Food Smokers and Smoking Tips/Tricks/Techniques

I’ve smoked Cornish hens that turned out great. Little nervous on a bigger bird! I need to nail down the temp/time, thinking 250-275 degrees til it’s 165-170 in the thick spots.

 

It just occurred to me, what happened to @Misplaced Nebraskan? I haven’t seen him in this thread in a while....

 

PM incoming

 

He's good, just been busy. We sext...errrr...text every once in a while.

 

Naughty

 

We could go havsies on Bail.
You know he’s good for it.

 

Sautee half an onion with a green pepper and 4 large cloves of garlic for about 30 minutes.

Add to about 3 pounds of 80/20 and 2 eggs.

Salt and pepper.

Unicorn that shit. More is better. Maybe 1/4 cup? Shit I don't know.

Make a loaf of meat.

Sweet Baby Ray's. Aw yeah.

Smoke at about 225 for 2 hours, or until you get hungry. [This took way longer than I expected, hence the next step]

Crank up the heat. Add more Sweet Baby Ray's for about 30 minutes.

Pull at about 145.

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Down the hatch.

 

I sous vide some brisket and made tacos for dinner. I love me some reheated brisket!

 

eh, it’s mushrooms and gluten and some flavorings + beets. Not blended and mashed into a burger, they’d probably be a great vegetable side. I’ve only had a few, I could tell the difference and I hate it when people say “it’s the same thing you won’t even tell!” Like that’s not the point. I want to know the difference, I want a burger that isn’t beef, why would I mimic it so that it needs to be like beef?




Side note. We’re having a small thanksgiving and we’re hosting it this year. I got a turkey breast and some turkey wings, the wings I decided to test last night, I can go get more tonight on my way home from work for the big day. Recipes said 400 or so for about an hour. After 45 minutes them bitches were over cooked I don’t know who’s cooking using those recipes but that’s insane.

 

fuck turkey, we are going with a tri-tip this year for Thanksgiving

 

Brisket here. Local rancher is selling me 2 @ $2lb.

 

all the recipes i looked at said over 1hr cook or 165° internal temp...

 

Yeah, 45 minutes and they were definitely over 165. Usually the recipes I find are at least close, maybe 40 minutes instead of 45. I'll try another method/shorter cook tonight instead. Might try them on the grill instead of the oven like I did last night. I need to double check that I have propane though :| I think my tank is near the end of empty. Never did fill up the empty as a back up. Woopsies.

 

Cook time seems way too long to me but ive never cooked them. Maybe the extended time is to get the meat to fall off the bone?

 

The other thing I do is mix some chips in with the pellets. I fill about 1/3 of the tube with pellets, then 1/3 with chips, then top it off with pellets. The chips will catch faster, and give off more smoke than the pellets, and by the time they are burned out, the pellets are well on the way.

 

Spatchcock ftw, but it probably won't fly with the wife, from a presentation standpoint, on Turkey Day.

 

Rarely do we have the bird on display, when its done i let it rest and slice, then put it on the table

 

I hauled propane back in the 90s. A few people would show up at my house at all hours to get a 20lb tank refilled. I offered to sell them another tank so they would have 2. One empty, drop it off here and I'll fill it up when I start the truck next time. Soooo, they would show up with 2 empty tanks. They need gas and they need it now! Burgers etc are on the grill and ran out of propane. That's why I quit.

I have a wet leg on an extra 300g tank, I can still fill my own tanks.

 

Maybe, but I can tell you, these things were done. Burned on the bottom. So, I dunno.

Yeahhhh I'm usually better at it. It's not particularly difficult, I pass by like 4 places I can get it filled on my way to and from work and am near a few I can hit up during lunch. Actually, good point, I might be running home at lunch today so I can grab it then and fill it up on my way home!

I have natural gas lines to my house. Means heating is cheap. But I do know you can connect them to grills. I'm tempted to check it out, but I would have to run lines and whatnot. If we end up staying here long term, maybe.