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  1. SmokinAl

    Judy’s focaccia art

    Judy & I love focaccia bread & she has been wanting to do a focaccia art bread. So on to Pinterest & here we go. She looked at a bunch of photo’s & we ended up with her own design. She set it up on a tray to get an idea of what she wanted. Then she just transferred it to the dough & added...
  2. SmokinAl

    Counter top knife sharpener

    I have a Chefs Choice professional model 130 knife sharpener. I paid about $150 for it & will sell it for $50 + shipping. Of course if you live nearby you can come pick it up, and forget about the shipping. Al
  3. SmokinAl

    Judy’s Ear

    OK, so my wife Judy bakes constantly. We have more flour in the freezer than we do meat! Anyhow she says that the Ear on rustic sourdough bread means that it had a perfect rise (correct her if she is wrong). To me it just looks cool & when you slice it, you have a handle! Here is a loaf she just...
  4. SmokinAl

    Johnny Trigg style ribs on the RT

    So I was looking at the RT website the other day & found a Johnny Trigg rib recipe video. WFF had a sale a month or so ago & had STL’s for $1.98 lb. So I bought a few. Pulled one out of the freezer Sunday AM, and defrosted it in water. Here is how it started! I had a lot of trimming to do. Used...
  5. SmokinAl

    Recteq 1250 one year review

    Well I can’t believe it but it’s been over a year since I went the pellet route. I’ve done about 30-40 cooks on the 1250 & for the most part I’m very happy with it. A few things I learned were: 1 - don’t use recteq ultimate blend pellets, they don’t give much flavor or smoke. I found that I like...
  6. SmokinAl

    R/T 1250 rack of lamb, reverse sear

    So we were looking thru the freezer a couple of days ago & found a WFF Frenched rack of lamb. I guess I must have bought it a couple of years ago and just forgot about it. So I found this marinade recipe: I mixed it up, and spread it all over the lamb. (I decided not to do any trimming, even...
  7. SmokinAl

    ABT’S , I’ve never seen them done this way before

    So the neighbors were coming over for Memorial Day & requested ABT’S. So I wanted to try something new that just came to me while I was walking early in the morning. I started by carving out a piece so the jap looked like a canoe. The reason I did it this way was because the japs were too big to...
  8. SmokinAl

    Recteq 1250 WiFi problem

    OK, I know this has happened to at least one of you guys. My 1250 has been working flawlessly for about 1 year. Then last weekend, no WiFi connection. I tried all the things that they said to do & finally just talked to a tech guy. He told me that the problem was on my end. We were on the phone...
  9. SmokinAl

    Judy was bored today!

    When Judy gets bored she either bakes or plays games on her iPad. Well today she baked. Bagels, buns, & blueberry hand pockets. I love it when she gets bored! :emoji_sunglasses: I’m a lucky guy!! Al
  10. SmokinAl

    A5 Waygu ribeye

    So my new snowbird neighbor across the street from me owns a high end meat market in Ontario. We have become pretty good friends & I taught him how to make lox, & pastrami. So when he came down he brought a huge cooler of meat from his shop, and last night he had us over for a few drinks and a...
  11. SmokinAl

    Marinate, smoke, & Sous vide DINOS

    I lucked out & got another pack of Dino’s from you know who! The last ones I got were fantastic, but I wanted to try something different this time. Here is the rack. I mixed up a marinade with the usual players. Then into vacuum marinators I had to cut the rack in half to get them to fit...
  12. SmokinAl

    My turn at BEEF Bacon!

    Well thanks to our old friend Robert @tx smoker I have a nice piece of beef belly, CPB of course. I cut the piece in half & used http://diggingdogfarm.com/page2.html bacon calculator for the cure. This is how it came. Out of the plastic. Cut it in half, and into the bags with the cure for...
  13. SmokinAl

    Pichana roast on the Rectec

    Been a bunch of pichana threads lately, so here is my shot at it. Started out with a nice roast. Didn’t need much trimming on the fat side, but had a big piece of silver skin on the meat side. That is about all the trimming needed. I marinated it overnight under vacuum. Then I mixed up a...
  14. SmokinAl

    Oklahoma onion smash burgers ala @indaswamp

    After seeing all the smash burgers on here, we had to do the onion one Keith did. Sorry not many photo’s. Judy wanted to make them, so she decided to just make one big one for both of us to share. Had some ground brisket in the freezer, so here we go. We didn’t have a big press, so we...
  15. SmokinAl

    Pork ribeye roast on the rotisserie

    I bought a couple of these roasts when I saw them. Never had this cut before, and it was real cheap. Thawed one out, brined it overnight in the fridge, then injected it with a bit of Tony C’s butter/jalapeño marinade. Here is what I started with. I wanted it to be a more round uniform shape...
  16. SmokinAl

    Today is a good day !!!

    About 7 years ago I got the cancer diagnosis. The Dr. Told me no worries, if you have to have cancer you have a good one. You’re not going to die this year. Anyhow after 3 years of chemo, I’m in remission & have been for a couple of years. But the chemo destroyed my kidneys. If you know about...
  17. SmokinAl

    Dino bones for our Grandson

    I have had a rack of dino’s that was gifted to me a while back. Thanks Robert, aka @tx smoker I was waiting for something special, and our Grandson drove up from Delray Beach, to spend the weekend. Perfect time to get these bad boy‘s out. I did a bit of trimming to clean them up a bit, then...
  18. SmokinAl

    A question for REC TEC owners

    Has anyone used a RT 1250 for cold smoking bacon? I was thinking that if you just put the tube in the belly of the smoker it would be perfect. However, I’m wondering if there would be enough air circulation to draw the smoke out the stack. Interested in hearing from someone who has attempted...
  19. SmokinAl

    Rec Tec extreme smoke setting

    I would like to try an overnight butt smoke on my new RT 1250. I would like to use the extreme smoke setting all night long, with no smoke tube or anything else. I know that the temp will be around 180, and it will never get to 140 in 4 hours. So I’m going to inject it with a brine that has some...
  20. SmokinAl

    You won’t believe what I got for $25

    Yep, I was looking on our neighborhood site & there was this for $25. I immediately texted them that I will buy it & mark it sold. They even brought it to our house. I plugged it in & it was making some noises, so I know what to do. Did this a few times with our other KA. You just take it apart...
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