rainy day first butt - w/ Qview

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phishy

Newbie
Original poster
Oct 2, 2013
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Green Bay,WI
Named my UDS AquaLung.....and it was my first cook w/ it, but i was only slightly apprehensive, 

little Caribbean flair for the Pre cook rubby-dub-dubby...9.5 lbs


got the fire basket  ready the night before, minion method, nice little score on an enamel sauce pan i found in an old dump site on a homestead farm, cut off the rusted bottom WALLA!!


awake at 4AM.....smokers ready by 430AM-ish


after a little more sleep, getting the slaw ready, wisconsin-ized it, maple syrup and  craisins, red wine vinegar, not that mayo stuff so popular around here, hand cut slaw


still holding around 1030AM, not much fussing, cracked the valve down to 3/4 at start and opened it to full at 1030AM


Rain at 130PM  see the blob of yellow on the south side of Green Bay....that's where i am located


more rain behind it too


raining but  AquaLung is still hold fine...nice thin blue smoke from a nice blue smoker


rest and ready to serve, bone pulled out just fine



YUM!!




little sammy w/ homemade calico beans and bread & butter pickles from the garden


I need a new thermometer, if it wasn't for the poke test i would have seriously over cooked this thing, it bottomed out at 160 and wouldn't budge, so i poked it when i thought it should be done around 630PM and it was like budd-aah, little more done than i wanted, but the guests we had didn't know the difference, everyone was fat and sassy at the end of the evening...

made some ABT's, but the camera never made it in time, they disappeared immediately, there were 24 and only 6 people .....umm yea they were that good  
 
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Awesome. The uds cooks like no other smoker.
 
Can you explain that "minion method" for me. I have noticed several people mention that and am interested in knowing more about that.
 
 
Can you explain that "minion method" for me. I have noticed several people mention that and am interested in knowing more about that.

set the fire of your basket like the pic...then i take my chimney and add enough charcaol that would fill my little pan, i think that was around 15 briquettes??  light the chimney with paper and when the coals turn white, dump them into the bottomless pan, pull the pan out...this way hot coals are he center of you fuel , put bsket in the UDS (Smoker) keep the valves open til it hitsthe temp you want, then shut her down to hold the temp.  this way the fuel burns long period of time, i smoked for 14 hrs on less than 10 lbs of charcoal and about 2 lbs of apple chunks, in the end i still had unspent fuel.

SotterMago.....Ditto, not many 'sonsinites, not that we don't know how, but we ain't exactly the culinary center of the bbq world ... I fish out of 'gomer once in a while...mostly kewaunee since it is closer to me...may have to hook up some day.
 
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