Food Smokers and Smoking Tips/Tricks/Techniques

The stuff I have been trying is really good.

 

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Getting ready to try out the new smoker and was looking for cuts of meat locally but don’t know what to expect for availability or pricing honestly. Do you use online distributors for meat or you source locally?

 

depends on the scale. For me (no kids vegan wife) I just get stuff at the store usually. Sausages, pork loin, even butts. I’ll just get those at save a lot. If I had a big smoker I’d probably get to a butcher. I don’t do brisket but I would go to the local butcher instead of a supermarket for that.

if I was doing a large scale cook ie 75 chickens, I’d probably find a local farm.

 

Impeccable timing you guys have. Earlier today I got these ready. One is what I was pretty well settled on, the other is a slight variation that I tried for grins that I liked way better than I thought I would. @Kanyon71 and @Misplaced Nebraskan are owed samples for testing as compensation for judging in the cook-offs. I'll figure how many decent sized samples I can make, then see who else I can get signed up for testing.



For any that are curious, this is the "Vampire Rub" that you might have seen brought up from time to time.

Damn Covid hindered my access to some of the ingredients I like to use, so I didn't tinker with this as much as I wanted in the last few months.

 

Kinda surprised you’d expose it to light like that. I mean, the fires of a grill are one thing but Natural Sunlight should be a no go. Guess a warnin’ label solves all that.
I’d be interested in a shake or two but you might as well send ‘er to Transylvania, would likely be easier than here right now.

 

These are just the testers. The jars stay in the spices drawer, but it didn't make for a good picture . Commercial stuff is kept in a dark location, too.

 

Best keep that drawer locked after sundown. Might have an affinity to go after Steaks ‘round midnight.

 

I mostly buy local. Was just looking online due to scarcity around here for trip tips. Then I saw that "tender-loin"...

I knew my spidy senses were tingling!

 

You were searching for meat on like tender-loin dot com weren’t you?

 

Was going to place an order on the website for your available runs, time frame on the Vampire rub?!

 

Spent the afternoon taking the Toller male to a vet up in the Cities. As in South of Minneapolis right on the edge of it. On the way stopped South of town first to drop off my new gun at a shop to have a microcell recoil pad fitted.



Folded the Alaskan case in half and put it in the passenger side of the truck and on the way there realized what I had done. No one messed with my rig while I was there for 2 hours...

Reason for the vet was testing for breeding. Vet jacked the dog off for first test and at 4 million sperm per count she said he was viable. She mentioned something about he didn't have opposing thumbs and it was the one thing they relied on the dog to help them do... Then they fed him lots of drugs and did a lot of other tests he is still kind of out it. Not sure what is the root cause the drugs or, erhh never mind.

Didn't feel like doing a lot of work cooking after I got home so went with the gasser. They have their place especially with grill grates. Started with bacon wrapped asparagus and then did a bacon cheddar bratwurst.


Simple and fast. Especially when it isn't teens or twenties below zero.

When I retired from the Navy in 95 worked for a VAR and as you walked in to the back where the Engineers were and I worked there were hundreds of modem banks. IOA, Internet Of Asheville. Hooked up to Linux boxes. Octopus cards and cables. Screech and scream all day long and always wished the handshakes would hurry the hell up.

Still have ~4k fax machines at work to move to SIP. In my spare time. Got stuck with it because no one else knew what 12,800 baud was. Not counting a shotgun modem LOL. Which was a screamer back in the day when a frac T1 was $2K plus a month. Some faxes to drugstores for prescription authorizations in rural places only run at 2,400 on negotiation completion. On a good day. But it is still a secure method for transfer of patient data across a wire. You have mail...

 

Dont you love faxing!
what platform are you using for your sip trunking?
Thoughts on T.38?

 

I am not a telecom guy but work closely with them obviously.

OK well maybe back in the day on ships and boats would have to support the AT&T Dimension 2000 PBX when on duty. Find the mechanical relay that was stuck and pull your comb out and pop it open. Try to dry it off first because even using a rubber comb with sweat on it the salt would act as a conductor and you would feel a bit of a jolt LOL. Not as bad as having a gap in your teeth that was perfect for stripping insulation on phone lines on POTS lines and about the time you started to strip it in your mouth someone would dial in and the juice would make your mouth go numb, or at least your tongue..

Enterprise environment last 20 years although always been more a server person in the basement but at one time handled everything in most verticals. Which helps as I have the background for top to bottom configuration. And in the Enterprise it is important for DR and HA. And designing an "elegant" solution LOL or so my evals say.

RightFax we can not use T.38 with the Avaya configuration in place across the board and the equipment we have, at least reliably. We are using G.711 only in Brooktrout. Hey you don't have to have a brooktrout board anymore, it is all software based! We do integration between Epic which is the Electronic Medical Record System, Hyland OnBase the imaging system, and RightFax. But bottom line is that G.711 has worked best for negotiation with other systems outside our control on the other end and reliability. In our environment. You will never achieve 100% compatibility across systems with faxing. In fact 5% error rate is considered damn good. We are now running at less than half that for errors. Not counting human answered, no answer, etc. Transmission errors are way down using G.711.

 

Our Costco got them back in but the price sure went up. This part of the large one looks pretty lean, I've been wanting to make some jerky for a while and this looks like it's it.

 

H-E-B has them but there up to $13 lb

 

When it's cheaper to buy beef in California than Texas something is just plain wrong. $10.69\Lb if you can read that sticker.

I believe it was around $6.30 about a month ago.