Food Smokers and Smoking Tips/Tricks/Techniques

They weren't bad, I've used the chips before.

 

Do they add any real flavor? I’ve thought about them and trying the Lumberjack charcoal pellets.

 

You don't say

 

I know the smoke was a bit different. Just get a bag and check 'em out, what is the worst that can happen?

 

Will have to grab some when I see them.

 

Good lord! These were $12.99 at Academy Sports on Saturday!

$37 Jack Daniel's Smoking BBQ Pellets 20 Pounds

https://www.amazon.com/Delight-Jack-Daniels-Smoking-Pellets/dp/B00PIVDAD0

https://www.academy.com/shop/pdp/ja...and-tennessee-whiskey-20-lb-pellet-grill-fuel

 

Ya Amazon wants over $30 for my Lumberjack pellets. I pay $8 a bag from Rural King.

 

Have I said that before?

 

Saw that HD had a blue Akorn on sale for $279, so I went to the only store around here that had the possibility to buy it. No.

Then I went to the only other store that had the charcoal one for the same price. No.

So I started thinking about the supply chain, parts availability, warranty, known complaints (rusting in particular of the hinge bolts), and what I saw of the display one at Lowes.

Came home with the Weber Master Touch for $219. It may turn out to be a mistake for what I want to do, but the supply chain is solid, parts and accessories are readily available, and Weber has a great rep. If I have trouble, then in the future I'll look at a more expensive kamado or a Traeger. This should get me reacquainted with building a fire and maintaining it, and I should be able to sell it for a few bucks if I change my mind.

 

Is this a pellet bbq thread now?

 

Where’s the meat!

I don’t care how you cook it.

 

can be. I don’t have one though.

Sometimes you have an off night. Like tonight. Hormel beef tamales out of a can. I’ve had worse, to be fair.

Starting to pick through our two week quarantine stash. Boring stuff until Wednesday when aldis has chicken on sale!

 

Father’s Day brisket despite not being a father lol

 

I picked up a sample pack a couple of years ago that included the JD pellets.



Don't think I'd go on a search for them myself. Then again if it was a LONG cook where pellets actually added flavor to the meat....

No mistake, well except that it wasn't the 26" LOL. I have three 22" Weber kettles and only regret I have is that I didn't go with the 26" sooner for smoking. Have the 26" kettle now also and I only use it for smoking so the 22" have their place too. And 18" Jumbo Joe. And Genesis 4 burner with sear station. And 18" WSM. Hard to go wrong with Weber wish it hadn't taken me so long to realize it. Not sure I would go with their pellet pooper though, then again I'm not a die hard pellet smoker.

Pellet poopers. Pellet poopers everywhere....

Good because I did a thing on the Genesis tonight. Half a year on Atkins and wanted carbs. Corn. Beans.

King Crab and bacon wrapped tenderloin with the Grill Grates for the son and I.



I prefer my crab dry instead of soggy and have come to like it grilled best. Doesn't take long.

Did I mention corn and baked beans? Hey at least the baked beans have a smoked sausage patty cut up in it so counts as smoked, with almost a full onion diced and browned first.



Feel like a kid that just ate a whole bag of Halloween candy and has a sugar rush. Pretty sure the son has some ice cream in the freezer. And chocolate muffins. If I don't post anymore then I blew up from all the carbs

 

I mean... But I'd roll the dice!

I still need that stick burner

 

It is, because you don't post pics of your cooks anymore.

 

I’ve been too busy

Been having to use the gasser way too much.

But I live vicariously through this thread!

 

as a Mainer it was always lobster boils. But lately I’ve seen people elsewhere cut them in half and grill them. I have yet to try that but I would like to give it a whirl. I haven’t had crab legs in probably a decade if not longer. Actually hell I probably haven’t done a lobster boil in similar timeframe. I’ve had a lobster roll here and there but not an actual bib required lobster.

 

We love lobster and shrimp grilled.