Food Smokers and Smoking Tips/Tricks/Techniques

Personally, I’d just sear it the whole time to keep from overshooting the internal temp

 

a friend of mine uses applewood i think is what he said he used. turns out great everytime!

 

Anyone ever heard of pellets made of orange (tree) wood?

Regardless I have an upright pellet smoker. Of all the smokers I've had over the years, it's my most used...........I even make smoked baking potatoes. At any given moment I have 5-6 bags of different pellets. Awesome.

Now I need to start reading another huge TW thread. Thanks!

 

Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying my way is better. It's just the way I have done it since the 80's, before the internet and smoke tubes and...
If you are happy with the cheese, that's all that matters.

 

Daughter has been bugging me for her own smoker, so we got cracking on a keg I had laying around.

Mini build in progress for Stella!



She helped make the cut lines for the opening in the top! Otherwise it was watching dad go to work with the grinder and cut discs. Probably a good thing that I brush up on my grinding work before this week, right @Bigdaddy4760 ?!?!

 

Yes sir!

 

That’s awesome man. My daughter has been asking me about web design and coding and computers a lot lately. I think we are going to buy her parts for a computer for Christmas and her and I will build it. She’s 8 will be 9 this December. When we are working on a flip house she wants to come help and when I’m cooking she asks to help. Makes me a proud daddy.

 

Is it REALLY gonna help?

 

Only if he brings Unicorn and whiskey.

 

I missed a step: when you pull from smoking, let it sit on cooling racks til near ambient before wrap and frig. Does it matter? Damifino.

 

truth..

 

I don’t let them sit for more then 10 mins while I’m getting the vacuum packet out.

 

That's great. Good for her. Those are definitely the parenting victories that are so damn rewarding.

When you weld as 'well' as I do, you have to be good at grinding.

 

5 pounds of each in tow.

 

Yes sir. She always make me proud. Smart little girl and very caring and humble.

Well if grinding skills are based on lack of welding ability then I should be one of the best grinders in the world.

 

Beef and pork. Cheap cuts done dirt cheap. Brined in simple salt/sugar/balsamic, pellicle staged, smoked with alder pellets.

 

How cool is that?? Hahaha awesome

 

@bvbull200

 

I like the cut of their jib.

 

My welds are perfect, as long as they are where no one will see them. Visible side, looks like a blind guy chewin bubble gum.