Food Smokers and Smoking Tips/Tricks/Techniques

Well? It is one of those good eats that gets better over time. Also, the funkier it smells the better.

 

Time for some ribs

 

Buckboard bacon in the skillet last night. This shoulder had a lot of fat in it, which is good if you're making buckboard. Still much more lean than belly bacon.

This went into PB/Banana/Bacon sandwiches.

 

That's the best bacon!! I do mine on my traeger. Ummm I better get up.

 

Late b'fast here in HSV, but ya gotta love Traeger Bacon n Sausage.

It was my brother in Portland, who turned me on to cooking bacon that way. After, I finally convinced him to buy his own Traeger...

 

I just tried some side pork on the traeger. I haven't had that since I was a kid and my dad would make it. Was not as good a bacon.

 

Beans on to get a little smoke. foil off the shoulder to get a little crust back on the outside. Not my standard operating procedure with the shoulder; trying something a little different.

 

I always unfoil at the end for a 1/2 to 45min. Really helps firming up that bark

 

This is what I am hoping for

 

So I ended up smoking it for 3 hours, finished in the oven then seared in the pan. I cut it thin and it was fantastic. More juicy than any other cut I've done. My GF said it was like prime rib. Gotta say probably the best tri-tip yet. Leftovers for dinner!

 

Come on kickoff!!!

 

I am like 0 and 20 on smoked wings. Figured I'd use some pellets in my MES, which quickly caught fire. I pulled 3 dozen wings, literally washed the creosote off them and soldiered on. A couple hours smoke, 30 mins in a 350 oven and a 30 second deep fry later and my wings are...passable.

I'm about ready to call it and retire my wing game. I can nail pulled pork, brisket, even pastrami and homemade bacon...wings just don't work for me.

 

Not smoking, but just do the Franks recipe on their website. Easy peasy.

 

.75 lb Home ground sirloin tips mixed with 4 sliced of ground bacon
1 sliced russet potato with homemade Greek seasoning
1 audience member watching me grill it

 

If anyone is ever looking for a great deal on Prime Sirloin cap steaks, we sell them at Costco in cryo packs! $5/lb! You have to ask the meat cutters if they have any! Not all locations carry them but they are awesome!

 

I always have an audience watching me. Two of them. They watch every breath I take.

 

Me too. I have to be extra careful chopping onions. Anything I drop on the floor is inhaled.

 

Hahaha!! I made fried rice today and I fed my youngest the white bottom half of a green onion. He didn't even hesitate.