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Hey there...long time member who hasn't posted in over a decade...lol. I've still been cranking butts and ribs out of my trusty old MES and occasionally my WSM. The other day I got the urge to smoke some beef for Christmas eve and decided on this 5lb Prime grade ribeye roast I found at my local...

Greetings! It's been a while since I've been around here...but today I decided to try one of the recipes from the recent newsletter. I smoked two pork butts on the 18.5 WSM I picked up used for $40 a while back. I mixed some of the pulled pork with more rub, diced jalapeños, crushed pineapple...

This is my first batch of cheese this fall/winter. I had quite a stockpile in the fridge from spring but used the last of it about a month ago. I like my AMNPS but have never had good luck keeping it lit. It seems I have to take the torch to it 3 or 4 times just to get through a 3 hour cheese...

Been awhile since I've posted here. Been busy with life and my two young sons. I've been smoking plenty of cheese, ribs, chickens, an so forth in the MES and occasionally the New Braunfels offset but I've been wanting an easy to use charcoal smoker for those times when I just want to do a couple...

The local market had an insane deal on whole pork loins but I was out of room in my deep freeze. Decided to make room by throwing this 12lb bird in the MES. Just your run of the mill Jeannie-O I injected with creole butter and coated with creole seasoning. Smoking with a mix of hickory, apple...

Haven't smoked anything for a couple months and it's time to replenish the pulled pork in the freezer. I'm feeling extremely lazy....well tired is more like it....my wife and I brought home son number two from the hospital Monday after spending a week with him in the NICU. I decided to try...

Spending my holiday with a couple racks of baby backs, a rack of spares for a friend, and some ABT's in the MES. Have a good holiday everyone! Sent from my DROID RAZR using Tapatalk

So I saw this NB on craigslist about an hour from me for $90. I talked him down to $55 and he met me 20 minutes from my house. Not much rust to speak of so I might not even repaint it. It's not 1/4" but more like 1/8". Definetly heavier than I thought it would be. The wood will get replaced...

Wow...after reading some of these brisket threads you'd think maybe it was rocket science. I'm here to tell you it's not. I'm not exactly new to the art but just now got around to a brisket. I've had plenty of practice with my MES and the local grocery was advertising packers on sale so I guess...

Doing a little multitasking today. Got a pan with onion,carrot, celery, portabellas, water, and concentrated beef stock. Got a 3 1/2 lb chuckie doctored with a little Worcestershire and some Montreal steak seasoning going ovet the top of the pan. The plan is to pull the chuckie, serve it on...

So I made another video today, this time a stuffed loin. I'm having fun playing with my new Zoom Q3HD camera and decided to make some of these walkthrough videos. Check out my cheese vid in the cheese section if you missed it. Yes, I tend to ramble but I edited this one down from 22 minutes to...

I got a new camera so I decided to make a little instructional video. My first attempt at video editing as well. Mmmmm....smoked cheese!

It's a nice 40 degree day here in central Iowa. Got two 9lbs butts in the MES. Sent from my DROID RAZR using Tapatalk

Well, lots of briskets for the Superbowl here in the beef section. They all look great....kind of makes my ground beef look like chopped liver. I went to a friend's house for the weekend to DJ a party. I drank way too much....a bunch of 30 somethings acting like we were still in...

Well, I've been busy and not keeping up on sharing my adventures with my MES 30. Time to catch up and I'm doing it all in one post. Some good, some decent, some bad....well here we go. I had a Cure 81 ham in the freezer and and decided I wanted to "twice" smoke it. This was a few days after...

Noting new here but....yep, these "Pork Shots" or "Pork Candy" are incredbly simple and quite possibly nature's perfect food. I have a holiday potluck at the office tomorrow so I figured I'd give them a try. I just used some store bought rub. All loaded up. Can't wait for two hours at...

On the day after Thanksgiving, I let the MES cool down after doing my stuffed loins and did 4 blocks of cheese. When my foodsaver showed up on Thursday, I removed them from the makeshift "straw suck the air out of the bag" packaging and properly vac sealed them. Then today, I did six more blocks...

No Black Friday shopping for me this year. The wife is heading out at Midnight and the little one is at his grandparents house so I'm going to spend a relaxing morning smoking some pork. I had these two pork loin roasts in the freezer and decided I was going to attempt to stuff them. It was my...

Have a good holiday everyone! May your smoke be blue and your turkeys be juicy. Got lots planned for my MES this weekend.....two meatloaves going in soon, some stuffed pork loins Friday and cheese Saturday.

So today turned out to be less windy than the weatherman had told me it was going to be so I decided to try a smoked meatloaf for supper. I wanted to give my AMNPS another go when I could keep an eye on it anyway. Started with a basic meatloaf recipe: 2lbs of 93% ground beef, 2 eggs, almost a...