Food Smokers and Smoking Tips/Tricks/Techniques

Fantastic looking!

 

Guy that works with the wife loved my last meatloaf, he usually misses out on the leftovers cause he works later, told him I’d hook him up with his own.

 

I see that .

Kaelyn is doing better and the test results continue to improve. Brandon said that it's looking like two more weeks in the hospital, however. The main thing is that things are pointing up!

Obviously this is a much lower priority than the health of his daughter, but we're not sure if he'll be able to be at the competition, now.

 

New Bbq joint opened up in next town over. For a grand total of 2 in a 50 mile radius
The brisket was great, some of the best I’ve et, but the jalapeño cheddar cornbread with some butter n hunny drizzle stole the show lol

 

It’s kind of silly how much I look forward to grilling. Meal planned this week and got to grill today! With two of my kids on different soccer teams plus one does swim team and the other does Ji-jitsu (sp?) my week gets tied up quick. And we just had another child two months ago

But tonight I grill! On probably my favorite grill I’ve owned: plain ol’ weber kettle



With my favorite “mod”: 2 bricks

 

So ready to go camp, the lows in the 80's at night just don't do it for me... come on October!!!

 

Shouldn’t b that bad here. I’m just worried about storms now..

 

Reverse seared strip steak, taters onions mushrooms garlic butter in foil. Smoked with wild cherry.

 

103* index here yesterday, woke to a balmy 80* this morning at 6:00am this morning....

 

Meat and taters... Well played.

 

Lol I did the brick mod on my kettle too

 

Lighting question.......

I need to do something about lighting up my grilling areas.

Rear deck is okay....dawn-to-dusk spotlights running there.


The problem area is out front in the driveway. I keep the Webers and a other grills in the garage....roll them out and fire them up on occasion.....our parked vehicles hide them...only thing anyone passing by will see is some smoke, lol.

It's a really convenient way to cook as the garage fridge and music is close at hand.

Problem occurs the morning after, though.



Just this week.....Monday morning, in fact.....I'd left one of the grills out front instead of rolling it back into the garage. The coals were still too warm on Sunday night to feel good about doing anything with it.

Anyway.....at O'dark'o'muddafukkin'clock Monday morning....I'm walking out to my truck....Yeti coffee mug in one hand....briefcase, keys and phone in the other on my way to work.

Just for the record....it's a badass tactical type briefcase made by Sig Sauer....not a yuppety type. It's the type Chuck Norris would carry if he ever had the need.....or didn't have one of his acolytes following behind him...toting his shyt for him.



So.....I'm approaching the drivers side and hit the unlock on the key fob.

This turns off the darkness in my cab and lights it up mighty.....which sorta makes the area around/below the truck seem darker.

I'm a couple feet from the Taco and reaching for the door handle.....and something scurries outa from beneath my truck and rushes past me. "WHATTHAFUKKAMIGHTYDAMNITMAN!!!!!!" my large arse is high stepping and trying not to drop stuff. Neighbor's dogs start raising hell.....either at my panicked battlecry or at the scent of the Chupacabra-beast thing that came out from beneath my sleeping Taco. Damn near pissed myself.

Hell.....I was halfway to work before I remembered that I had coffee along for the ride.

Fukked me up so bad that I forgot to hit the blessed ECT button when I crunk it up.



My takeaway from this close encounter with the Chupacabra werewolf was.....a) install more motion sensitive lighting in the parking areas of the driveway b) get some damn puddle lights installed c) don't leave the grill out cause it attracts unwanted creatures......but this isn't likely....the grills will run when and where they run.



Need to to turn off the darkness when it's appropriate......any motion lights that have worked well for you ?

 

First of all this is hysterical.

Secondly why don’t you park your truck IN the garage? Chupacabras have a hard time getting into garages.

I have my grill sitting out 100% of the time and don’t get chupacabras or yetis coming to my yard.
Maybe I’m that shitty of a cook

I did recently grill up lamb chops on my Weber gas grill and set all the grease trays on fire.
Just FYI those tin trays do melt eventually.

