Food Smokers and Smoking Tips/Tricks/Techniques

I have two friends that trimmed or cut apples trees down recently, asked me how much I wanted. I asked how much they have!!
Looks like I'll be set on Apple for a while.

 

Bacon cheddar stuffed steakburgers

 

How you make? I've tried a couple methods and they suck. Would like to change that. Juicy Lucy is calling my name.

 

I cooked 4 pieces of bacon and cut it up. I had 1lb of meat and wanted 3 burgers, so I made 6 patties. I did 1 patty + bacon crumbles + 1 to 2 tbsp of shredded cheddar + another patty... Squish it together. Just salt and pepper on the outside.

Really the secret to stuffing bacon into any burger is to precook it. You'll never get the become texture and flavor by stuffing raw bacon inside. I've also smashed uncooked bacon into the outside before and that works OK, but not as good as just precooking it to whatever doneness of bacon you like.

 

Sounds like the secret is not too much cheese... 2 tbsp ain't much, but maybe that's what it takes to not have them explode.

 

Yeah too much cheese and they fall apart. I topped these with a slice of Colby jack.

 

Nice. So a bit more cheese on top to finish? Makes sense. 2 tbsp seems a bit sparse, but the slice on top would make it all work. Sharp or medium cheddar inside?

 

I don't really know. Probably mild because it's what the kids will eat. I've also stuffed them with feta and put Greek seasoning on the outside.

I also didn't really measure the cheese. It was a tiny pile. Enough to cover the bacon and other meat, but not so much that it was solid cheese. You could still see the meat beneath the cheese.

 

Good nuff. Thanks much, will try.

 

I'm smoking many much goose breasteses....

 

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That's too many tits for one post.

 

Lol. Making pastrami. Had these in brine, now rubbed with cracked pepper and coriander.. This my 2nd large batch. All in all about 50 smoked breasts.

 

What species, and do they taste good? I always turn my geese into sticks, pepperoni, sausage, etc.

 

Big Canadians. Oh they are pretty tasty. I save some and slice them thin, marinate them for a day and then toss them on the grill or slice them into strips and fry them into fajita meat.

By far my family likes them as pastrami.

 

I haven't hunted them for a years, but am trying to get back into it. Need to find some fields locally. Mainly resident birds here. Migrant season has a daily bag of two, almost not worth getting up.

 

And they make some tasty pastrami sammy's.. Mmmmmm...

 

Took advantage of this crazy warm weather for the midwest

 

Cool! You don't see too many people spatchcocking birds anymore!

 

Looks amazing

 

Spatchcock... the only way to fly.