Food Smokers and Smoking Tips/Tricks/Techniques

Well in reality, you can do whatever you want. You don't have to do what I did..but do something that will give enough feedback that will allow people to make the decision to #1 keep/upgrade/downgrade the recipe and #2.. convince the masses that it's a rub worth buying 5 pounds of at a time.

 

It's about 3 heaping tablespoons of each version. Should be good for a couple decent meals .

 

for me that’s pork loin and turkey breast. On it!

 

Speaking of garlic... Overnight I dehydrated 2 cups of minced garlic and ended up with about 2/3 of a cup



At the same time I has taken some whole garlic cloves and CAREFULLY sliced them on a mandolin and dehydrated them as well... The goal for those "chips" is to be ground into my own garlic powder.


None of this is related to @bvbull200 and the Vampire Rub ™!
I'm a total fan of the garlic and black pepper taste and have a ton of ideas haha.. and likely ADD or something. I like to play with my food!

 

hot damn. I would love to work with some garlic slices like that. This thread is dangerous for my waistline.

 

Make sure you check the turkey breast and see if it's injected and what percent... Otherwise you might inadvertently make it too salty.

Use it to cook whatever you're going to cook anyways. If someone makes 20 racks of ribs every year then try it on ribs... I wouldn't try something new because you don't have anything to base it on.

 

Hmmm me thinks you are having flash backs to Heat Transfer and Fluid Flow...

If they still had that when you went through.

My sister texted me from NC today that the smoked pork butt they did for fathers day on the WSM for the first time turned out so well they want to do another larger one on Friday. Asked if 1.5 hour per pound was a good rule, they found that on the internet so it must be true. Told her to start earlier at least 2 hours based on that formula and then wrap and rest in a cooler until they were ready to eat.

Speaking of the internet listening to FM classic rock station right now while my salted ribeye is sitting at room temp for an hour, and tonight classic rock is 1974. Said the term internet came about in 1974. And then started to play a BTO song and said maybe you listened to it in your first car. Yep. 1967 Mustang, 289 burnt orange. On 8 track with quad Kraco speakers from K-mart. And they also mentioned that the string bikini came out in 1974. Yep I was in Daytona Beach for Spring Break then.

Uh Oh now I shot the sheriff but I didn't shoot the deputy...

GREAT SCORE! I smoked literally hundreds of pounds of Salmon in Wa. State back in the early 80's on a Little Chief. Probably broke a ton to be honest including steelhead both summer and winter runs.

Back then they were made by Luhr Jensen and were kind of the gold standard for fish and looks like that is what you have, did I say great score? Recently (last decade or so) Smokehouse Products purchased them and took over manufacturing and they are a shadow of what they once were. Like any smoker there are mods you can do to bring them up to speed however. But doubt you will have to

 

No. I like garlic but maybe not too much. Thanks though.

 

yeah, pork loin and turkey could do chicken thighs instead of turkey, I usually smoke the turkey. Loin is 50/50 smoke or not, chicken thighs almost always grilled instead of smoked and do those a lot.

 

I might have been invented in 1974

 

Well there goes my 3 briskets, 4 pork butts, 2 beef rib racks, 4 spares, 3 gators, 2 hogs, and a chicken breast test experiment...

HTFF... yup. so many calculations trying to fight their way to the surface right now! must go drink to suppress!

and great advice on the butt. I quickly learned the 1.5 hour/lb rule was just the most basic blindfolded dart toss from the top of the grand canyon

 

Time is only one factor... Temperature, humidity, wind, dew point, time of day/night, season, location on the planet just to name a few... The only thing that really matters in the IT.

My advice to novices is plan for 12+ hours and when it's done it's done. IT tells the story. Jack Daniels might enhance the story but IT ... No matter low and slow or hot and fast .. IT is the goal.

 

Well someone has to take his spot, maybe someone that was a tester on Unicorn?

 

I think the spots are full

 

@bvbull200 seriously!! THANK YOU! This is so awesome of you to even entertain the idea from so long ago and to stick with it despite the craziness of the world and for letting these fine fellas test out a new product!

I can't wait to see their individual feedback and see the final results! Put me down for the first 5# bag off the line! Haha

 

I know, just yanking the ol' chain.

 

I will wrap in a couple layers of foil, then in a towel and then keep
It inside a closed cooler. Will keep warm if not hot for some time.

 

Damn it.

 

Hey don't blame me! Wasn't until about 79 that I had "relations" with a girl from Iowa. Wasn't the prettiest flower in the bunch but damn she had the biggest heart I ever met. Navy kept us apart and I often wonder how much different my life would have been if I would have stayed with Sue. And feel like walking a mine field here dating, even though I work and live in a target rich environment. 25 years married to the wrong horse and she went to go find herself and left me and the boys, I am gun shy to begin with.

But all the ladies here seem to want the same thing, to get married no mater what age they are. Even the "Hippie" I dated from Madison, Wi. for a number of years. Doesn't feel good at this point breaking hearts because I am not so inclined to get hitched again. But if I do feel the need to I am in the perfect spot, most of the ladies have hearts so big it breaks mine which is why I have a hard time dating them.

The dog on the other hand hunting ruff grouse seems to like the 70's burnt orange. That couch at the cabin is the same one I had in my first couch back then. He is worn out enough really doesn't give a shit though.



Never. Ever. Dreamed I would end up in fly over Country. Been here 20 years now and you could not drag me out no matter what you tried. Used to say you can take the boy out of the Mountains but never can take the Mountains of the man. Used to..

I always took you for a smart man and you always seem to reinforce that thought...

Nothing left from tonight. Dogs didn't get any left overs.

Story of my life LOL!

 

Just don’t leave it in the Truck then get pulled over. They’d have to beat it outta me to find out just who Pitfaced it.