Food Smokers and Smoking Tips/Tricks/Techniques

is that Mountain Island Lake?

 

bold move from a company who mfgs their grills in China and sells them at 2x the cost of comparable US made grills.

 

Just curious... what company manufacturers their grills in America and sells them for 1/2 the cost of a Traeger? Not disputing you.... just wondering.

 

I tried the pellet thing for a few years. Including tubes & trays and most pellets out there. Not a fan of pellets and I really did try including owning a pit boss. Although pretty much burnt it up trying to use real wood and charcoal eventually LOL.

I found many pellets out there in the tubes would build up with oils and creosote. I do like the Lumberjack pellets best of all if I were a pellet pooper person. For me they excelled over the others.

Hat off to you for supporting your friend. Especially him being a small business in these days and times. Did my Twilight Tour from the Navy in Western North Carolina. MEPS was in Charlotte and I spent a lot of time driving too and from. And more after I retired from the Navy going to businesses down the Mountain doing Business Process Consulting as a consultant. Which was 26 years ago. Damn that hurt my head just thinking about it because I am not that old! In my mind...

Guy with 3X reading glasses says not a problem seeing font size in document image...

Second picture is just showing off!! Considering the snow and cold here LOL. I knew what I was getting into when I left though. Beautiful homestead, well done. Reminds of a friends place on a finger of Lake Norman in the high rent district. I was in WNC when the blizzard of 93 hit and shut down everything for a week. Most of that was to West of the Saluda Grade and Black Mountain though.

 

Lake Wylie

 

Following.

 

Meat looks great. Pool water looks blue. River? water looks green. Wife looks comfy.

LJ dealer 5 miles from me, 40# is $20 OTD. If they are not home, just grab a bag and pay up next time I see him or his wife. I've tried several brands and several of LJs other flavors. The only difference I could tell was the smell of the smoke. I could not tell a difference in the flavor of the food. YMMV

 

Pork belly burnt ends

 

maybe not half, it was just an expression.

Nonetheless they are overpriced for what they are.

 

40# for $20 is a great deal. I may get a pallet, do a group buy, some of the guys local to me have expressed interest.

 

It's a poor worker that blames his tools, Mike.

If I could turn out amazing food like you do, I would not be a fan of poopers either.

 

Pallets can be bought direct from LJ with delivery for cheaper than $20 per. iirc a pallet is 1 ton. Thattsa lotta pellets. Got room to store them?

 

Well they sell a quarter, half, and full ton. I expect they all come on a pallet. How much I order will depend on the local interest.

 

Go big or go home!

 

hell I’m probably in for 10x 40lb bags...I’ll just store them in some 5gal buckets.

 

I’ll make some calls and get some numbers this week, then will get a list together of how much folks want

 

you will wish you had something as a backup when this one fails when you least expect it

Enjoy the new cooker

 

I just bought 40# of LJ pecan for $8.00. Busted bags at work (Rural King). Been making/selling jerky like a boss, got nine pounds of “eye of round” on this very minute and another 5lb roast in the freezer for slicing later this evening and smoke tomorrow. Most all is spoken for.

This was last Sunday, and did a mid-week batch as well.

 

Mid week smoke. Notice sample bag in bottom right.

 

nice. Got a recipe or is it a secret?