 

https://www.homedepot.com/p/Defiant...-Security-Flood-Light-MSH27920DLWDF/203303759

I put this one up at the old house. Was dark out there and with no moon was reaaaal dark. worked well.

on my old truck I ran some led strips under the cab and tied it into the lighting so that when the door was opened or you hit the unlock key, they would turn on. worked really well and was only a few bucks.

 

Thanks, gents.

The lighting enhancements will occur.....both motion lights & puddle lights as per @Misplaced Nebraskan suggested.





After all.......must protect myself from both the IMAGINED threat:

















And the most PROBABLE threats:


































I'm too old and not agile enough to be high-stepping in the dark.......

 

We have some motion lights that are solar that my wife got, they are small but bright and no need to run wiring. Just let the sun power them.

 

Hey the way I see it is if it allows us to mod then the threat is REAL.

 

16' boat, motor & trailer.....Smokewagon offset stick burner, Lil'Red ceramic kamado, 22"WSM, 22" & 18" kettles, Kinsgford supply and the normal garage stuff are in there. Wife wouldn't allow me to clean out the stuff and park there....she'd have first stake on parking there, lol.


I leave Ole Red (24" ceramic kamado) out on the rear deck. It's the lone cooking vessel out there....and truth be told, it could do 100% the cooking that needs to be done to keep my family fed. Sometimes, though....I'll be out front tinkering around with my Taco....washing, waxing, lightweight modding....and it's easier to run the something from the garage fleet.



And.....besides......monsters can get in the garage, too.


I know this to be true.


Was a big Stephen King fan in my teen years.


My son and I went to see the latest version of "IT" in the theater when it came out last year.

One of the scenes found the cast of characters bumping around in a dark abandoned house...there was a scene in a darkened room where the furnishings were covered with sheets draped over them....one of the objects was dome shaped....sorta like a rounded topped birdcage with a sheet draped over it.



Fast forward to the real world.....my world.....the next morning after seeing the movie I was up at my normal O'dark'O'clock and getting the coffee maker fired up and soon would have some breakfast cooking for the family.

Needed another pack of sausage.....stepped out in the garage to retrieve it from the handy fridge out there. Left the lights off....simply went down the stairs to the fridge....opened the door....grabbed said sausage.....stood up and closed the door..........the light from the fridge shown on my covered 22'' WSM that someone had rolled out of it's normal spot and had it close to fridge. "DAMNITMAN.....PENNYWISE is in here wid me" flashed through my head.

Damn near dropped the sausage in hand.....whilst my OE sausage was turtle-necking like a mofo. Had a quick nervous laugh.....after getting back up the steps and in the house. Damn clowns.




Never did find out who moved my WSM........

 

Get a shed for the cooking equip and sell the boat.

Shit I’d park my boat outside before my truck.

Also it was clearly estabilshed in my wedding vows if there was only one garage space... it was mine.
So you messed up there haha.

I’ve never seen IT.
The creepiest part of the damn trailer is when the kid with “LOSER” written on his cast looks down and it says “LOVER”.
Ohh no. When horror meets pedophelia shit uhh uhh. I’m out.

 

I do need to sell the boat.....and make room for the badass fishing kayak that I'd love to put in there.t


I generally do NOT watch horror movies. Just not my thing.

I'll see them....or the damn trailers for them advertised on TV and then forget about them......until I'm three miles in the woods after the sun goes down on an afternoon hunt and I'm getting my bearings for the walk out. Then....that shyt comes back with total recall, lol. Truth be told the real deal no kiddin' apprehensions that actually do come into play are thoughts of the damn rattlesnakes and water moccasins that the woods & swampy areas are loaded with pretty much hone my focus on those walks out.






The "IT" movie was a fairly decent screenplay for the novel.....most all of his stuff was something of interest on back in teen days....moved on prefer other stuff....W.E.B. Griffin, Brad Thor, Tom Clancy, the late Vince Flynn and etc.