Food Smokers and Smoking Tips/Tricks/Techniques

Almost done

 

Wasn’t feeling wings for today! Won’t be ready at kickoff, but I have plenty of beer and chips to get me thru!

 

Look At the Racks On That!!!

 

Alright, so now the Turkey is done-diggity.

He got stuck in a Reynolds Oven Bag, which by the way are really useful and if you don't use them already you should. Whenever I want to wrap something like for a "Texas Crutch" I just stick whatever it is in an oven bag. They handle the smoker temps just fine and they never leak like foil does sometimes. I buy a bunch of them when they are on sale, usually after the new years as the grocery store gets rid of the ones they stocked up on for TG, Xmas, and new years.

Anyway, he went into the bag, which was wrapped in the big beach towel and then shoved into the Coleman hard cooler.

Now I've put on a few taters to smoke and dinner time should be around 5-5:30ish. The turkey can carry that long in the cooler and still be plenty hot.

Breast temp finished at around 167, thigh at around 170. I had tented the breast with foil toward the end trying to let the dark meat coast a little higher but oh well. I always forget that when I use the Turkey steamer thing it cooks faster overall and the breast temp tends to run closer to the thigh temp than if I don't use the steamer thingy. I prefer the dark meat to get up to around 180 or so, I just think the texture is a little better that way with the dark meat (I prefer the dark meat but nobody else in the fam does). If I'm doing a chicken I sometimes lay an ice pack over the breast while I'm getting the smoker ready to make sure that happens.

In the pics you can see the drumstick meat has pulled away from the bone. He'll be pretty tender I reckon.

I'll put up a couple more pics when it's sliced up later.

 

Happy Super Bowl

 

Awwwww Yea! Super Bowl Food Porn!

 

My local depot had this.

 

6 Costco sized racks...hope it’s enough

 

Purty need that for my wife

 

So did you get a new gasser??

 

You say "had this"

That mean you have it now?

 

Pflugerville Home Depot in the garden area.

Typo. She’s still there. My gift card only had $30

No new gasser but very tempting

 

Three racks of baby backs on the Akorn today.


And smoked the veggies for salsa for the first 90 minutes of the cook. Then under the broiler for some char.

 

Evening. Did a whole pork loin on the cooker. 135*. sliced thin and sauced!

 

Pork belly game has been pretty strong lately!

 

@Misplaced Nebraskan
Getting started on you pit.

 

There is some outstanding looking food in here today. I was going to quote them all, but there's too many.

Great job everyone. I suspect there will be a lot of happy Super Bowl parties.

 

Looks like a Half Time Show there.

 

Bit on the small side for him.

 

So we got out of soccer later than I expected. Had to drive an hour back towards home then to the grocery store. Bought the stuff for armadillo eggs and bacon wrapped stuffed chicken but as we were walking through the store I started not feeling the cooking. SO I decided I’m taking the pork chops left over from the other day I’m going to cut them up into pieces and then toss them in some bbq sauce and rub and toss them on the smoker to come up to temp again. They will go on nachos. So I’m doing Bbq pork nachos.