Food Smokers and Smoking Tips/Tricks/Techniques

Now that is a damn fine birthday steak!

 

Hell yeah!

 

Smoking some stuff tonight

 

Make sure to remove the diaper first.

 

Pre stuffed

 

Nothing too special, just stumbled across this thread from the stonks thread.

I prefer dry rubbed ribs, my wife likes them slathered in BBQ sauce. Four hours on the pellet smoker, they were delicious. Bad pic, we ate late at night.

I don’t check temperature for ribs, just the bend test. They were tender, but not fall off the bone. I think ribs should be bite off the bone, not fall-off. Personal preference.

salt, pepper, garlic powder, onion powder, cumin, brown and white sugar, paprika.

 

Ribs are forgiving too. Hard to overcook, hard to undercook.

Looks good

PS you can try a 50/50 - I've made ribs where half were rubbed different than the other half. I don't know if sauce will change that since it changes the temps, though. But you could try it!

 

Yeah they are, ribs and pork shoulder are hard to mess up. My smoker (a pellet pooper) control board got fried from a rainstorm after the cover blew off. It wouldn't drop below 350*, I had planned ribs for dinner the next night. I threw them on anyway, omitted the sugar from the rub, kept a close eye on the temp, wrapped them at 160* and they still came out fine. They didn't taste as good as normal, but they weren't bad by any means.

I'll try the 50/50. I only sauce at the last 30 minutes, leave 'em on enough to get sticky and pull them.

 

Happy Thanksgiving y’all! Turkey breast and a carver ham for the wife and I.

 

Happy thanksgiving, y’all!

 

Turkey in the Bradley...

 

Covid cancelled the Thanksgiving plans, but the turkey, butt, and the wagyu brisket were already thawed. Too bad I won’t be able to taste it

 

Mine took about 5 days to return when I got the ‘rona.

 

Did you have it recently? Did you have mild symptoms?

 

Sorry to hear it ruined your plans! I got it for the second time about seven or eight weeks ago. Nasty cold for a few days, then the lungs felt it for about a week and a half. Didn't lose my sense of smell or taste this time, but did lose it for a couple days the first time I got it almost two years ago when my Mom gave it to me for xmas. I did get sidelined this week by RSV, though. Nasty fever for two days and then on day 5 of nasty coughing now, but starting to slow down.

Fingers crossed your taste comes back soon because that piece of brisket looks phenomenal

 

December 2020. Symptoms were almost non-existent. I felt a little winded at times but in pre-COVID world I would’ve gone into work the way I felt. Took a rapid test, negative. Wifey took one, positive. Went and took the one they send off but I knew I had it on the way there. I was driving the wifeys car and used some of her hand sanitizer. It was apple something or other. Couldn’t smell a thing. Held my hands right to my face and sniffed. Couldn’t smell apple but got the essence of alcohol if that makes sense. Burned a little but no smell. My sense of taste was affected but not as bad. Smell was completely gone. Weird as shit. Of course the worst thing you can do is Google it. “Smell gone forever” and all the other BS like didn’t smell the exhaust leak, ate rancid meat blah blah BS you’d expect online to get you worked up. Day 5 I woke up and went to the MIL who was cooking spaghetti. I walked in and caught the slightest whiff of garlic and marinara. Buddy, that was a happy moment. Started coming back on day 5, taste and smell. Took another week to get completely right again.

 

Back in August of ‘21….hit me like a ton of bricks. And I literally never get sick. Anywho, fast forward after 5 days of sleeping and fevers, I was showering and realized I wasn’t smelling the shampoo or soap. Got out, dried off, got dressed. Over to the pantry, grabbed the Costco sized white vinegar and stuck my nose into the bottle. NOTHING! Still got a little of the burn of vinegar, but zero of the scent. Craziest thing ever. Had some fun with it for a few days, then slowly back to normal. Worst lasting effect was the tiredness/feeling winded. That took a few months. Hope y’all feel better quick!

 

That’s the boat I’m in - I get the EsSeNcE of flavor/aroma, but no real sense. I know when something is salty, vinegary, spicy, etc., but nothing else. It’s like someone is yelling the flavor from another room as I’m eating.