Food Smokers and Smoking Tips/Tricks/Techniques

Here is the other thing I threw on the smoker yesterday - armadillo eggs.

Sweet peppers, cored stuffed with a mixture of cream cheese and shredded Tillamook cheddar. Pepper was then wrapped with Frank Corriher sausage from good ol’ Landis, NC. The whole shebang was then wrapped in bacon, my first attempt at a bacon weave. The guests ate them before I could try them but I hear they were good.

 

I picked up one of the packaged corned beef briskets because it was a steal of a deal and I haven't seen fresh brisket on sale in forever around here. I can't imagine it will cook any different than a regular brisket flat, just without the trimming, but does anyone else have experience with these?

 

Its about the same, I cook them quite often! DO NOT ADD SALT OF ANY KIND!

 

those are preseasoned. Different than plain brisket

 

Muchos grassy ass!

 

Obviously it's going to taste different and being smoked or grilled is going to concentrate the seasoning which is salt heavy. You can choose to soak in cold water for an hour or so and change out the water every 20 minutes to help pull some of the salt out.

You can also choose to make a rub for it with coriander and black pepper and turn it into a pastrami.. you can google rub recipes.

Remember it gets sliced across the grain and cook it more by temp and feel than time. Good luck and post pictures!

 

I did the math and if my figures and calculations are correct… 228 pieces of bacon for 19 eggs!!! Goodlord! Weave me a basket of bacon!

 

Well, hell... Now I feel a need to thaw out some of the packages of hypertension I have in the freezer.

 

Hahaha, close, but the horizontal pieces on the weave are 1/2 so 4 slices vertical and 2 total horizontal. Of the 19 peppers only 6 were used for armadillo eggs with sausage and bacon weave. The other 13 were simply stuffed then 1 piece of bacon used to wrap so 49 pieces of bacon. Still quite a bit….

 

Doooo eet

 

Yea I wanted to count them as halves but who halves bacon! Isn’t that a punishable offense?

 

Recession bacon rationing

 

Lady wants Thai for dinner so I’m only smoking is some cream cheese today. Slathered in some On Point and a little extra smoked paprika.

 

You forgot your photo...

But I'll post one of mine




It's a little more advanced than regular smoked cream cheese !

 

i just put it on so I’m waiting patiently just as you shou… wait… wtf did you do that looks amazing!

 

looks like an everything bagel spice and what else??

 

So kinda like Bagels Camo then.

 

First of all.. I cooked up some bacon and then chopped that up .. added a couple cups of cheese, the bacon, some ranch dip mix, a bunch of chopped chives and the cream cheese and mixed it all together then reshaped into blocks and coated with Everything Bagel Seasoning - then scored in a diamond pattern for the effect while it smoked! HAHA

 

Looks Awesome