Two days of pork-n-stuff.

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pit 4 brains

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With the holiday yesterday and the day off today, it was time to fire up the smokers and get some things done. I started off by smoking up some CB and beef roasts I cured up last week. The CB is self explanatory and the beef roasts are for S.O.S. I'm looking forward to slicing the both of them. After those came out of the smoker it was on to dinner and bacon-wrapped tenderloin with peppers was the option. I should have used thinner bacon like before but it came out extremely moist, tender and delicious. After dinner I rubbed up a 9Lb butt and prepped the drum. I got the butt on this morning and drove it to 155 before foiling, then up to 205 for pulling. That came off and went into the cooler for a rest while I tossed up some slaw from scratch and some beans. The beans were canned but I heated up some of yesterdays leftover tenderloin's bacon and some pork pieces before tossing in the beans and giving them about 45 minutes of smoke. All in all a great two days on the patio and a fridge full of leftovers.

 






Thanksgiving hams are next on the to-do list.. 
 
Looks like a great couple of days off - that pork loin looks great 
 
Looks Awesome! I love to pack a freezer!

You said you cured the beef, any pics? or other info on that?
 
Looks Awesome! I love to pack a freezer!

You said you cured the beef, any pics? or other info on that?
Thanks! 

One was a bottom round and the other was either a bottom or tip. I pretty much used a brine I like for corned beef with 8tsp #1, 1/2 C sugar, 1/2 C Kosher salt and I left out the pickling spices. For the CB, I used Pops brine with the 1/2 cup salt option and a little extra brown sugar. I drizzled in a little pure desert honey just for good measure but I'm not sure if it'll have any effect.

Both meats brined for 7 days, fresh water soaked for 20 min twice, fan-dried in the fridge then onto some cold smoke between 95 and 135 degrees. I loaned my AMZNPS to a buddy so I had to run propane to burn some cherry and apple chunks. After about three hoours of good smoke I closed the door and brought the smoker up to about 230 or so and ran the CB to 150 and then the beef to 145. Pulled, wrapped and refrigerated.. I'll probably slice it during Thursday football.

I didn't take any other photos of the curing or smoking of the CB or beef.
 
Thanks!!!

I've been wanting to do some more pastrami, I might try one with spices and one without, like you did, just to see, Thanks for the idea!!!
 
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You might be fullof por but now your freezer is full of pork to.
 
Well I Finally got a chance to bring out the slicer and get some things done. I sliced up one of the CB's first. I like to take mine to the 160-165 mark for the simple fact that when I pull out the slicer., the kids gather around like seagulls to a fishing boat. One CB went into the fridge for breakfasts and one got sliced up and frozen. I then moved to the beef roasts and sliced them just thick enough for S.O.S. We had a great meal of that and the kids liked it so that's always a bonus. 


 
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