Food Smokers and Smoking Tips/Tricks/Techniques

Very nice! Now I need to go thaw another one of my summer sausage logs out... I'm hungry!

 

Piggy butt is on. Already loving how PF melts so evenly.

 

14.5” WSM

Can only fit four chicken thighs and a 2.5# tri-tip

#smallWSMproblems

 

Nice, I just got one a few weeks ago. Haven't had a chance to use it yet.

 

Wife had to work, I had the boy all day, and was in the mood for something smoked. Was digging through the freezer to see what I could do for dinner. Look what I dug out. Vac packed portion of a butt I did a few months back. Put it straight into the crock pot with water covering it, took it to 185. It was just as good as the day I smoked it. Heated up some tortillas, shredded some smoked cheddar, piled it on with some salsa and sour cream.

 

Came out pretty good. Tri-tip was over cooked because I didn’t believe my thermometer. It was up to temp in 90 minutes. Thought I might have just stuck it in too far (that’s what she said). So I left it on for another 30mins which is my usually time...



Also cut the tri-tip correctly thanks to this thread

 

some brisket pic of the one I did Friday...First one is about 1hr into it, 2nd just came off the smoker, 3rd is sliced. A smidge on the dry end but still tasty, we have about 1/4 left from an orignial 10lb brisket, before trimming and cook.





Excuse the fancy plate

 

Good thing I remembered to bring the cooler to Anchorage this time...



...we don’t have this where I live.

 

Looks good.

That’s cheaper than what I pay around here.

 

I think I'm way overdue for a brisket... But y'all are setting the bar too high . Oh well... I'll keep my eyes open this week to see what I find.

 

you should have them all over down in TX...Up here we deal with almost $3 a lb....

 

Just a matter of waiting and finding that sub $2 deal

 

looks like normal price at HEB right now

 

Normal price down in Homer is $6.99/lb, but only for a whole packer. If you ask the butcher to trim it, the price goes up AND you still pay for the whole pretrimmed weight.

Texas has a lot going for it. HEB is one of those things.

 

I have quickly become a fan of HEB once I moved here.

 

Same in NorCal.

Just seems like too much for a poor cut of meat. I’d do it in a heart beat for $3 though.

 

Too bad Costco isn’t everywhere, $3.30 or so consistently for Prime whole packers.

 

Not sure about Costco. Closest one is an hour away.

I’M sure there are places within a few hours of me to get brisket cheaper. But locally $6/# is as cheap as I’ve seen it.

 

First time ever cooking short ribs. They were better than I expected. There just had salt in them and smoked with pecan smoke for about 6 hours.

 

Brisket is 2.99 here, I need to cook one again. But, last night burgers on the GMG was a fail. Igniter took a shit. One call, new on the way, free. Cast iron pan saved the.. night for the burgers tho.