Recent content by metalman1976

I've found the 1% works good for my preference, any lower would be bland and any higher tastes like a salt lick. I'm just gathering info because moderators on another forum are telling people the lowest limit you can safely go is 1.5% salt and I'm trying to shut that stupidity down...

I switched over from wet cure to dry cure long time ago and never looked back. My question is how low of a salt level can you go, if any salt at all, with cure #1. I typically use 1 tsp cure #1, 1 tbsp Mortons coarse kosher salt and 2 tbsp brown sugar per 5 lb pork belly . I believe it's...

Would a boneless leg of lamb be equivalent to the shoulder??? i just picked up a 6.5lb with a nice fat cap

Thanks for kudos guys!!! Very delicious. Now to clean the kitchen.....

BTW looking very good!!!

My brother lives in Chugiak and had a box similar to yours, used a rubber propane hose to the burner and eventually the oil from the salmon broke down the hose and he lost his smoke box and at least 20lbs of salmon, he rebuilt and has a stainless gas line to the burner now, just heads up :-)

Knife is razor sharp but they just fell apart.. I now have pulled pork baby back ribs... Dinner time :-)

All done, let them rest for few and getting my grub on... b-one Google Andrew Zimmern pineapple glazed baby back ribs, I just tweaked the recipe to my liking :-)

Almost ready to throw some pineapple glaze on 

Looking good!!! Something to try next time is save the dripping, chill and skim fat off the top and use the drippings in next batch of beans, I do it all the time when I smoke a pork butt and make some black beans, don't add any salt  to the beans until you've tasted them after adding the...

Last year I ran across Chef Andrew Zimmern's recipe for pineapple glazed baby back ribs - Asian fusion flavor, with some experimenting I tweaked it to my liking and smoking them up right now, 60-90 min left. I use a hard lump coal and a short initial smoke with apple or cherry wood, if you add...

I bought a CharGriller side by side last year to get a feel for it, I love the style of smoker but hated the inefficiency and how much fuel I had to throw at it to work, I couldn't leave more than 5 min before having to check the temp in the smoke box, Bought a Yoder Cheyenne because I don't do...

4 1/2 hrs in, getting ready to rotate it so the left side gets some heat and more smoke, the drip pan underneath is causing an up draft so the right side of the butt is getting more heat and smoke, leaving the drip pan out next time.

Check with stores that sell wood burning stoves, they have gasket making material and sealing compounds that are designed for higher temps than the grill can achieve. You can check these places out also:  http://www.bbqgaskets.com/   http://www.bbqsmokermods.com/ http://www.stovegaskets.com/...

2 smokers and 3 grills Yoder Cheyenne smoker, Brinkman upright smoker, Weber Genesis grill,Weber go anywhere gas grill and a large 3 section island grill from Costco. I just gave my CharGriller side by side away that I had for maybe a year, don't need it with the Yoder