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First Brisket, Yay Fun!
Well, dang. Went to Costco yesterday, but there was no brisket! I was out of time and couldn't go to another shop, so I ended up getting two slabs of pork spareribs and about 5 pounds of breakfast sausage (thinking fatty here). I feel bad that I set up this thread just to let you guys down... -
First Brisket, Yay Fun!
Greetings! After my rousing success with smoking some Butts on my MES (my early Father's Day gift), I'm now doing my next adventure with the black beer fridge of a smoker: brisket! Having read some of the threads, I'm looking forward to this. I'll be getting up earlier than I did with the pork... -
First Post, First Smoked Shoulder
Without further ado, the overdue Q-View: And Now, The Smoked Butt Wrap-Up: The Q shown above was magical. Unctuous, lip-smacking, as close to a religious experience as this poor soul is likely to ever see. $25 of meat, a few bucks worth of wood chips, a few feet of aluminum foil and my... -
First Post, First Smoked Shoulder
12 hour checkpoint. Success! Top shelf butt settled at 190, finally. First measure of the bottom shelf butt toddling along at 175, so it stays in the locker while it's better half is now resting in the cooler, wrapped in towel. Should I mention that the thermometer slid in to that top shelf... -
First Post, First Smoked Shoulder
The sun never sets on good barbeque... nuff said. --R -
First Post, First Smoked Shoulder
11 hour checkpoint: Shoulder on the top rack is at 185! I feel pulled pork beckon to me, irresistible siren song drawing me to sit by the smoker with a beer in hand, pondering... I grudgingly put the bad boy back in the locker, I'm figuring for another 30 minutes to an hour. Didn't bother... -
First Post, First Smoked Shoulder
This was my thought, Bubba. Almost made me wish I had put both butts on the top shelf. Next time, smokehouse. Next time. So, 2nd shoulder is now wrapped at 160 (though it seemed to be almost grudging in its admission of "yeah, okay, I'm hot enough now"). I'll wait another couple hours to do... -
First Post, First Smoked Shoulder
Of course, I didn't bring the Q-View. I am retarded. So, one is parked at 155, the other well north of 160, so I wrapped the one that's over the hill. In transferring it to the foil, a tiny bit came off and I popped it in my mouth... Eleventy million delicious angels sang their hickory-smoked... -
First Post, First Smoked Shoulder
As an aside, about the MES 20070106. This smoker kicks ***. It has the latch to seal the door, the vent at the top to throttle the smoke, and the handy little turn-and-dump loader for wood chips. This last thing has made the difference for me, since I get all uppity about opening the hot box to... -
First Post, First Smoked Shoulder
Okay, all you skeptics! At the six-hour checkpoint (six hours of smoke) I have one shoulder at 160, the other at 155. I'm going to smoke them another 45 minutes and then wrap the buggers in foil and stick them back in the locker. Just told The Boss (who was chuckling at the name of this forum... -
First Post, First Smoked Shoulder
I will look at doing a fatty ("fatty" means something TOTALLY different to a guy who grew up in Northern California, just sayin'), though I'm not prepared to do one today. I'm expecting to pull this pork. Having never done that, I expect it will be... interesting (in a... -
First Post, First Smoked Shoulder
I hear that. I officially offer a shrug. Wouldn't be the first time I was up late for dinner, and I've already set the expectation with The Boss that we might be making a stand-in for the kids' dinner tonight. Things are moving along nicely. Just about to drop in 3rd handful of chips to the... -
First Post, First Smoked Shoulder
I'm about to embark on The Journey of Smoke. No one can say when exactly it will end (I like the thought of "just keep smokin' until the butt hits 145)... I always love smoking, esp. when the smells drift over the house. Our tenant living just up the hill from us always seems to make a point of... -
Smokin' in the Wine Country
Wanted to update the thread on my gear. The MES model is 20070106, apparently basic but it more than meets my current requirements. -
Smokin' in the Wine Country
Greetings! I am a long-time smoked meat lover. Been smoking things like turkeys in Weber kettles for years (my dad taught me that trick), and started doing smoked baby back ribs a couple years ago using a side-by-side smoker borrowed from a friend. I live up in the Sonoma area in California...
