Food Smokers and Smoking Tips/Tricks/Techniques

Lowes, HD, Cabelas, Amazon, wherever. Apple #1, Hickory#2, Pecan#3 for me. Chunks. If they're too big out of bag I split them into pieces about the outside size of a Snickers bar, the length is whatever. Scatter those around your coals once the meat is on lest you get a serious face-full of smoke when adding the meat (on my WSM anyway).

 

So the wife had some brisket this morning before we go to the dentist to get all her wisdom teeth pulled

First time using the $10 garage sale Weber 22" kettle to make brisket instead of the WSM. Used bricks and the minion method. Surprisingly very good!!

 

Smoking her thighs, good!

 

Always leave em wanting more.

 

Looks delicious!

 

Nice!

 

Three inch bone in chops with garlic potatoes, gulf stream shrimp, and fresh veggies.

 

Looks awesome.

 

Just got back from Argentina. Had some amazing ribs - lamb and beef for different meals. They do short ribs heavily salted and cooked for a few hours over medium heat. I'm definitely going to try them on the smoker. I've never bought short ribs (flanken style) before. Not sure how easy they will be to find as a full rack.

 

Chops look amazing, @Woundedyak . Better than my pan frying effort from the other night.

Too bad you aren't local to me. There is a butcher shop near me that'll let me go in the back and trace out just what part of the carcass I want. I got an absolutely wicked partial rack of plate ribs one time, otherwise I normally buy them individually. Hands down my favorite thing to cook on the smoker. How badly do you want a rack? If I got one would you want me to look in to shipping in a dry ice package? Let me know if interested and I'll try to look in to it.

Here is a picture of the rack. I ended up separating them for the cook because I wanted bark all around. Cooked them in the beer keg smoker:

 

3:00am, the WSM is fired and the pork butt is on.

Mike

 

Awesome! Thanks for the offer. I'm going to look around locally for flanken style ribs but if I come up zero, I might hit you up!

 

Doves? Those that I have known to dove hunt in Argentina this time of year usually come back talking about how great the food is at the lodges as much as the pass shooting.

 

Smoked thighs with some white sauce is a favorite of ours!

 

Doves, ducks & partridges. Hunting was insane and the food was incredible.

 

Added the brisket at 9.

 

Good to hear! They look pretty awesome.

Thighs are so underrated.

 

Got a late start on smoking today. I decided to cut that huge loin into thirds and make 3 different recipes with them. Here are the recipes I kinda went by. I threw my own little twist on them.

http://barbecuebible.com/recipe/bourbon-brown-sugar-smoked-pork-loin/
http://www.traegergrills.com/recipes/pork/bacon-stuffed-pork-loin
https://www.theblackpeppercorn.com/...-stuffed-with-roasted-red-peppers-and-cheese/

Wife is most interested in the cheese stuffed while I'm looking forward to the bourbon brown sugar combo.

Now the wait beings...