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I pulled the beef roast at 133, but didn't take another reading after resting. I was using my phone for those pics, and the color is a bit off, it was a nice pink medium rare in the center.
I did see that ham on the newsletter, it looked awesome!
It took a little over 3 hours to get the breasts up to temp, but I think they were still a bit frozen in the middle when I put them on, otherwise they would have been done quicker, also if I had smoked them at a higher temp they would...
Everything turned out great!
The bottom round roast was rubbed with montreal steak seasoning, and salt & pepper. Everything was smoked with hickory and cherry, and a small bit of oak.
Didn't get any pics of the sliced turkey breasts, as they were for someone else, but they turned out...
Looks great, I plan on smoking a few boneless turkey breasts tomorrow evening on my wrangler. I cook my chickens spachcocked as well, they cook faster thay way and turn out great!
Very impressive! Do you build smokers for others? I'd love to have a small reverse flow, something about the size of a Lang 48 and you are not far from Charlotte.
Also if you keep your next log on top of the firebox to heat up, it will ignite faster and you will have less white smoke. It just takes practice to get a good clean fire. There isn't much benefit to smoking chicken at a lower temp, plus a higer temp yields crispy skin.
I'm really surprised to hear that it's too smokey, I use the Old Country Wranger and I find that most of the time the stuff I cook isn't smokey enough for me. You could always bump up the heat so it cooks quicker and isn't in the smoke as long. Also make sure you are burning a clean fire with...
That's the cover I'm using on my Wrangler and it's a bit big on it, so it should fit the Pecos just fine. It's well made, but not real heavy duty, but for $20 you really can't beat it.
Just buy a sheet of expanded metal from home depot and cut then bend it. Here is a step by step on how to do it. You won't need much in the way of tools to do this.
http://www.smokingmeatforums.com/t/89796/i-call-it-the-20-20-charcoal-basket
I use a basket, but I normally can't get my temps to stay below 275, but now that it's getting colder out it should be easier. Not sure that a basket would help you much though, but it can't hurt to try.
Fruit woods give a pretty light smoke flavor, and you aren't likely to oversmoke your meat... if you feel like you might be oversmoking it, just wrap the food in foil, or switch back to charcoal for fuel.
That's interesting, I like the mods you did. I just use wood splits as fuel and only use charcoal to get the splits ignited, but it does require a fair amount of babysitting, however it looks like you have it figured out pretty good by using mostly charcoal.
Nice looking brisket, and a great smoke ring too! Is that the old country wrangler? What wood did you use? I smoked my first brisket on my wrangler this weekend and it turned out pretty good, but mine was also a tad dry. I may wrap it with some liquid next time.
I started the pit with a half chimney of charcoal, just to get the splits burning, then it was wood all the way. It turned out pretty good, not as tender as I was hoping for but the flavor was good. The temps ran a bit higher than I would have liked, but overall I'm happy for my first brisket.
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