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  1. shawnthomas

    How to add Phosphate to my brine/prep process? Pork butts brine...and phosphate injecting? Asking how to, not ya or nah!

    Normally I brine my pork butts for about a week in a salt and and brown sugar brine. I have recently had great luck injecting some lower quality cuts of beef with CosmoQ injections night b4, smoking to desired doneness and then sous vide for hours more to get tenderness, been real happy with...
  2. shawnthomas

    Tri-tip yummy

    Smoked some tri-tip last weekend...It turned out great!
  3. shawnthomas

    Tiny air bubbles in hot dogs...

    I made hot dogs this weekend with the ol champion juicer. Emulsion is great, however there are lots of tiny air bubbles in my final product, anyone have any tricks they use to remove these? I think my wife will divorce me if i purchase a commercial vacuum stuffer. My goal is to replicate the...
  4. shawnthomas

    cooking for hire(kinda)???

    Had a guy I know(not a close friend) ask me to smoke some meat for him for a birthday party. I have not ever cooked for any large groups other than my own family or personal parties. I am not licensed and not looking to get into catering. I figure the cost of meat i will have receipt. He want...
  5. shawnthomas

    HELP! seeking smoked sous vide beef rib reciepe/method/advice

    I have cooked many things with my sous vide cooker and many things with my smoker. But Beef ribs are on thing I have never cooked in either. looking for advice, methods, reciepes pretty much any help I can get.
  6. shawnthomas

    Homemade pinapple brats!

    Wife and i made 20 ponunds of pinapple brats today, 10 pounds of breakfast sausage and 10 pounds of plain ground pork, last night!
  7. shawnthomas

    Whole hog!

    Had a small gilt that I did not get sold and she was the last one of that group so instead of feeding her longer I decided to butcher her. Purebred Berkshire! Kept the whole loins, ribs, shoulders and belly...ended up cutting belly up also due to lean and thin. Not surprising in the she was...
  8. shawnthomas

    Crisping smoked wings.

    I smoked 10 pounds of wings this afternoon. Going to cool them and refrigerate them tonight. Plan is to take tailgating tomorrow. Going to lightly dredge them in flour and fry them with propane turkey fryer in the tail gate lot. Question is what temp should a guy fry already cooked and...
  9. shawnthomas

    Aged ribeyes!

    Cutting my 30 day dry aged ribeyes!
  10. shawnthomas

    Pineapple bratwursts...

    We just love hyvees pineapple bratts, so with anything good you buy at the store one can only imagine homemade could be much better. With that being said does anyone have a pineapple Brat reciepe that they would be willing to share? Or any experiences they would be willing to share.
  11. shawnthomas

    Seeking apple gouda pork sausage reciepe

    Does anyone have any good apple gouda pork sausage reciepes they would be willing to share. I have eaten some good store bought ones and felt surly I can make my own better with out all the other crop they put in them. I'm thinking of starting with a mild polish type seasoning mix. Using all...
  12. shawnthomas

    First time forum guy here!

    Hello all! Shawn here. New to forums, have read many older ones over the years as I started smoking stuff a couple years ago. I run a treager with a smoke daddy smoke generator added on also have had the smoke daddy pid controller but have stock traeger controller in it now (pid quit working...
  13. shawnthomas

    First time forum guy here!

    Hello all! Shawn here. New to forums, have read many older ones over the years as I started smoking stuff a couple years ago. I run a treager with a smoke daddy smoke generator added on also have had the smoke daddy pid controller but have stock traeger controller in it now (pid quit working...
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