Food Smokers and Smoking Tips/Tricks/Techniques

Well we own a home business and some of the things they have is what we need so for some of the people we take care of. Not my fault lol.

 

Used the smoker to season some cast iron this past weekend- next up another turkey:




That is a 20lb bird for scale. Wrapped it right after the last photo and let it finish up nicely without getting too much smoke ring.

Ignore the sign hanging on the arbor- Father in Law made it for me- nice of him- but far from the truth....

 

That's what I want to do with my 26 kettle!

 

I belonged to Sam's about 15 years ago for a few years anyhow. With a family of 4 the bulk buys were still a lot of stuff. Meat was hit or miss so dropped it. Local packing plant has some of the best pork bellies I have ever seen. HyVee grocery store sells prime cuts of beef, and good ones. Basically only me now so warehouse purchases don't make a lot of sense for me. But after seeing some of the cuts of meat that people are picking up from Costco on here and other sites I'm headed to Groupon to look for this discount it is only a few blocks from the office. Might actually make me go into work more instead of working from home so much.

 

One day a yoder offset will be in my backyard!!

 

Kudos for taking care of people.

 

Scottalot's wife says what do you mean we dont have room in our garage for the cars??

 

Costco is all about the $1.50 hotdog and drink! That and wandering around on the weekend eating free samples for lunch. Sometimes there are so many that you have to pace yourself if you want to try them all. It’s not about being broke, it’s about being frugal and eating like a king for free!

 

stealing this plan!

 

Indeed. I need to do some homemade jerky myself.

 

Lmao

 

Northgate (Gonzalas) Markets - sale is off so back up to $5.99 but still so worth it.

 

Back to bbq though. Cooked another rib for a party now time for some "homemade jerky"

 

oh dope! love local info!

 

Got this 6lb pork loin going right now. Happy Wednesday People. Cheers

 

my gf dad has a dope smoker but I on the other hand do not. Any tips or vids of how to smoke with a charcoal grill?

 

Plenty of vids on YouTube!

Look up minion method and snake method.
I smoke on a 26 weber and works just fine

 

Minion method, keep the food on other side away from coals, have a temp probe for the grill grate temp as well as meat temp (unless you're doing ribs... in that case, use the bend test).

 

Old setup on my 22 weber worked pretty well about 6-8 hours iirc.

Cons: cook space is very small especially if your wanna do a brisket.

Edit: also I didn't like how the meat was so close to the fire, so I'm sure the grill grate temp differed from side to side.

 

I still had my fire going from my ribs so gotta make the most out of my fuel.