Food Smokers and Smoking Tips/Tricks/Techniques

Royal oak is pretty good in my experience.

The royal oak Lowe’s brand is total junk. Can’t even remember the name but my ash bin weighed almost as much as the charcoal I put into the bbq after a cook. Hardly any heat too! Also super cheap so you get what you pay for.

Hopefully Costco will deliver. The Kingsford pro stuff was pretty good IMO.

 

Royal Oak is my go to for briquettes.

 

Yes please!

 

Turned out a-ok!

 

Happy St. Patrick's day folks!

Does it count as irish if i use a whiskey glaze?

 

Only if it's Bushmills or Jameson...

 

Smoking a 4lb spatchcocked chicken.

 

Today’s yummy goodness. Also leftovers.

 

oops forgot to take the off the smoker picture...

 

What a day... or technically two days, considering how long a pork shoulder takes. I ran out of my supply of frozen pulled pork, so I cooked another one today. I was also in the mood for some homemade chili. A perfect combination of the bone from the pulled pork shoulder simmering in my chili with some added fresh pulled pork. Amazing combination.

Rubbing my meat.


Lil tasting with some Carolina sauce while it cools to 130F to pull.


Pork pulled. Find the bone.





tasting time

this was phenomenal. Two bean two meat chili w some GOAT sauce.

 

Tri-Tip with some Meat Church Holy Gospel

 

What did you pay per lb? It's CRAZY here.

 

I can't remember how much I paid per pound but all together was $15ish.

 

So probably close to $8/lb, assuming this is about 2.xx lbs., which is pretty much going rate for trimmed tri-tip here in SoCal. I prefer to buy mine untrimmed for closer to $5/lb.

 

They might source them from multiple suppliers, so in Region A, it's form Supplier A, and Region B is supplier B, etc.

That's because nobody uses that cut around here, so it's not stocked and distributed.

PS Steak Tips is a New England thing. I didn't know that until a couple years ago. It's the same idea. Shaw's might stock them around here, but down in TX they'd wonder WTF you're smoking when you ask for "steak tips".

 

@GarlicFarts
I think steak tips is a Massachusetts thing. Never see them on a menu in CT or at the meat counter. Were they a thing In Maine?

 

This place is money but the steak tips are phenomenal.

https://avonprimemeats.com/apm_category/beef/page/2/

Next time you come through to visit..

 

I LOVE that kind of stuff...we were watching Bluey and they called it "Bubblah"

I've found tri-tip at the supercenter walmart ....also the only place now that has a full packer brisket...I'm always looking for a marked down one but it never happens.

 

I went out looking for corned beef yesterday after work. Nothing didn't even have any discount meat Monday deals going on. Shenanigans.

But turns out the save a lot does have 1-2lb sections of flats and points as a regular. So that's cool, will be getting those time to time.