Food Smokers and Smoking Tips/Tricks/Techniques

I do something similar, but after rendering for a while, I pull em out then dust them with salt, pepper, garlic salt, chipotle pepper and brown sugar then broil on high to crisp up and if Im feeling froggy, after crisping up ill throw em in the smoker for a few mins to give em a little smoke bite

 

Oh, yeah. You can definitely snack on the crisps, too. The brown sugar and smoker ideas are good. Hadn't thought of that.

 

Im full of odd ideas

 

Cheaper than here unless I catch it on sale.

 

Ya let me know. We are actually doing grilled cheese and soup tonight. Supposed to get 8" of snow on top of the 4" we got the other night so warm comfort food it is.

 

it just makes the outside really crispy. doesn't really leave a mayo flavor.

ignore that this link uses pepperjack inside, unless you want to use pepperjack, that is.
http://allrecipes.com/recipe/237454/grilled-cheese-de-mayo/




and here's another.
https://www.thekitchn.com/should-you-fry-your-grilled-ch-144259

 

Has anyone made Jerky in a smoker? I have several bags of deer in the fridge thawing out and I plan on making some jerky out of it. I have always just used my dehydrator for my jerky bout have been thinking about using the smoker this time. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

I plan on doing whole meat and ground jerky.

Will be doing a test batch with some Spicy Meat Massage this weekend if everything works out.

 

Cool, I will give it a shot tonight and see how it turns out.

 

That’s my secret for the best grilled cheese ever! Don’t go spreading it around!

 

are you talking electric smoker? Ive done some in my electric smoker. I just rotate the racks every hour from bottom to top otherwise the bottom rack gets a little crispy/burned not in a good way.

 

Yeah I plan on doing it in my Electric Bradley.

 

sure they have been around north of Decatur area for a while but birmingham bbq didnt have white sauce until Saws opened a location in town. Everywhere is red sauce. Montgomery was big on selma style vinegar sauce and mobile has been about the same as Auburn/Opelika/Tuscaloosa with a red sauce as well.

No doubt about bammer dreamland losing its luster outside the original in tuscaloosa with ribs, sauce, and whitebread. the location near uab does good business still though.

 

And use sourdough

 

Yeaaahh, no doubt.

 

Started smoking two months ago when I purchased my propane Masterbuilt and have made 4-5 batches of beef jerky in that time. Can't find the link now but I found a page with a process that worked well: 90 minutes around 170 to sweat out the marinade, then an hour or so with smoke around 200-225, then a few more hours back around 170 to finish drying it out. Don't go too long or it will be dry and chewy (perfect excuse to sample the jerky throughout the process, so as not to overcook it).

I've always hung the meat versus laying it flat across the rack, but that won't work for ground jerky.

Good luck! Let us know how it goes.

 

ThermoWorks Smoke on sale...

http://www.thermoworks.com/Smoke

 

Guess what this guy asked Mrs Santa for Christmas?

Weber master touch limited edition Ivory (Released in Canada)

Not my pictures. But i should have my very own Ivory end of next week

 

They have some bad ass colors in Canada. Smoke looks awesome too (top right)

 

Wish I would have known that in Oct. when I spent a couple of weeks on the border bird hunting! It is 5 hours to the border and 6 hours to Thunder Bay, ON. from here. $299 Canadian is about $230 US. The limited edition red ones they released in the US are made in China and don't have many good reviews. At least yet people just started getting them I was looking on Amazon at them earlier today. Wonder if the Canadian ones are made in the US or China.

Next month or 2 it may be time to take a long weekend and another road trip. Roads? We don't need no stinking roads! Center of that lake and North is Canada. Ivory, smoke or Red Weber Kettle Limited sure would be nice to have, good luck!

 

One thing I've never cared about was the color of my smoker.