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  1. kheper

    First Butt/Smoke - Wood catching on fire - Please help

    This thread is turning into a real dissertation on chips. My experiences with chips follows. In a smoker with a propane burner as the heat source, the chips when soaked and placed directly on the lava rocks in small pile with the valve on its lowest setting, the chips usually do not burn up...
  2. kheper

    First Butt/Smoke - Wood catching on fire - Please help

    You need to soak the chips. It is only the moisture which keeps them from combusting. Chunks burn more consistently and more slowly than chips. You may want to try them.
  3. kheper

    Spare ribs and Texas pit sauce

    I just put the ribs on to the terra cotta smoker. The ribs were rubbed with salt and dark brown sugar. They should be done in 6 - 7 hours. The recipe for the sauce follows. Texas pit sauce: 10 oz. ketchup 1/4 cup worchestershire sauce 1/4 cup fresh lemon juice 1/4 cup dark brown sugar 1 1/2 - 3...
  4. kheper

    Alton Brown's Smoker?

    My experiences with the terra cotta smoker have been unfortunately mixed. The dimensions of the body and lid of my smoker are as follows: Body: 15 1/2" height Outer Diameter (top) = 18 1/4" Inner Diameter (top) = 17" (There is a ledge around the inside running at about 16" in...
  5. kheper

    Holy crap these are HUGE

    Those back ribs look almost like the ones I have carved from whole loins. I think there is another section of meat, covering part of the bottom and keeping the ribs unexposed, which your butcher has cut off. I have never seen commercially butchered back ribs with that much meat. Mine weigh in at...
  6. kheper

    Smoked chicken, cheese and sauce

    Taking a cue from some of the posts in this forum where meat and cheese were combined and smoked, usually in a roulade, I decided to stuff parts of a chicken with cheddar cheese and smoke it. I split a fryer in half, cut a horizontal slit from the front of each breast side backwards, enlarged...
  7. kheper

    Cattlemen's Classic BBQ Sauce Question

    Heh. This is my recipe. It seems to have propagated quickly. Grandma's Old Fashion Molasses Yellow Label is what I use. I think corn syrup is critical to this sauce. Brown sugar will screw up the taste and color. You could try 3 TBL white sugar and 2 TBL molasses. Corn syrup is a good...
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