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  1. gruelurks

    Pork butt beer injection

    Anyone ever do a smoked pork butt with some form of beer as an injection or marinade? Looking for some ideas for a beer/food tasting coming up this weekend. I have a lot of craft beer on hand, everything from Imperial IPA's, Bourbon Barrel-aged Russian Imperial Stouts, Scotch ales, fruity...
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    Tamales?

    I'm planning on doing some smoked pork butt tamales this weekend, and was curious as to what kind of approach others may have used in choice of wood, cooking method, seasoning, etc...? I was thinking of doing a partial smoke with mesquite for a couple hours at a high temp, then boiling the butt...
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    Couple monster smokers

    These were at the Michigan Winter Beer festival a couple weeks ago. You could smell the turkey legs cooking across the parking lot of the Fifth Third Ball Park in Grand Rapids, MI. I didn't get a chance to talk to the guy running them as he was extremely busy. Any of you MI folks know who it is...
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    Dougie/Frank smoked wings

    After a brief hiatus, I am back in action! Tonight I have a few pounds of Uncle Dougie/Franks Red Hot sauced wings soon to be smoked with hickory in the MES for a few hours before hitting the grill. Will post more later when they come out. Beer of choice for this smoke is Bell's Hopslam. :-)
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    Beer Advocate traders

    Just curious if any of you on here are also on Beer Advocate as well, and are up for some beer/sauce trading. I love a good sauce as well as getting sauced on good beer, and would enjoy trading some local beers/sauces with any of you. Being in Metro Detroit, I have access to a lot of awesome beers.
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    Screw the snow

    There will be pastrami tonight dammit.
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    Moinks and Butt.

    Getting ready for a beer tasting in Warren, MI. tonight, I elected to provide some of the munchies. I think this butt was one of my better ones yet as far as looks go. Tossed it in the 30" MES at 10pm last night, and just pulled it out a 2pm today. I rubbed it in Billy Bones BBQ rub which is...
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    Eyeball chili

    Not really a joke but just a good a place to post this. I snapped some pics of my chili cook using Tommy's World Class Chili tonight and my wife commented on this one, "Why is there a bloody eyeball in your chili?"
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    Smoked Zesty Dill Spears

    No Q-View, but I tossed some Vlassic Zesty Dill Spears on a piece of aluminum foil in the MES for a 1/2 hour or so the other night while smoking a chicken. I used mesquite wood for the smoke and they came out really tasty. I would suggest giving it a try for a surprising snack for your football...
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    Hey "Dude Abides"!

    Are you ordained too? http://www.dudeism.com/
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    Pulled pork hash

    So I had some left over pork from a butt I did for a co-worker yesterday, so I made my first batch of pulled pork hash. Nothing complicated, just some left over pork, frozen hash browns, diced onion, chili powder, garlic powder, ancho chili powder and black pepper. Fried it up nice and crisp and...
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    Smoked apple dessert idea

    Our company has an annual 12 days of Christmas food event where people can choose a day to bring in a treat to share with the entire company. We have about 120 people these days so it's getting a bit much to make the usual treats I made in the past. I was kicking around the idea of a smoked...
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    Weighing in on the new MES models

    I've used mine a few times now, the newer model I got at Bass Pro on Black Friday. I've noticed the temps are way off on my model over what the controller reads. It seems when the element is on and heating up, my remote probe in a potato on the middle of the top rack reads 50 degrees higher than...
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    New engineering changes in my latest MES

    So I got my MES from Bass Pro Shops today, set it up tonight and began seasoning it. I noticed that the chip feed tube is now only 1/2 as long as it was before and the chip tray is 1/2 as small. They welded a small plate from the handle side inwards to keep the chip load small. Wonder why they...
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    Smoking wood in Oakland County, MI

    This past week I scored two large bundles of white and red oak from a fellow on Craigslist. He's a nice guy, laid off at the moment, and has a ton of wood for sale at a cheap price. Cherry, apple, oak, etc... nice seasoned chunks. If this ad expires, just search smoking wood in the Detroit CL...
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    First turkey breast smoke attempt

    Picked up this breast section today, a bit pricey, but it's fresh and never frozen they say. Not having smoked a turkey breast before, I was looking for some feedback on favorite wood flavors, seasonings, etc... I am going to brine it Friday night until Sunday morning. Then I plan to cook it as...
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    Quick and easy smoked snack

    I'm having some friends over Saturday night for some pinball, beer, hockey game and Guitar Hero. Of course, at the last minute, they all start asking what sort of smoked treat I'm going to have. I hadn't really planned on smoking anything, just offering up some fresh battered and fried popcorn...
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    Black Friday deals

    I happened across this ad online while scoping out the upcoming madness that is Black Friday. Not a bad price though I imagine it was probably one of the earlier models. This got me to thinking perhaps I should keep an eye out for some BF deals on grilling and smoking equipment this year. Black...
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    Pinball porkalooza

    One of my pinball buddies is having his 7th annual Pinballpalooza party at his house tomorrow in West Michigan, so I decided to make pulled pork for 100+. Should be a good time! The two butts on the left I managed to score for $.99/lb at a local Mexican grocer but they would only sell me two the...
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    Crosscut Short Ribs

    Picked some beef short ribs from Sam's Club yesterday and am getting ready to smoke them. Kind of weird how they cut them across the bones instead of with the bone. I was going to do them on my ECB but my charcoal got soaked from rain and I just discovered this as I lifted the bag, only to have...
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