Food Smokers and Smoking Tips/Tricks/Techniques

Looking forward to the result, fellas!

 

Getting my daughter started early.

 

Caught my youngest son playing with the chimney lighter earlier. He wants to help so bad, but sorry, not with fire. He got in trouble.

 

Always have to put on "enough" It depends IMO. Waiting on my order for the rub too, but didn't put in until recently.

I like smoked chuck roast and often make them into chuckie burnt ends. Because you can never have enough bark. I do 2 and put a pan of veggies under them. If your doing potatoes you want to par boil them or nuke them for a bit first.



And that amount of rub gave some pretty decent bark



When they have a couple of hours left I cube them and then put a bunch more rub on them in a foil pan. After about an hour back on the smoker as the additional bark starts to form I then add sauce.



Normally would have gone another hour or so to caramelize them more but it was getting late. But still taste great. As do the veggies. The veggie pan will be full of liquid fat from the meat above it and you need to drain them. Or not LOL.

 

The meat looks delicious, but those veggies.... I have yet to do vegetables in the smoker.

 

Dude...YUM!

The chuck I put in has been smoking directly on the rack for 3.5 hours now at 225°-250°. Internal temp is ~150° now so will leave it on until about 165°. At that point I was going to foil it until it was pull-apart tender...but damnit if those burnt ends don't look delicious!

 

Letting these cheeks and tails marinate for a couple hours then smoking them in the pan:

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMnrhN2h00w

Hanging Ribs in the WSM

 

You mean I can smoke more than two racks of ribs at a time in the WSM!?!?

 

Get a rib rack, you can do 4 baby back racks on top grill alone in a 18" WSM.

 

Do you mean the kind where the ribs lie on their sides? I've contemplated getting one of those.

 

Yup. I've had a couple, some of them shit especially the one from Cabelas. The one I have now is great, got it from local Ace hardware. You want thick heavy steel, not spindly wire looking sections.

 

Edit: Meh... Says unavailable.

I just found this guy for the 18" WSM. Probably will look into this first and see how it goes since I never use my bottom rack for anything.

$120 Weber 7472 Expandable Smoking Rack, 18"

https://www.amazon.com/Weber-7472-E...KBMH0STGN1&pd_rd_w=iaAkS&pd_rd_wg=UUm4X&psc=1

 

That thing looks spindly and complicated, more for hanging. This is the one I have, Weber, dirt cheap and solid...

 

Looks good to me!

 

You can probably find it at a local Ace hardware, or HD, or Lowes.

 

Chrome plating will come off. I don't know if anyone makes stainless steel rib racks tho, just sayin'.

 

Pretty sure I have seen them at Lowe's. About 15 bucks or so.

 

Yeah, I don't know what mine has but I use the shit out of it, nothing is anywhere close to flaking or whatever. Thing's bulletproof.

 

Yep. The "ultimate rib rack" from Cabelas is a joke, 30 bucks and a POS.