Food Smokers and Smoking Tips/Tricks/Techniques

i'm a pretty big fan of the smoker and rotate between pork shoulder, brisket, some fish and of course full chickens. I usually dry rub the heck out of them (brining the pork and fish) and keep em on as long as low as i can. i'll make a sauce, but i don't use it myself.

i use a little barrel type smoker, but one time needed some extra space, so i built one made of cinder blocks off the the side of my fire pit (wife HATED the way it looked, haha). i always go with an apple juice or old beer bath over the heat, under the racks of meat. x

 

Touching off the AMAZN dust maze. Full of hickory of course.

 

The victims, nothing special, just a couple of 6lb butts.

 

Sorry forgot the "rubbed" shots, my hands were greasy and caked in rub. Nothing special, equal amounts of garlic salt, red, white and black pepper.

Everything seems fine here, I guess I'll go to bed and check on this somewhere between 10:00 and 11:00am.

 

OMG!!! It's falling a deluge!! Thunder and lightening, heavy downpours... Here's a pic of my patio...

 

Local weather radar...

 

Me, I'm back in bed, KNOWING my temps will stay the same, AMAZN tray still going strong.. Damn, I wish I had something to tinker with or monitor...

 

Well I can't sleep, the storms were pretty severe. But didn't last long. So, I was forced to check my temps, under a vine covered pergola. I was shocked to see that they remained the same...

 

haha yes,yes. that would have been pretty nice to not have to worry about it!

 

I do 225 never wrapped and water in the bowl till the rack almost bends in half

 

I got mine at target using the red card. Got 5% off

 

Are you a home owner? There's plenty to do at my house to do without having to check my pellet pooper. BBQ is my prize at the end of the day.

 

$1.30/lb. WTF where???

 

Same here. I would stock up on those.

 

I've used a primo for years. It's really the only way to go in my opinion. You can run a ceramic from 150 to 700 no problem. Weather doesn't effect them and they are super efficient when burning fuel.

 

You in muscle shoals? I lived in Florence for 4 years while I went to UNA.

 

BOO! No sport in your Q!

 

Local Foodland chain. They are a threat to run them for .99cents at almost any holiday. That's pretty much standard rate.

 

Yes Sir, just like the song says... (Sweet Home Alabama) Hit recording capital of the world. Go Lions!!!!

 

I suck, I know...