Food Smokers and Smoking Tips/Tricks/Techniques

Me too

 

Ccouple more hours I think

 

So the legs fell off my 26.75 today.....

 

If you paid $26.75 for it I'm not surprised.

 

So hungry

 

House smells amazing!

 

I'm getting impatient. 45 minutes till stir then back in for an hour or so.

 

I’ve heard tell of people smoking spam
Not sure if that stuff is available in Hawaii tho

 

They eat a ton of spam in Hawaii

 

I think it's the state bird

 

I was sarcasming

 

Looks like brown sugar to me.

 

Brown sugar. Those are pork burnt ends, usually made out of pork belly but I've also used pork shoulder/butt or those "country style ribs" (which are actually usually just boneless Boston butts).

Cube it up in 1-2" cubes and season however your like your pork. I've used BBQ rub or just salt and pepper
Cook it low for a few hours at 225f
I pull mine in the 160 range to hit them with butter and brown sugar.
Cook until it glazes and crisps up on the outside

 

Ha.

You never know though.

 

B

Brown sugar and honey. If you're ever near Austin, my treat for the Bob father

 

Victory.

 

For those of you that smoke cheese. Do you have a particular wood that works better for you or just a preference? From what I’ve seen thus far, hard to medium cheeses work better and the heat needs to be kept at or below 100. Was out with the missus last night and had some nice smoked Gouda. Thinking now that it’s cooler out that I could give it a shot.

 

Any wood should work. Start light. Try 30 mins of smoke and see what you think. Also, the longer it sits the better. I vac-pac mine after it’s smoked and keep it in the fridge for at least 6 weeks before I touch it.. Found a pound of Swiss this week that I smoked in March. Should be awesome.

Amazn Smoker tubes work great for this because they add very little heat. Any BBQ grill would work great for smoking like this - put the smoker tube on one side and cheese on the other and open the vents.

 

I’m prepping to smoke cheese for the first time on Tuesday. I don’t have a vacuum sealer yet so I was going to wax them. Suggestions on what wax to use?