Food Smokers and Smoking Tips/Tricks/Techniques

Trying the Famous Dave's chicken seasoning again, this time with some Season Salt added.



And no crazy thick bronto breasts this time!

 

Not quite as hammy as last time and with more spices. The season salt/Famous Dave's is a decent combination.

Accompanied by mashed sweet potatoes and more stuffing.

 

ThermoPop on sale: https://www.thermoworks.com/thermopop/

Thermapen too:https://www.thermoworks.com/classic-thermapen/

 

Fyi, they go on sale often. If you join their membership they'll send you notices.

 

I just bought a thermapen and joined.

I have a thermopop too that I bought on a group buy here.

Figured I’d share for those who aren’t in on the in.

 

20$ reasonable.

I still prefer one of these (no-battery-required) bad boys

 

Thank you. I've had the thermapop for a number of years now but I just sprung for a a thermapen!

 

Just don't pay attention to the left side.

 

Why I pull mine at 170 it comes out great!

 

Jokes aside a pork loin on the smoker for slicing instead of pulling is great. I do it alongside turkey breasteses and sausages all the time.

 

I currently have a Pitboss Lockhart and a Pitboss Sierra griddle and love them. I do tutorial videos and ton of pics on my FB BBQ page grillin n chillin. In just over a year built up 900 + members. Brings so much joy. Absolutely love it!

 

Life is good!

 

Cheesin'

 

This one turned out pretty good.

 

Mornin' y'all.

Cheese is sleeping in the fridge for a couple weeks

Question for the pellet guys. I remember there was a discussion about which pellets to/not to use, and I think it was because some had oils?

Questions:

1. What is it that I/"one" wants to avoid, is it oils?
2. Which brand/make of pellets does not have this in there?

My friend asked about doing their own cheese smokes, and I mentioned use pellets not chips, but can't remember which pellets

 

Traeger pellets contain flavored oils so I personally avoid those. They're also more expensive so another reason to avoid them.

I prefer the Pit Boss pellets which are about 1/2 the cost and twice the quality.

 

So... should I buy more meater probes? I've got one and I like it mostly (wish it had longer range, though), but it's pricey enough not to be a 'no brainer'. Any alternatives?

 

Personally I consider 2 probes to be bare minimum. One for grill temp the other for meat. I get by with one for a meat probe as I just use the one probe in the shortest duration thing I have on the grill, then when the one is done, move the probe to the next...

 

Oh yeah the pellet has a temp sensor built in (and probes, tbh, but wireless > wired) and the meater has an ambient part and a meat part.