | |
not wrapped too tight....
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I've heard great things about "Wicked Good Charcoal" but have yet to try it. I'm a steadfast user of the K-bluebag. And I rarely do anything other than overnight Butts (until this year...!!).
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04-12-2010, 02:22 PM | #435 |
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Re: What's in your smoker?
Haha, I am glad I didn't get that cowboy stuff today. For some reason Rancher's select or
Rancher's choice or whatever slipped out of my mind,and besides I was at Lowe's anyway. But I looked at that stuff, and thought, no, you HAVE coal for now. But I did pick up a cheap smoker to replace my old dinosaur. I picked up one from a friend who's apartment mgmt told him it needed to be gone from the pool area or it would be tossed in a dumpster. I smoked with it all last year. The bottom is near rusted out, and I couldn't move the vents anymore, they were so greased in and rusted out that the tabs almost tore off...So I got this device. I am good enough to not need the best quipment to get the best results. But for about half of what I was prepared to pay, I will do fine with this. I remember my Mom used to bring home those Country style ribs back when I leved with her after my Dad died. I only ever grilled them. I might have to check on smoking some next time they go onsale. As for coal, I tend to use Kingsford lump or another highend lump. OR I just burn whatever tree I have cut down lately or on my lunch hour I tend to cruise the streets looking for woodpiles out by the street. Last edited by OLS; 07-10-2010 at 10:25 PM. |
04-12-2010, 02:55 PM | #436 |
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You gotta read this....
http://www.nakedwhiz.com/lumpdatabase/lumpbag6.htm In fact, you REALLY gotta read THIS..... http://www.nakedwhiz.com/lumpindexpage.htm?bag Sorry if this is placed elsewhere already, but what was found in the COWBOY brand charcoal, also sold as FreshMarket and WholeFoods, Martha Stewart and Williams Sonoma charcoal . PLYWOOD, lol. This page was extremely helpful to me, because I use Kingsford lump which is rated very low for crappy sizes and excessive dust, and I shun "Best Choice" (Piggly Wiggly store brand), but it is actually rated as very good and is made by Royal Oak. Learned something quite useful today. Last edited by OLS; 04-12-2010 at 03:06 PM. |
04-12-2010, 03:38 PM | #437 |
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That's a very good site, whenever I run across a brand I'm thinking about trying, I'll check it there first, depending on what they have to say, I might or might not try it.
Yeaup, I've seen those photos. For gilling I predominately use lump and I've personally seen some questionable stuff come out of various bags of lump over the years. I tend to use KF briqs for the BBQ pit because they are the most consistant fuel you can buy, every briquette, every bag, is exactly the same. I think it was a bag of cowboy that I found used nails in about 10 years ago. |
04-16-2010, 10:22 AM | #439 |
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OH MAN, it's almost officially the weekend and I have YET to purchase my first meat for the new grill.
I have a ton of stuff frozen and ready for a moment's notice should a great weekend pop up, but this new grill calls for something special. I put it together last evening, and I did a pretty good job. Calls for 2 people, but so did my large tin shed. I had so many ropes, pulleys and bungie cords in service, I LAUGH at two person jobs, HA. Modified it as called for on the interwebs, and am going to season it this afternoon and maybe begin a cook tonight, too. I am guessing a brisket, but I am dying to do that superslab, what does Raichlen call it again? ...it came to me in a dream and now I have forgotten it. One word. --interweb--dern, can't find it easy. A clop, a clup dangit |
04-16-2010, 10:43 AM | #440 |
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I'm not sure. I'm a big fan of Steve Raichlen, even traded some recipes with him a few years ago, but dammed if I can place the name for what you're talking about.
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