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  1. yardbird

    Question about pellet smokers.... planning...

    This'll get a little wordy, but please bear with me as I explain the situation before asking the question :) Right now I have a Weber Performer charcoal grill, a Ducane Stainless gas grill, and a Smoke Hollow propane cabinet smoker. The smoker is in a "shack on a pallet" that I built for it...
  2. yardbird

    turkey day.....yum...

    Before: and After: 13 pound bird, brined 24 hours in Chef JimmyJ's brine. Rubbed under the skin and on top of skin with herbed butter (thyme, sage, garlic). With a large bundle of fresh thyme shove up where the sun never shined. Dried in fridge uncovered for 12 hours. Bird into smoker at...
  3. yardbird

    2 butts - Q-View

    Just pulled these from the smoker. Butts are odd creatures. The last one I did took almost 20 hours before I finally pulled it. These 2 took only about 7 AND both got done at the same time even though they were on different racks in the smoker. Go figure... Resting in foil for an hour or...
  4. yardbird

    Winner, Winner, Chicken Dinner!

    hehehehe.... did an all night pork shoulder and then did this chicken for tonight's dinner. This was a pretty big roaster. Around 7 pounds. Smoker temp 350 for just over 2 hours. Skin didn't crisp as much as I'd have liked, but it wasn't rubbery either. I just like it to crunch :) So if I...
  5. yardbird

    JAPB - Just Another Pork Butt :) - UPDATED with Q-view

    Trimmed, rubbed, wrapped, and into the fridge. This will go on tonight for an overnighter. I've never trimmed a pork butt before but wanted to try trimming off the big thick fat slab on the bottom to get the rub on the meat instead of the fat. This will go into the smoker tonight at some...
  6. yardbird

    Burner flame adjustment (air/fuel) - FIXED! :)

    OK, I was all happy about being able to get high temps in my Smoke Hollow and it would go low pretty easily too. But today I pulled the burner to really clean it, not just run a spider brush in it. I pulled it because I could no longer get rid of the yellow tips on the flames. They're not HUGE...
  7. yardbird

    A house for my smoker...

    OK, I've asked about smoker "shelters" before. It gets cold here for extended periods and I don't want to have the smoker under a tarp, or prop doors against it or whatever. So I'm building what will eventually look like an outhouse :) I had some leftover 2x4s and 1" thick Hemlock from building...
  8. yardbird

    First overnight pork butt

    Still in the smoker. Q-View in a bit. This was about a 6 pound butt. Best Odds rub (I like it simple). Never done an overnighter before, but I've gotten fairly used to my Smoke Hollow gasser (after 2 seasons using it) and felt pretty confident. I put the meat in the smoker about 8pm. Hickory and...
  9. yardbird

    Whole chicken with Qview (of course)

    Whole chicken. Brined 4 hours mostly cause it was thawing too slow. Three days in the fridge and I still had to pry the innards package out. Smoker temp about 380 and smoked with pecan and apple. This was about an 8 pound roaster and took almost exactly 2 hours. Ate what we wanted then I...
  10. yardbird

    Just ribs - with QView

    I cruise the meat section of the local grocery looking for the "Special Today!" tags. Just means that the "Use or freeze by..." date is really close. Usually 2 or 3 days away. Found some ribs at half price. I was surprised at how meaty they were. Smoked with a mix of equal parts pecan, apple...
  11. yardbird

    Smoker location help please. :)

    Right now my smoker sits over at one end of the patio, OFF the patio, and isn't real convenient this way. It's also entirely exposed to the wind so I built a wind break around it, but it was never intended to be used permanently and is getting kinda ratty looking. I'd LIKE to move it closer to...
  12. yardbird

    Gas GRill help needed quickly! Craigslist

    Sorry if this is in the wrong place, but I couldn't figure out where else to go A grill just showed up on Craigslist. It's a Jade/Dynasty 30" model. All stainless, including the cooking grates. Best info I can find is that these are USA made by Zeus (formerly Emerald). I found a new one on...
  13. yardbird

    First Chuckie going in - w/Q-View!

    My original schedule would have had me putting this in at about 8 or 8:30, but it's fixin' to rain here ... hard ... and probably won't stop until somewhere around 10 or 11. So I figured better early than late and stuck it in the smoker about 6:45. This is about a 3 and a quarter pounder. It's...
  14. yardbird

    Talk to me about chuck roasts...

    I've searched and found a few threads about chuckies, but I don't feel like I know enough yet to launch into mine. I have a pair of chuck roasts. Kinda small-ish at about 3 and a quarter pounds each. The pair only weighs 6 and a half and they look to be pretty much equal in size. Inch and a...
  15. yardbird

    smoker in a building?

    Ok, well now that I'm hooked and love using the smoker, I'm looking for ways to make it easier to do year round. I live in western NY state so winters and wind can sometimes be a limiting factor. I got through last winter by building what is supposed to be a temporary wind screen on 3 sides, but...
  16. yardbird

    Turkey going in soon. Smoker coming up to temp - QVIEW added

    Cruised the meat section yesterday even though I wasn't shopping for meat. Found a fresh (never frozen) 12 pound turkey marked down to 69 cents a pound. Around here that means I got a $20 turkey for under $10. The "catch" was it had to be frozen or used by today. So.... ok! I did not brine...
  17. yardbird

    1st try at beef ribs - confusing information :)

    Naturally I came on here and started reading what I can find about beef ribs. I'm still somewhat confused. Foil or no foil? Seems kind of mixed opinions on that question. Smoker temp, some say hot and fast and done in 2 or 3 hours, and some say 225-ish and about 5 or 6 hours. That's quite a lot...
  18. yardbird

    7.5 pound pork butt - so glad I'm retired...

    7 and a half pound pork butt went in the smoker at 5:30am Rub: (I think I got this from a Chef Jimmy post, but not sure) 1/2 C Brown Sugar (recipe called for turbinado but I didn't have any) 2T sweet Paprika 1T Kosher salt 1T Chili powder 1T granulated garlic 1T granulated onion 1t black...
  19. yardbird

    thermostatically controlled gasser?

    Does anyone make a thermostatically controlled propane smoker? I'm thinking about canibalizing a regular propane gas oven from a range or something to get the burner and control valve and stuff, and constructing my own. But before I even ATTEMPT to go down that road, I was wondering if I'm...
  20. yardbird

    question about pellet grill care and feeding

    I currently have a charcoal grill and a propane smoker. I am considering a pellet grill/smoker as my next upgrade (depending on which of the current ones dies first) Questions about the pellets... Do you just leave them in the hopper all the time? Or do you have to empty the hopper of unused...
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