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  1. lnares

    Advise for 1st brisket

    We were at Costco today and they had a brisket flat that was about 3 1/3 lb. On Thursday, when I have plenty of time to sit around home, I'm going to put it in our 40" MES. I have a rub I love that I'll put on it. Any suggestions for cooking temp, internal temp, and a rough estimate of...
  2. lnares

    Help me successfully smoke a cut of beef

    Okay, we have tried to smoke brisket, an eye of round roast and a chuck roast with little success. While they smell great, none of them have been tender, and honestly just a little tough. I suspect that the problem is that since there are only 2 of us, and we tend to buy 2 lb roasts, the cuts of...
  3. lnares

    First Smoked Turkey - not quite right

    We're doing Thanksgiving at our house this year, after a 5 yr hiatus, and my husband decided he wanted to smoke the turkey this time.  But since not everything we've done has been successful we figured we should do a practice run first. Good thing we did. I should probably say that we have a...
  4. lnares

    Brisket on electric smoker

    We've smoked salmon and pork loin (thanks everyone for the help), but really want to do a melt in your mouth brisket. We have an elective smoker that only has one steady temp (I think it's 225 deg). What size do you recommend? There are only 2 of us, but if it turns out well we'll share at our...
  5. lnares

    Newbie - LNares

    The smoker is my husband's.  We live in SoCal - Orange County, so this is something we can do year round. The smoker is a Brinkmann Electric Smoker, which we understand has a constant temp of about 250 degrees.  He seems to have perfected smoked salmon, but we want to move onto pork loin...
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