The Official Gratuitous Grilling/BBQ/Cooking Thread

[Jim at Gentex]

Well I finally got around to clearing out all of the junk under my back deck to make room for that pellet smoker I have been thinking about buying.

I'm thinking of a lower end one since it is my first time buying and I'm not sure how much we will use it.
This Pit Boss 820 seems to fit the bill, the price is reasonable @ $338 USD, and I can pick it up at my local Lowe's today if I want it.

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My Mrs. already agreed...so what am I waiting for???  

[ghuns]

Snowstorm? It's too cold? It's winter? What's your excuse for neglecting your grill?

Hell, even my wife was outside this morning throwing meats on the grill...

[Smit]

^^^^Nice. She's definitely a keeper!^^^^

[Hardmill]

Snowstorm? It's too cold? It's winter? What's your excuse for neglecting your grill?

Hell, even my wife was outside this morning throwing meats on the grill...

You let your wife touch yer smoker ?? 








PEACE

[Hardmill]

Well I finally got around to clearing out all of the junk under my back deck to make room for that pellet smoker I have been thinking about buying.

I'm thinking of a lower end one since it is my first time buying and I'm not sure how much we will use it.
This Pit Boss 820 seems to fit the bill, the price is reasonable @ $338 USD, and I can pick it up at my local Lowe's today if I want it.


My Mrs. already agreed...so what am I waiting for??? 

Thats a good starter

Im more than happy with my GMG-Jim Bowie








PEACE

[ghuns]

You let your wife touch yer smoker ?? 

It has wifi.

I'm driving it. She's just putting the meat on and taking it off when I tell her to.








PEACE

[Hardmill]

Wifey just bought me a flattop griddle

So im good to go
Flattop, Smoker and a propane bbq to sear and make burgers

Ill most likely be adding another smoker soon also
Id like to get one and add a few racks just to make jerky






PEACE

[Smit]

Last weekend I found the biggest corned beef briskets I've ever seen on sale at Costco. They were between 6 and 8 pounds.

Smoked corned beef brisket is tied with a very few other things (like beef ribs) as my absolute favorite thing from a smoker so I bought a big one to put in my freezer until the weather warms up a bit.

I don't think my old style barrel smoker would as well in extreme cold like Greg's new fangled smoking machine does so that's something I'm looking forward to...a lot.

[ghuns]

She done good.

Mississippi Pot Roast...



Chili meat...



Smoked around 225 until IT was 150-160. Put MPR in pan following the Hey Grill Hey recipe. The one for chili went in a pan for a beer bath. Cooked until IT hit 200ish.

At this point, I was home and neither pulled apart as easily as I thought they should. Neither was submerged in the liquid ingredients so I flipped the meat over in each pan. The side that had been down in the juices pulled apart easily. I gave them another hour after flipping and they were perfect.

The MPR recipe she followed mentions adding water to cut down on the saltiness of the pepper juice. She didn't, but we both agreed that next time we will.

[Hardmill]

She done good.

Smoked around 225 until IT was 150-160. Put MPR in pan following the Hey Grill Hey recipe. The one for chili went in a pan for a beer bath. Cooked until IT hit 200ish.

At this point, I was home and neither pulled apart as easily as I thought they should. Neither was submerged in the liquid ingredients so I flipped the meat over in each pan. The side that had been down in the juices pulled apart easily. I gave them another hour after flipping and they were perfect.

The MPR recipe she followed mentions adding water to cut down on the saltiness of the pepper juice. She didn't, but we both agreed that next time we will.

This is on my to do list.
Actually has been for about a yr 










PEACE

[Leehound]

She done good.

Mississippi Pot Roast...


Smoked around 225 until IT was 150-160. Put MPR in pan following the Hey Grill Hey recipe. The one for chili went in a pan for a beer bath. Cooked until IT hit 200ish.

At this point, I was home and neither pulled apart as easily as I thought they should. Neither was submerged in the liquid ingredients so I flipped the meat over in each pan. The side that had been down in the juices pulled apart easily. I gave them another hour after flipping and they were perfect.

The MPR recipe she followed mentions adding water to cut down on the saltiness of the pepper juice. She didn't, but we both agreed that next time we will.

I did the Mississippi Pot Roast this weekend. I used the whole pepperoncini's and added carrots and potatoes the last 2 hours of the cook. A really great flavor, my wife loved as well. I will be doing this again!

Thanks Ghuns.

[ghuns]

A friend was moving Saturday. I'm old enough that my back hurts just thinking about helping. So I cooked him some lunch...



The 2nd butt was for a Saturday night taco/nacho bar. A bunch of us rented the little 4 lane bowling alley that's in the basement of our local American Legion building. You get the place all to yourselves for 3 hours for $35, plus $3 per person, per game. And you can bring your own food and booze. Makes for a good time.

Sunday whipped up some wings for a buddy's Daytona 500 party...

[ghuns]

Did another bowling night on Friday. My peeps have come to expect BBQing greatness from me but I get bored making the same things over and over.

We're slower than slow at work so I scoured the BBQ interwebz for something new to me and found this...

Smoked Chicken Lollipops Recipe

One look at Malcom and you know the dude can cook, and eat. There are tons of recipes out there, but I trust his more than most.

Prepping these things SUCKS. Took me an hour to do 24 of them. My knives are so sharp they'll cut you if you look at them wrong. But I quickly became convinced that chicken tendons are among the toughest materials on earth. What a PITA.

After getting them whipped into shape, I brushed them avocado oil and applied a generic rub that's first ingredient was brown sugar...



Then into foil pans with a stick of butter and onto the smoker...



After 90 minutes at 300, with a smoke tube full of apple pellets, they were dunked in warmed up BBQ sauce. I did half hot and half mild. Back on at 350 for about 20 minutes to set the sauce and they were done...



I'm not a big fan of chicken, other than wings. This was hands down the best chicken I've ever cooked. Skin was not at all rubbery, meat was smoky, moist, and tender. Between the brown sugar rub and sweet sauce they were really like candy.

[Incogneeto]

Did another bowling night on Friday. My peeps have come to expect BBQing greatness from me but I get bored making the same things over and over.

We're slower than slow at work so I scoured the BBQ interwebz for something new to me and found this...

Smoked Chicken Lollipops Recipe

One look at Malcom and you know the dude can cook, and eat. There are tons of recipes out there, but I trust his more than most.

Prepping these things SUCKS. Took me an hour to do 24 of them. My knives are so sharp they'll cut you if you look at them wrong. But I quickly became convinced that chicken tendons are among the toughest materials on earth. What a PITA.

After getting them whipped into shape, I brushed them avocado oil and applied a generic rub that's first ingredient was brown sugar...



Then into foil pans with a stick of butter and onto the smoker...



After 90 minutes at 300, with a smoke tube full of apple pellets, they were dunked in warmed up BBQ sauce. I did half hot and half mild. Back on at 350 for about 20 minutes to set the sauce and they were done...



I'm not a big fan of chicken, other than wings. This was hands down the best chicken I've ever cooked. Skin was not at all rubbery, meat was smoky, moist, and tender. Between the brown sugar rub and sweet sauce they were really like candy.

You need to change your screen name from "ghuns" to "Smokes".

[BrianP.]

Did another bowling night on Friday. My peeps have come to expect BBQing greatness from me ....

What about bowling greatness? Why no scores? Is the Mrs. kicking your butt?
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