Food Smokers and Smoking Tips/Tricks/Techniques

Don't throw your work into a microwave. Just foil tightly And I mean tightly. If there is air you will start to steam in and it will turn mushy if it's beef or turn out hammy if it's pork. Just foil and reheat at 225ish. Give yourself a good hour. You don't want to cook it. You want to warm it and Release the fat that the meat has reasorbed.

 

got a big green egg last winter and i am officially obsessed with smoking. So far ive done a few chickens, a pork shoulder, and am attempting a whole smoked turkey today. Ill throw up some pictures later today, hopefully of not a disaster that i had to feed to the dog.

 

Smoked turkey is the bomb, brined and did it that way for turkey day this past year and it came out great. Everyone raved over how good it was. Previous years I have deep fried them and everyone loves that also. This year I may do two smaller ones and have it both ways.

 

Mother's day brisket

 

These will be going on in a bit. They are a trial run for an upcoming cookout because I haven't smoked any drumsticks in this wsm. 4 are bacon wrapped because that's all the bacon I had.

i'll be foiling the ends of these before i stick them on the smoker.

 

Only 4 slices of bacon in the house? I'm pretty sure that's not legal in some places.

 

Sub'd

 

the rest is in my belly.

 

What does the foil at the ends do?

 

Keeps them from turning black. It's really just aesthetics.

 

oooh! I like that!

 

Only 6 of the 14 made it inside. I ate a total of 5. They were tasty but I think they'd be better on the kettle than in the low heat smoker. You can't really crisp the skin up at 225. I threw the last 6 on the grill to caramelize the glaze and crisp up the bacon and skin.

 

Man my mouth always starts to water up every time I look at good brisket like that

 

I'm with you. I stopped smoking chicken and just set the grill up indirect. Tastes just as good in a quarter of the time.

 

I've had multiple random requests to save the brisket "juice" for them haha

 

Only in M'erica!

 

FTFY

 

Swoosh

 

Smoked a small brisket flat. No packers available!


All burnt ends out of it?


I'm on vacation, why not!?