What's cooking today?

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mike w

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Oct 13, 2014
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Virginia
I've got brisket on since 0400 and some sausage chubs for breakfast. Figured I might get to see the meteor shower but there was too much cloud cover.
Taking advantage of the morning to cold smoke my belly bacon again. I got 7.5 hours of smoke yesterday. After a rest in the fridge overnight ive got them on some hickory pellets.

So far I am REALLY liking the cold smoking. It is alot easier and much less fuel intensive. I'm keeping notes for the next batch.

Despite the fircast saying its supposed to be a nice day I've got my fingers crossed for no rain. Lots of grey clouds just rolled in
 
Mike how are you liking your new toy?

Bit like a kid on Christmas Day!!!

Brisket looks good so far, are you going to wrap it or leave it as it is?
 
I'm really loving it! I told my wife I need to make a trip to costco to buy a few kilos of cheese tomorrow haha.

The brisket stalled at 140 IT about an hour ago. I have 6 hours of cooking time left so I'm going to foil it now. I don't want to chance the stall taking 5 hours to get past since I have a water pan in there.

This brisket is 9lbs and I injected it with the smoked rib bone broth I made last week. Simple rub of black pepper,golden caster sugar, cayenne pepper, garlic powder, ginger, and chili powder (american version) and some herbs de provence. I salted it two days ago and its been resting in the fridge since then.


Ideally it hits 203F by 2pm and I can put it in a faux cambro for two hours to rest before slicing and serving.
 
Looking great so far Mike 
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Finished product 11 hours at 225F smoked with hickory and 1 hour rest in the faux cambro.
Nice smoke ring sorry I don't have a sliced picture it went quickly. Served with salt roasted potatoes and salad.
I made a tomato based BBQ sauce for it that was tangy and sweet.

Since I forgot to put the pork butt on this morning ive got about 3 kg to grind into sausage. Already have pulled pork in the freezer so I'm going to make a longuisa with cure #1 and hot smoke it. I don't have any casings to I'm going to form 1lb chubs with some cling film. That's tomorrows project.
 
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