Food Smokers and Smoking Tips/Tricks/Techniques

Looks good. Way to represent Charlotte!
This is from a cook I did for work in December.

 

That’s a lot of meat!

 

Yeah.... a few times a year I do a big cook for work. For that cook I fed around 70 people. I cooked the pork at home and did around 90 pieces of chicken on site.

 

I see you have a smoke tube in there as well?

 

Yep... typically I do run a smoke tube on long cooks.

Since you are in the area. Check out this website. The store is in Salisbury and is owned by a friend of mine. You may find some things you like.

www.backcountryandbeyond.com

 

I will thanks. I’ve been meaning to get up there anyway, I think they are the closest place that sells Lumberjack pellets

edit: I’m wrong, they just sell Traeger pellets. Don’t want those, especially with their latest shenanigans haha

 

My in laws live in Salisbury.

 

What shenanigans?

 

I like shenanigans!

 

They were shitty to a dealer and pulled their license because they recommended some competition pellets over theirs. Bunch of drama, I’ll try to find the screen shot. Just happened a week ago. I won’t use their pellets because they use flavor oils or something and won’t really disclose what’s in there.

 

@KentuckyDoug @McRib

 

I see.... I’ll keep using them for now anyway. For my part, it’s important that I support my friend’s store and that’s what he sells.

 

Doh! Hit the bone on the last probe!

 

Lumberjack Competition Blend. There is no other. Well I guess there is, but they are all I use now.

 

I’m planning to try those next. Using the the cooking pellets.com Hickory today for my first smoke but I’ll switch to those when I can get some. The Competition blend seems like a great mix.

 

is that Mountain Island Lake?

 

bold move from a company who mfgs their grills in China and sells them at 2x the cost of comparable US made grills.

 

Just curious... what company manufacturers their grills in America and sells them for 1/2 the cost of a Traeger? Not disputing you.... just wondering.

 

I tried the pellet thing for a few years. Including tubes & trays and most pellets out there. Not a fan of pellets and I really did try including owning a pit boss. Although pretty much burnt it up trying to use real wood and charcoal eventually LOL.

I found many pellets out there in the tubes would build up with oils and creosote. I do like the Lumberjack pellets best of all if I were a pellet pooper person. For me they excelled over the others.

Hat off to you for supporting your friend. Especially him being a small business in these days and times. Did my Twilight Tour from the Navy in Western North Carolina. MEPS was in Charlotte and I spent a lot of time driving too and from. And more after I retired from the Navy going to businesses down the Mountain doing Business Process Consulting as a consultant. Which was 26 years ago. Damn that hurt my head just thinking about it because I am not that old! In my mind...

Guy with 3X reading glasses says not a problem seeing font size in document image...

Second picture is just showing off!! Considering the snow and cold here LOL. I knew what I was getting into when I left though. Beautiful homestead, well done. Reminds of a friends place on a finger of Lake Norman in the high rent district. I was in WNC when the blizzard of 93 hit and shut down everything for a week. Most of that was to West of the Saluda Grade and Black Mountain though.