Food Smokers and Smoking Tips/Tricks/Techniques

this green stuff?

 

i don't have quite that much of a stock pile, but i do wood working and i save all the cutoffs for this reason.

 

We always have quite the stock pile on hand. The crazy thing is, one of my employees just took about 700 square feet of loose boards out of that rack just 2 weeks ago for his house.

 

Had my cardiologist appt check up earlier. Gained 7 lbs in 6 months. Not bad. Was told to work on a good diet.

Ok brisket salad it is

 

Goat ribs, and pulled pork from the other day...with PF rub. i had to finish in the oven but turned out fantastic!

 

Haven't seen goat ribs before. Would definitely try em if I saw them though. Looks great!

 

They were a little chewy, but I dont know if that was wrongly cooked but they tasted good. Ive never cooked them before...

 

Brisket day lmao

Co workers wants some samples. So made some more to vacuum seal

 

The new smoker getting it's break in smoke.

 

That thing is impressive. What brand of smoker is that?

 

Lyfe Tyme. My 20 year old New Braunfels smoker finally rusted out. The stories that old smoker could tell!

 

I bet. When the frame of my current one is done I’ll transfer it onto another frame of sort. Current smoker is 5 years old. Previous was 20+

 

I thought it was a steam engine at first. That’s impressive looking. Might as well throw some meat on it after the break in burn.

 

I have about 300 Sq ft of red oak left over from my house. When i get my shop cleaned up, i'll take a picture of my wood stash. It seems to keep growing. the problem is, a lot of it I can't use for smoking.

 

What are y’all using for a grill brush? I seem to go through them pretty quickly due to caking of grease and whatnot, but I don’t want to cheap out and end up with a shard of metal in my belly.

Thanks for your advice.

 

Ball of foil.

 

Who has a Traeger as I am looking the Pro Series 34 any issues likes dislikes?

 

This. Or just leave the meat bits.

 

extra heat?...

 

I have the 22 inch version. It’s great and it does everything that I want it to. My Weber Genesis has seen very very little use since getting the Traeger. You will not be disappointed, but some folks in some places won’t consider it to be a ‘real’ smoker. It’s up to you to decide whether or not what those folks think matters.

Oh, and don’t use Traeger brand pellets. They taste like nothing and are overpriced.