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  1. cmack

    Quick Notes: 1st Hot & Fast Brisket

    Nope ,no phosphate used here, just a heavy salt, pepper, garlic powder rub, oakwood smoke and scorching hot temps.
  2. cmack

    Quick Notes: 1st Hot & Fast Brisket

    Looks great.I'm currently cooking around 420 degrees and that's only because I can't maintain anything higher.
  3. cmack

    Extreme Hot & Fast Brisket

    Chile, I can't imagine doing an overnighter anymore. Consider planning brisket for dinner, sleep in until 0900, drink coffee, watch the news, leisurely start your fire, cook your brisket and have dinner on the table for 1800. That's living the dream. Next up will an extreme hot and fast pork butt.
  4. cmack

    Big'ol Brisket Done Extreme Hot-n-Fast

    Looks great Chile, glad it worked for you. I'm never going back to low and slow
  5. cmack

    Eight days later

    That's mighty tasty looking.
  6. cmack

    Pastrami from scratch

    A couple of weeks back I decided to try my hand at Pastrami. Love the stuff! Searched the internet looking for a suitable recipe and came across one at Amazing Ribs. First I took a choice brisket flat, trimmed to 1/4", made up a brine/cure , bagged it in a 2.5 gal ziplok and into a 37 degree...
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  7. cmack

    Extreme Hot & Fast Brisket

    I got hooked on hot and fast after spending time in Lockhart and Luling and talking to the guys tending the pits. Completely changed my way of both seasoning and cooking briskets. I've been pushing the limits just to see where the sweet spot is. With my current equipment, I have pretty much hit...
  8. cmack

    Extreme Hot & Fast Brisket

    Total time on pit was 3 hours 45 minutes
  9. cmack

    Extreme Hot & Fast Brisket

    For some years now, I have been gradually increasing my cook temps on briskets, with great results. I finally decided to go whole in and see just how hot I could pull it off. Cooking on a Weber performer with a Slow N Sear, have 2 temp probes, one for the meat and one about 1.5 inches above the...
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  10. cmack

    MES 40 croaked today

    I used the cheap ones made for cars.
  11. cmack

    RIbs and smoked beans

    I used St. Louis ribs with membrane removed. Allowed to come to room temp, rubbed with salt, black pepper, garlic powder and brown sugar. set the MES @ 250. loaded the cold smoke attachment with hickory pellets. Let them cook 3.5 hours, ribs were perfectly cooked but had that funky...
  12. cmack

    RIbs and smoked beans

    MES 40 worked just fine! That's pretty much the only bright spot to this cook. I tried using straight hickory pellets in the cold smoker and it put a terrible funk on the ribs and beans. Oh well, live and learn. The tater salad was good though.  
  13. cmack

    MES 40 croaked today

    As a matter of fact this one came from Sam's club. Actually the wires did appear corroded rather than burned off. Bought this one in August last year. I just replaced the connectors but if it gives me any mire grief I'll replace the wires also. Got it smokin right now with ribs and beans.
  14. cmack

    RIbs and smoked beans

    Put on 2 racks of St. Louis ribs and a pan of beans. 1st run since the repair job.
  15. cmack

    MES 40 croaked today

    Finally got around to installing the element yesterday. Pulled the cover plate on the back of the unit and found that one of the push on connectors had literally burned off the terminal. cleaned everything up put 2 new terminals on and she works like a charm and I have a spare heating element to...
  16. cmack

    MES 40 croaked today

    Spoke with Masterbuilt customer service a few minutes ago and they're sending me a new heating element free of charge. Hopefully this will alleviate the issue.
  17. cmack

    MES 40 croaked today

    So today I loaded 4 pork butts in my 7 month old MES 40, brought it up to 250 and away we went. After cooking flawlessly for about 4 1/2 hours I noticed both the MES and my Maverick temp probes beginning to fall. The heating element light was till on but it was no longer heating.Temp fell to...
  18. cmack

    HEB has pork butts for .97 pound

    I always try to keep 2 or 3 butts in the meat freezer. Never know when i might want to make sausage or pulled pork, Can;t pass them up at that price. Probably get a couple more this weekend.
  19. cmack

    HEB has pork butts for .97 pound

    Here in SouthEast Texas the HEB stores have pork butts for .97 per pound with an additional $10 purchase. Limit 2 per person. I just picked up a couple for the freezer.
  20. cmack

    Trying Hickory pellets in my MES 40 with cold smoker

    I'm gonna work with this MES cold smoker for a while. I've had really good results up to this point. When I 1st turned it on I put some cherry wood chips in the loader tube and then filled the cold smoker with the pellets, I could have gotten some nasty smoke at the beginning while I was...
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