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    Needing a charcoal grill in addition to my wonderful OK Joe Highland

    Hello fellow folks of the smoke! With help here I've become a passable smoker of wonderful meats such as pork loin, butts, and beef roasts. I could NOT have done what I've done without your all's help and I've recommended this fine forum to others often. I've heavily modified my affordable OK...
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    Found baby back ribs for $1.50 a pound at Kroger

    Bought 5 racks, as their regular cost was $3.49 to $3.99. Planning my first rib smoke for two racks on Sunday when the weather is supposed to cooperate. I expect I'll try the 3-2-1 method I read so much about, but will review things before beginning. I'll be using wood only i my Highland offset...
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    Thickening my favorite vinegar mop/dip recipe?

    Here's my long liked recipe. I use for dipping and injecting, and mopping some too. Almost water thin. But I want it to be a little thicker so it stays on the meat better when at the table. I don't want to change the flavor except maybe to make it a little hotter. Is there an ingredient I can...
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    May have to finish smoke in oven. Wrap or not? Want bark.

    I offered to my adult son that I was smoking a butt today and that if he'd like one smoked for himself to grab a nice one at Kroger on sale. "Sure Pop Thanks!" What he brought was an 11 pound big fella. Last night he said he was having company at 6:30 today (day of smoke) and hoped his would be...
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    Chicken or pork loin on upper level when smoking? Does it matter?

    Saturday I will be doing a pork loin again and some split chicken breasts at the same time. I have a set up in my OK Joe Highland offset that let's me have something smoking about 4 1/2 inches directly above the main cook grids (just a spare grid supported by two wrapped fire bricks on...
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    Searching for a simple smoked loin recipe. Not stuffed

    Can someone here please point me to a simple non-stuffed, non-BBQ flavored pork loin recipe for a first time loin smoke morning this weekend? Here's what's going on: On the spur of the moment yesterday after a look at the weather forecast I took a full loin (bought on sale at Kroger for $1.39...
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    So I'd like a grill as a sister to my smoker. Style/brand thoughts please?

    I won't use my OK Joe Highland as a grill because I consider it a dedicated smoker. I have now a couple of the steel smoker grill type cookers bought at Kroger's. They have the slide out ash tray, coated iron grids that are not adjustable for height from the coals and a vent at each end. I...
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    Had Kroger slice 99 cent/Lb butt into pork steaks for Monroe County BBQ

    Monroe County KY is two counties over. I've read a few articles on their regional specialty grilled/smoked pork steak with spicy hot vinegar-based moppings and dips. But I've not attempted to make them myself. I have a nice vinegar dip/mop at the ready, but the cooking method I've read about...
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    Had a mishap yesterday-my fault though. Fire on top of FB

    Yesterday I smoked a 6.5 pound butt. Turned out great, with a wonderful bark and slide-the-bone-out tender after 8 hours on my Highland at between 225 and 250, bringing it to an IT of 205. Things were going well and at 10:30 in the morning I came in to enjoy a late breakfast with my wife. Kept...
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    Blackberry BBQ sauce thoughts please?

    Wife and I have a very prolific blackberry vine (tame thornless) in our yard. Have a couple gallons frozen berries. Never realized there's a BBQ sauce use for the berries. Thoughts on which meats are best with blackberry BBQ sauce? Hate to fight to remove seeds, which several recipes I've read...
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    What did I do wrong? Tough sirloin tip roast. Had to oven finish.

    Trying out a delicious new rub shared with me by a friend here the other day, I smoked a 3 pound sirloin tip roast for almost three hours. OK Joe Highland offset smoker. The cook chamber temp stayed between 225 and 275 the entire time. Checked internal temp with digital thermometer and pulled...
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    Rival vintage model 1101 meat slicer thoughts please?

    There seem to be plenty of these vintage Rival 1101 meat slicers for sale online on auction sites. Made mostly of metal, they look like the home slicers I remember seeing on folks kitchen counters back in the 60's and 70's. If someone here has this specific metal Rival 1101 slicer or a close...
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    Boneless beef eye of round?

    On 2 day sale locally for $2.99 a pound. Not familiar with this cut, "boneless eye of round". A good cut for smoking? Good for thin slicing into sandwich meats? What to look for in one please? Thank you. Don
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    Increasing stack draw with an airfoil top cover?

    I think I read about someone doing this somewhere at the beginning of my smoking journey. But I can't find it. Maybe a false memory? Anyway, think about this please. The shower curtain billows inward when the shower head is shooting out water. Years ago I learned this was because fast moving...
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    Weak moment. Bought bottom round roast on sale. Thoughts please?

    The nearest Kroger's is a big part of my casual daily venture into society always looking to snag a bargain for Penny and me. Today I found a 3 1/4 pound boneless angus beef bottom round roast on Manager's Special markdown so I bought it. Nice and red, and of course pretty lean. Have gone...
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    I've decided to stop trying to keep my OK Joe firebox painted

    I've never been able to keep the firebox on my OK Joe Highland nicely painted. The factory paint crinkled and peeled off most everywhere on the top half, and many places on the bottom with the first burn to season my smoker. I wire brushed the areas, used denatured alcohol to degrease it, and...
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    Fess up folks. Who besides me sniffs the smoke from the stack?

    Yesterday during my ill fated, aborted chuck roast smoke (another story) I caught myself several times sniffing an up close whiff of the sweet sweet hickory smoke mixed with meat and spices wafting from the stack of my OK Joe Highland. Just a careful short whiff. Mercy it smelled so good. Almost...
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    OK to rub and refrigerate a roast for 20 hours in prep for smoke?

    Starting to feel overwhelmed with the food safety issues I've learned on my smoking journey. Am I OK rubbing and wrapping a beef roast kept in my frige 20 or so hours in advance? Trimmed fat away, applied EVOO, put rub in between the sections and over surface, then wrapped in plastic wrap and...
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    Favor please. measurement of FB to CC opening with a commercial tune plate in place

    I fabbed my own reducer plate to lessen the opening between the FB and cook chamber on my OK Joe Highland and direct smoke under the tuning plates. Had to guess the amount to reduce and went with about 1/2 the factory opening. I judged by studying other folks photographs. Sometimes I would like...
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    First Canadian rubbed and trussed chuck roast, with potato halves going..

    For want and lack of a nice brisket to smoke I instead chose a nice marbled chuck roast at Kroger's on sale for $2.99 a pound. Homemade Canadian rub into an EVOO binder last night with a plastic wrap. Tried my first trussing with real "butcher's string" this morning after watching a Youtube...
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