Food Smokers and Smoking Tips/Tricks/Techniques

Some people brush cooking oil on their smoker to prevent rust, I use bacon grease.

 

The grease is good, I'd be leery of the salt.

I use coconut oil.
Clean, very high smoke point.
Use it on my griddles and cast iron pans too.

 

Born and raised in Hawaii...coconut oil, I like that idea. I'll check that out.

 

A little party appetizer today. (Used a few habeneros for good measere) Going to top them all with a melted habenero jelly glaze.

 

Looks delicious!

 

How did it turn out? Pics?

 

I love smoked salmon don't get me wrong, however I was once told not to smoke fish or hotdogs on your main smoker. The flavors left behind taint your smoker.

Any truth to this? Since hearing that, I've never put either in my smoker, just chicken, beef, pork.

 

I've smoked a lot of salmon in my smoker with no lingering effects. But it was rum marinated and cured, that might have something to do with it, IDK The salmon is noticeably firmer after curing, before smoking.

 

I throw a pack of hot dogs on almost every time I smoke. Store them in Tupperware until use. Cold smoked salmon a couple of times, never noticed any odor with either.

 

Alright, maybe I'll give them a go. I'll probably lay down some foil first.

 

Great for skin and hair too.

You guys were healthy until spam, turkey tails, and other junk food hit the islands.

 

dudes. I have a bunch of meat going on today, i'm doing some 3-2-1 ribs and im wondering, on stage 2 with foil, is it ok to have them stacked? or would this step be pointless? i don't have enough room to lay them flat so I'm using a rib rack.

 

Any time you're foiling, an oven is just as good. If you don't have enough room in the smoker just set the oven to the same temp & cook them there for the foil step.

 

Perfect. Thanks!

 

Smoking a big shoulder today - sliced deep into it to get more bark. Hope it doesn't dry out too much. Also a 3 lb chuck for some burnt ends.

 

I'm smoking a chuck today as well on my Traeger that I got for free.

 

Ive got one pork butt, but I haven't thawed it out. I need pellets too..