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    Christmas rib roast: smoke or no smoke?

    I sure do miss my drum. In a failed negotiation tactic with my marital business partner, I had to give up the UDS when I bought the Recteq BFG. I'll probably never go back to charcoal...but the flavor can't be reproduced with pellet (in my opinion, that is).
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    Need Thermometer for My Cookers

    I'd second this. 4 channels that can be configured for several combinations of ambient and penetrations temp. Various wired probes available depending on your need. We have this and RFX but can't recommend RFX at this time. It is just too new, expensive, and needs time to work out some bugs...
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    Holiday gifts in the making

    Yum. How are you going to preserve? Wax, vacpack, etc?
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    RFX Probes. Losing signal and losing love

    Yea. That's what I meant by peach paper. I'm assuming it's the same thing. And I've tried it by itself, using Jeremy Yoder's technique of applying a coat of wagyu beef tallow to the inside before wrapping. But again, without the plastic, it just seems to lose too much moisture this way...
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    RFX Probes. Losing signal and losing love

    On brisket #3 with these new probes. Still trying (and failing) to find a way to use them the way we like to cook. At the advice of, I can't recall who, I just cooked the packer unwrapped all of the way to final temp. While I have done a few pork shoulders this way, I had never tried a...
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    RFX Probes. Losing signal and losing love

    I get that. I think the importance centers around a particular cooking style. And for the way I like to cook large cuts of meat, it is important to me. The combination of plastic wrap with an outer layer of foil creates a sealed structure that allows the cut to steam in its own moisture, with...
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    Any "foil boat" captains out there?

    Never tried it myself as I always wrap briskets in plastic then foil to finish. But as I understand, the biggest difference in the boat vs pan is that the boat is sort of bunched up around the profile of the beef. My guess is this keeps more liquid against more surface of the meat. I'm...
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    Looking for advice on a knife sharpener

    Just be aware that steels don't sharpen. Rather, they realign the burr on the edge. Sharpening reproduces the burr. This is important as at some point, the burr will be dulled to the point that a steel will no longer reproduce a sharp edge. At that point sharpening is required. But frequent...
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    Looking for advice on a knife sharpener

    I'm a big fan of the fixed angle sharpeners that have a flip option. They are a pain in the backside to use and don't work well on small knives. But they are way more accurate than I can reproduce by hand. They also usually come with a series of stones that allow you to really refine that...
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    SoFlaQuer’s Finishing Sauce

    Well that's a genius idea. I will definitely give that a shot.
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    RFX Probes. Losing signal and losing love

    Performed a few more tests over the holidays and confirmed that the RFX probes cannot be trusted inside/under of foil. Thick cookers with multiple layers of steel, it seems to penetrate fine. But foil (specifically aluminum foil) seems to be fatal. Such a shame. And I probably would not have...
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    Thanksgiving, Plan B

    Pretty good lemonade from lemons, right there. Prayers for the father in law's recovery.
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    RFX Probes. Losing signal and losing love

    I just assumed they couldn't afford cast iron Dutch oven hats, which should be harder to penetrate than thin aluminum.
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    RFX Probes. Losing signal and losing love

    Definitely under the foil. That was the whole reason for getting them. They were under the plastic wrap and the foil. The idea is to completely seal the wrap to allow the meat to steam without leaks. If I have to poke through the foil, I have literally no reason not to use our wired probes.
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    RFX Probes. Losing signal and losing love

    We are on about week 3 of using these RFX probes. They have done great with grilling chicken and steaks. Have cooked a couple turkeys and they handled those perfectly as well. But we had our first failure last night. The way I do briskets and pork shoulders is to smoke to about 165 degrees...
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