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The Smoky Okie way is the ONLY way. Sear it first, sealing in the juices and forming the Maillard reactions, and then low and slow. And yes, the smoke will still penetrate wonderfully!!!
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Tim has always been nothing but gracious and helpful in my numerous PMs to him. He is friendly and definately a wealth of knowledge. It's too bad that I'm so far away from him, I'd like to shake his hand.
Slice and vacpak. I don't freeze before closing, just make sure the bag has a reasonable amount of room to the meat. If the juice is sucked in to the overflow tray -- on my Foodsaver -- it still makes a seal. Boy is it good coming out!!!
There's a ton of them starting to ripen here. Great idea!!! Gimme some recipes!!!
It's getting down in to the fall temps now; only got in to the high 70's today. Still swimming in the pool tho...
Nice Job!!! I like SausageMaker. Got my grinder there. I use their Italian Sausage spice mix. I've been thinking about smoking some corned beef in to pastrami.
I trim.
Also, the last butts I did were cut in to halves thickness-wise. So I had 4 halves instead of two wholes. More bark and smoke penetration. Came out great. Only two of the halves have bone-in. But overall, an extremely successful experiment.
GOSM widebody gasser. It's the simplest route when learning, and won't hold you back when you get more advanced.
No matter which way you go, there's lots of expertise here to help.
I always soak my chunks for use in my GOSM. Half hour in a bucket of water. Any type of wood that I'm using.
250 is high in a GOSM, so plenty of opportunity for fire if other precautions are not used.
Be careful about trying to cover it up to keep the fire down, as opposed to soaking...
Basically what Richoso1 said.
Sweet Baby Ray's has a hot & spicy version. If you can't find that, you can make some by using standard Ray's and adding Tobasco Chipotle ("Smoked") to it. Mix well and I like to add a little water. This is pretty simple to do and you can vary the amount of kick to...
Figure out what you want to use to make heat: electric, sticks, charcoal, gas. Then go from there. You can make plenty of thin-blue smoke with any of the four. It's not the smoker, it's what you do with it.