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  1. grillathrilla

    QView - Yummy - did a second pulled pork in my MES40

    Haven't done a pork shoulder in about a year or so!  Raw material was a 13 pound package of Swift's boneless pork shoulder (I like Swift's meat products.)  13 pounds @ 90 minutes a pound = about 19.5 hours so the plan was to start smoking about 3 PM to finish late morning on day two.  Start the...
  2. grillathrilla

    MES40 - Boneless pork shoulder - how much smoke? Other tips?

    I am completely in love with my MES40 - the last brisket and babybacks I smoked were totally amazing.  Better than 90% of commercial BBQ I've had. I'm trying my first pork shoulder for pulled pork - bought my very first pork shoulder at Costco, 13 pound boneless.  I was a little surprised to...
  3. grillathrilla

    First try with baby backs in our new MES40. Okay results. Qview

    I chose what I thought was were tender racks - they both easily passed the "limp" test and the color looked good. I followed Jeff's 2-2-1 method, two hours on the rack, two hours in foil with apple juice, and one hour back on the rack with no foil (at 225*, top two racks in the MES40.) I used...
  4. grillathrilla

    First use of our new MES 40 - did a brisket. Good, but not great

    Hi everybody. I made an intro in the Roll Call board, so you can check that out if you are curious about me and how I came across the MES 40.  Anyway... After seasoning the smoker a couple of days ago, today was going to be the big day of smoking my first brisket.  I did lots and lots of forum...
  5. grillathrilla

    Big howdy from the Texas Hill Country

    For those not familiar with Texas (there must be two or three of you out there), the Texas Hill country begins roughly immediately west of Austin and extends west about 150 miles.  We're about 80 miles NW of San Antonio at 2200 feet elevation near Kerrville and have a small ranch where we raise...
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