Food Smokers and Smoking Tips/Tricks/Techniques

I saw the reply From someone else for the record. Then just looked at the pictures.


Completely missed the link in awe of your food.

 

HAHAHA I swear I wasn't picking on you! I've just had a lot of people ask me about links I have already posted lately and figured I would share my knowledge with the group!

I gotta say THANK YOU to @Cold Iron for even teaching me how to link words instead of just pasting the link.

 

I feel threatened now. Going to head to my corner and cry.


Maybe protest volunteer firemen that smoke stuff.

 

HAHA C'mon Murph! You know we gotta stick together!!

 

Naw, I’m just drinking tonight.

 

Always broski!

 

Not sure how close you are to Kingsport, but my Akorn is for sale for $200, cover + smoking stone

 

Was saying the "smoking" fireman comment.

But corn is always allowed

 

Figured they already have all your info anyway?

I need to pick up some more echos if they do the sale again this year. We are mostly an Apple house but I’ve got no use for their HomePod or whatever it’s called.

 

Yeah we’re all Apple but we’ve got 3 Echo’s and the fire stick too.

 

Thanks for the offer, but I'm about 3 hours away. I'm just north of Chattanooga.

 

Ya same fire stick is just too cheap to pass. We have a newer Apple TV which is solid but the remote is a crap show.

 

here is a beer can chicken I scorched last week because I was in a hurry and used my gas grill instead of my pellet smoker. it was good, but I had the smoker box open and it flared up and blackened it more than I like. The meat was good, but the outside got charred pretty bad. oh well, shit happens.


anybody use an A Maze N tray? I was too lazy to walk outside and take a picture of mine. These work great for cold smoking cheese, etc... In a pinch I will throw something on a gas grill with the A Maze N tray and they work great after you figure out how to keep them lit without flaring up.

 

I'm not a fan of beer can chicken for food safety reasons.. there's plenty of way to grill or smoke a chicken without creating potential issues..

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/beer-can-chicken_b_1634001 does an excellent article on this subject...

 

hmmmm. the alcohol in the beer probably caused the flare up with the smoker box.

 

I do like that griddle plate you have in the grill though.. was it made for the grill or something you found that fit?

 

its a Lodge cast iron griddle. Its pretty heavy duty. I had retired that grill and was ready to scrape it and decided to give it another year or so. I bought the griddle for 30 bucks on Amazon.

$35 Lodge LDP3 Cast Iron Rectangular Reversible Grill/Griddle, 9.5" x 16.75", Black

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B002CMLTXG/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_cqtcFbQ3EAB14

 

I'm staying with Echo, started with lights first. Over the winter replaced 3 window shades on the South side of the house with Bali double cellular smart blinds although needed a Samsung Smartthings bridge to work with the Z-Wave. Love them. Echo turn on open blinds. Can of course control them individually too. Like them enough on July 4th ordered 3 more for the living room at 50% off. Still spendy but worth it to me. Don't want to get too domesticated though so ordered another shotgun on the 4th also LOL. A little Italian 16 ga. Side by Side for grouse hunting, not that I need another grouse gun but...

Fast food in the yard this morning. 2 veal. Too small to even have backstraps yet. I swear these twins love to tease the dogs.

I use a smoker box on the gasser sometimes especially when using the rotisserie. You can see it to the left



I use wood chips in it and soak them first. Once they dry out they can catch fire especially when you open the lid. Likely not enough alcohol in the beer to cause them to catch on fire it is just one of the hazards of using a chip box. But for the most part works well.

I have the A Maze N Tray and several tubes. Personally I don't find them as effective as wood chips. Have used them on the Gasser also but what I find is they just don't add the smoke flavor I want with pellets. And on the gasser they really built up a lot of oily residue. Suspect it is due to lack of oxygen and it was creosote, I burned it off the box when I was done.

Got them for supplementing the pellet pooper as I really am disappointed in the lack of smoke flavor of pellets especially for short cooks. Wasn't happy with that so thought I'd try a few pieces of charcoal and wood chunks on the pooper in the tray. Don't be that guy pellet poopers are not made for high heat.



High temp primer paint should be here today but first need to sand it all down.

Spent this morning reading and researching about using sawdust instead of pellets in the tray it just may work the best. For the smoke I am looking for anyhow.

Been using the 26" kettle for the most part have hardly fired up the WSM since I got the larger kettle. It is just so easy to use, for everything