Food Smokers and Smoking Tips/Tricks/Techniques

Im not sure what or how my friend adjusted his. It did have smoke flavor but my smoker with wood chunks had far more smoke taste than his did. Both were tender just mine had a deeper smoke flavor. They do work great though.

 

It has a lot to do with the brand of pellets used. The Traeger ones are almost flavorless.

 

Maze lit...check

Small pork loin...check

Rubbed and ready...check

 

Speaking of burgers, I read somewhere an idea of mixing the meat from bratwurst with ground beef. I grew up on Johnsonville brats, so I used those and did a one-to-one mix with beef. Man, those were good burgers. I haven't done that in a couple of years, though. Might have to bust out the method this weekend or something.

Wow, what a picture! That looks like a stock photo. Not to take anything away from the food, though, because that looks pretty spot on. How'd it turn out?

Some fine looking food. Looking forward to hearing the results. BBQ is usually just a weekend thing for me and my schedule. That's what I love about this thread - get to follow some awesome BBQ stuff during the week, too.

 

Thanks, it was a combo of a shallow depth of field and a little bit of post processing. The belly just melted as you at it. The spam is always good no matter what wood I use.

 

EXACTLY what I was going to say. I switched to lumberjack pellets and it was night and day difference on the smoke flavor.

 

You use,non treager pellets in your traeger?

 

Everybody I know with a Traeger uses non-Traeger pellets.

 

Pulled at 142, rested for a few minutes, pretty much perfect. I usually just grill these, but I’m thinking that’s about to change.

 

Good to know

 

I don’t have a Traeger, my brother does, and the Traeger ones are very bland.

 

One of the benefits of living in the frozen tundra not sure about the rest of the country. Johnsonville sells brat patties here. My favorite happen to be Bacon, cheddar brat patties. Last week hunting did up some one night. They are even great left over cold. Will be taking King Hawaiian rolls with me next week though instead of onion rolls too much bread on those.



There are those damn grillgrates on the Jumbo Joe again. For this they work extremely well too.

 

Any rub that's worth a damn will be gluten free. Its like when I see a bag of beef jerky that says gluten free. Uh, yeah, no shit. F'n Americans.

 

I only use non Traeger pellets in mine. Not a fan of theirs, good for making heat in there but not for adding flavor. Warranty may say it's voided if you use non Traeger pellets but that's not legal.

 

Not trying to start anything, it's just the only one that specified it. Being that it must be avoided because of a medical issue and not preference, we're playing the better safe than sorry game since the sorry part is a day or more of pain.

 

Yep I forgot to take pictures, started drinking too early lol

 

If your going to drink all day you’ve got to start early.

 

Sorry, didn't mean for it to sound like an attack on you. I just get annoyed by all the marketing pandering to dumb dumbs who can't turn a product over and read the list of ingredients. I do understand that not all spices and ribs mixes divulge all the ingredients though.

 

You just sold a STŌK™ grill!

I am for sure going to buy that insert for my Weber!

 

Pricey but great stuff...

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