Smoking a couple of butts today on the UDS.
Here are a couple of the usual suspcts . . . two bone-in pork shoulder roasts at around 5 lbs. each . . .
I'm trying out "R's Rub" (Thanks, Rich) As always seems the case the first time I make something, I didn't have exactly the right ingredients -- haven't got the Hungarian paprika yet, wife bought celery seed instead of celery powder, had to use coarse ground black pepper instead of cracked black pepper and had to supplement some of THAT with regular ground . . . well, you get the idea. Anyway it is still excellent! Tried some on my eggs yesterday at breakfast (couldn't wait) and it is really good.
Here's the butts rubbed and ready.
Got to try out my new seasoning shaker. That thing works great. Had a problem with rub getting clumped on before but the shaker works really nice.
Here they are wrapped for the fridge last night . . .
and on the smoker at about 6:15 am this morning.
Using Kingsford Comp charcoal with a few chunks of hickory. Took awhile to find the "sweet spot" with the Kingsford since it burns a little hottor and my drum has eight 3/4" holes for the exhaust but now with both caps on and the valve about 3/4 open it is holding at 239°.
Gonna be a beatiful sunny day here in Corning. Great day for smoking.
Dave
Here are a couple of the usual suspcts . . . two bone-in pork shoulder roasts at around 5 lbs. each . . .
I'm trying out "R's Rub" (Thanks, Rich) As always seems the case the first time I make something, I didn't have exactly the right ingredients -- haven't got the Hungarian paprika yet, wife bought celery seed instead of celery powder, had to use coarse ground black pepper instead of cracked black pepper and had to supplement some of THAT with regular ground . . . well, you get the idea. Anyway it is still excellent! Tried some on my eggs yesterday at breakfast (couldn't wait) and it is really good.
Here's the butts rubbed and ready.
Got to try out my new seasoning shaker. That thing works great. Had a problem with rub getting clumped on before but the shaker works really nice.
Here they are wrapped for the fridge last night . . .
and on the smoker at about 6:15 am this morning.
Using Kingsford Comp charcoal with a few chunks of hickory. Took awhile to find the "sweet spot" with the Kingsford since it burns a little hottor and my drum has eight 3/4" holes for the exhaust but now with both caps on and the valve about 3/4 open it is holding at 239°.
Gonna be a beatiful sunny day here in Corning. Great day for smoking.
Dave
