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Evening Friends!
Mrs. Red made a special request for some smoked wings for dinner tonight. The direct-heat setup on the Hasty Bake made fast, easy work of some tasty wings!
So here's the setup on the HB. About a half-basket lump charcoal...set up for 2 zone cooking.
Here are tonight's...
Good morning Friends!
Since the rack of BB ribs from a few days ago went well, I wanted the second cook on the new grill to be hot and fast searing. So we did burgers for dinner last night. Nothing earth-shattering here - just showing off the range of the new Hasty Bake.
I started with a...
Here's the first cook in the new Hasty Bake. I'd done a test burn in it several days ago, just to get a rough idea on charcoal amounts, run time, temp control, etc. But today was the first cook. Just a single rack of baby backs.
First off, @SmokinEdge had asked in another thread about the...
Happy Thursday SMF Friends!
If you saw a previous thread, you know I decided to downsize a little, and sell my big gravity fed cabinet smoker in favor of a Hasty Bake Smoker/Grill/Oven. Well the new pit arrived today!
It's a Hasty Bake Legacy 131. For those unfamiliar, Hasty Bake is the...
I am selling my insulated gravity fed cabinet smoker. I just bought a new pit, so this one has to go to make room for the new one in my garage.
It is a Southern Q Limo Jr. gravity fed charcoal smoker, which I purchased new in 2019. It has 4 slide-out cooking racks, each measuring 19"x24"...
This is a new build. I've built fires in it twice - to do a test cook and to season it. I really hate to part with it, but as I said in the build thread, I just don't have room to store another cooker...so something has to go (I'll also be advertising my big gravity feed smoker, and I'll sell...
I've been planning this build since late last Fall. Just had to get the holidays behind me and shake off a case of the Lazy's!
So my plan is a box for use as both a direct heat, live-fire smoker, and a high-heat grill. This type of cooker has become more popular lately. They're basically a...
As an admitted cooking nerd, I've always enjoyed and respected America's Test Kitchen for providing scientific, unbiased information about all things related to cooking. Their newest video is about charcoal. I was surprised by their findings! While I've never done any real comparison testing...
I’m sure someone here has had similar problems. Something is utterly destroying our yard! Digging holes Everywhere! There are dozens of holes, growing more by the night. We suspected armadillos, and the suspicion was confirmed when Mrs. Red was driving out at 5 am a couple mornings ago…and...
Hello SMF Friends! Hope everyone's week is off to a good start.
Those of you who followed my last build, a 24x42 reverse flow patio smoker, probably know that I recently sold that pit to Ryan (@Brokenhandle). He seems very happy with it, which makes me even happier!
So anyway, as I was...
Some of you have followed the build thread for this smoker - a 24x46 Reverse Flow offset patio smoker.
As I said recently in that build thread, I didn't really need the smoker (I have a big gravity feed smoker that serves me well, and I don't really have the space to store another big...
Happy Sunday Evening Friends!
As those who've followed my build thread know, I just finished a build on Reverse Flow Smoker. If you're interested, here's the link to that build thread:
https://www.smokingmeatforums.com/threads/reds-24x46-reverse-flow-patio-build.319576/
Anyway, I cooked a...
I know...usually when someone says "let me show you pictures of our vacation", you roll your eyes and try to sneak away! So be warned - sneak away now if you need to...
So Mrs. Red and her mother had never been to the Grand Canyon...and that was on both their bucket lists (IMHO, it should be...
Ok...so I know we're on a meat-smoking forum, and this strays pretty far outside that...so please bear with me here.
I'm wondering how many of y'all are as passionate about your morning cup as I've become in recent years.
I've been a coffee drinker most of my life. Since I was a teenager, I...
Evening Friends!
It has occurred to me that I haven't posted any q-view in quite some time. Since I was smoking a rack of Baby Backs today, I figured I'd rectify that.
A little background story to go with the ribs. Mrs. Red lost her father just about this time a year ago. Since I had lost...
Please say hello to our newest grandson:
Crew Wade Collins entered the world yesterday, Tuesday, February 13th, at 1:38pm…weighing in at 8 lbs. 3 oz.
Mrs. Red, of course, couldn’t wait to get her hands on him!
Both mother and child are healthy and happy. Mrs. Red and I are...
Howdy SMF Brothers and Sisters!
I started a RF patio smoker build several months ago...and kept meaning to start a build thread here. So I'm finally getting around to doing that!
I started with this propane tank. It's 5/16" thick, and 24" diameter by almost 11 feet long.
I plasma-cut the...
I'm in the middle of a build - 24"x48" RF from an old propane tank. I'm about to the step where I'm ready to cut the door in the main CC. My tank has a 5/16" thick wall. My original plan was to cut the door with my plasma cutter, but I'd like to minimize the chances of warping. Any advice or...
Hello Friends,
I've been considering purchasing a Meater Plus bluetooth thermometer...and wanting to solicit opinions and/or reviews from any of you who own and use these. I really like the idea of a totally wireless probe that measures both internal meat temps and ambient cooker temps without...
Howdy Friends,
A few weeks back, an Inkbird rep reached out and asked me to test and review their 4-probe wireless bluetooth BBQ thermometer - the IBT-4XS. I agreed to try the product out and post my thoughts.
First, let me get a couple of disclosures out of the way:
1. They sent me this...