Food Smokers and Smoking Tips/Tricks/Techniques

Went and got that Weber. All parts accounted for including a grill brush and charcoal baskets. Loooots of filth and mold though... Will give it a full belly of charcoal and burn it out, then clean it up. Pics will follow when that happens, probably tomorrow night.

Pretty sure the $10 was a "I don't want to clean this" price

 

X2, every word LOL. You can have my cast iron grates. The Slow N Sear. But my baskets and Vortex stay

Another advantage of the Vortex over the baskets is that the heat is evenly distributed. I can put wings right up to it and never have to turn or touch a thing. Can pack a lot of meat on with the Vortex.

 

It's just ash on the lid, but can see the mold in the bowl.

 

Fire it up

 

Smoked some mac and cheese today ... It was good but it wasn't knock my neighbor's socks off great.

I'm totally open to any recipes that y'all wanna share

 

This is my Saturday morning coming up. Ive got a bunch of Lake Trout and a couple of Rainbows that I’m going to pack in salt and brown sugar on Friday for smoking the next morning.

I’ll be using my 22” Weber, which cost me a bit more than $10 but looks exactly like the one on he last page. I’ve got a bunch of big chunks of apple wood and will hot smoke the fish with the skin on.

Last Fall I did the same thing and the kids ended up taking all my beautiful smoked trout and eating it for lunches at school. It was really very good.

The plan is to start a small pile of hardwood charcoal and add the Apple wood once there’s a nice bed of coals. Thinking about it, I did have a bit of trouble keeping it going last year so I’ll have to do some research on solving that problem.

 

Lots-o-fire

I will tomorrow night, got a lot of cleaning and stuff to do tonight and tomorrow around the house.

 

I just did ^^^ Recipe. Realllly like it. Worth a shot if your looking for a recipe. I didn't smoke it til brown like they did, but had a good flavor to it.

 

Just got an uuni pretty stoked the first pie came out pretty great.

 

No boil smoked mac n cheese, my favorite.

2 1/2 cups of uncooked elbow noodles
3/4 stick butter
12 ounces yellow cheddar cheese, shred a brick it melts better and less oil
4 oz. Velveeta cheese to make it creamier
2 cup heavy cream
3 cups whole milk
1/4 tsp garlic powder
1/4 tsp onion powder
salt and pepper
bacon ends cut small
2.5 hours at 240. Careful not to over cook. Stir 3 times toward the end.Helps if you smoke some pork belly burnt ends over the top of them and let the juices drip down into it





Any time I do beans or mac n cheese always try to have something dripping into them. Usually pork. OK, always pork of some type.

 

Awesomeness! Thanks guys for pointing me in the right direction!!

 

I didnt know what a vortex was until Cold Iron. His food looked so good I bought a vortex allso and I love it.

 

Hands down the best mac n cheese ever.

 

Get some hot water, 000 steel wool, razor blade, white vinegar and dawn soap. 15min of elbow grease and she’ll look brand new

 

Pork chop with @bvbull200 rub. Once seared, set off to the side and slow cooked it with a chunk of hickory. Towards the end I brushed on a mix of honey and bourbon to give it a bit of sweet to counter the heat from the rub.

 

Thanks. Was gonna hit you up since you have done a few

 

I use better than boullion beef base rubbed on steaks sometimes when i grill,didnt know anyone else used it!

 

That looks Great.i had to take a Crestor just looking at all that food

 

If I keep listening to you I'm going to lose my job.

 

Beef base also works well as a rub for brisket First time used it was from this brisket recipe by Grill Girl, better than sex brisket the name got me. And I really liked it. Switched to it for my vegetable beef soup instead of bullion cubes and if there is any in the fridge will also put it on steaks once in awhile

Yeah for 20 years I fought the BF% thing, I hear you. It is the damn carbs which I love of course. For the last 20 years I haven't had to fight the measurements and semiannual heart stress test of timed runs, etc. But it is now easier to avoid the carbs when I have control over the food I have available to eat. Well I have ability, doesn't mean I actually have control to do so LOL. Damn I want some Mac N Cheese now...