First Cook On My New Old Country BBQ Over & Under

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dwhite1031

Smoke Blower
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Jul 5, 2015
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Midland, TX
The best wife ever got me an Old Country BBQ Over & Under smoker for my recent birthday. I have a Char-Broil vertical gasser I've done mods to to get to where I like it, but I've been wanting to move to a charcoal/wood burner  for a while. This past Sunday was my first cook on it, an 8 pound pork butt and two racks of spare ribs.  I had seasoned the O&U last weekend and had been chomping at the bit to cook on her.  I have to say I'm pretty proud of her and I've been struttin' around like a new rooster in the hen house all week.  I'll post a comprehensive review and details about her later, but this is all about the first cook.



Saturday night I trimmed the spare ribs to a St. Louis style cut and prepared the pork butt. Early Sunday morning I started two chimneys of Kingsford blue bag briquettes in the firebox to get her up to temp after I took the days menu out of my "Smokin' Meats Only" fridge and sat back with a hot cup of coffee.  She got to temp pretty quickly with the temperature outside at 38 degrees at 8:00 am. 


So I put a split of oak on the coals, put the ribs and pork butt on the bottom rack and stuck one of the meat probes from my Maverick ET-733 into the butt and the other clipped to the grate.


She held at 250-275 very well and I enjoyed tending the firebox as needed.  Added a split about every hour and a half. 



Here's some pics of the O&U and of the cook results:



The Char-Broil and the New Gal set up under the pergola.






Over & Under ready to cook












Love to hear that first sizzle when the pork hits the grate!









Pork butt went for 8-1/2 hours, bone pulled right out!






Pulled Pork sandwich anyone?






Ribs were tender and juicy, nice bit of bark, but next time I'll trim a bit more off the ends






I'm very pleased with the results of my first cook on my new Old Country BBQ Over & Under.


And since the food was gone pretty quick, I'd say it was a success! What do ya'll think?
 
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THANKS A LOT !!!!!! Skipped dinner last night due to a late lunch got up at 3:15AM to get a Butt started by 4:00 looked at your Pics and am now STARVING !!!!
 
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