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R.I.P.
It with heavy heart that I share that my Masterbuilt 30-inch electric smoker (model 20070312) officially passed on this weekend. I've read many posts cursing the MES for a variety of reasons, and always felt like I was on borrowed time. In the past few years, I learned I could not rely on the...- bertman
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Grilled Pizza with Pulled Pork
Last week I prepared most of the food for my wife's retirement party. I smoked deviled eggs, pork shoulder for some puff pastries, and two different kinds of summer sausage. I served a variety of smoked cheese as well. Quick side note: If you haven't smoked deviled eggs yet, I pity you. I had...- bertman
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Summer Sausage Issue
I ordered the Old Fashioned Summer Sausage seasoning from PS Seasoning, and followed instructions perfectly. I've made hundreds of pounds of sausage and snack sticks before, sometimes even from scratch. The fry test seemed very bland, but I went ahead and smoked a 12.5 lb. batch. It is terrible... -
Mailbox
I was getting everything ready to smoke some cheese today and realized it may be time to make a new mailbox mod for my MES. This thing has been used quite a bit, and I can't remember when I made it. After a patch job, it didn't stop me from smoking 10 lbs of cheese. It is finally warm enough...- bertman
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A Couple of Roasts
I should start off by explaining that my Father-in-Law is a beef producer, so we routinely get beef for Christmas. While digging through the freezer, I noticed that I have a few roasts from last year, so I thawed out a Sirloin Tip Roast and a Chuck Roast with no real plan other than smoking... -
Eggs Benedict with Smoked Rib Meat
My wife ordered something similar to this at a breakfast spot in Omaha a few years ago, and we still remember it fondly. Last week I smoked three slabs of spare ribs for our son and his buddies for a bachelor party, and we had some leftovers. I jumped at this chance. I browned some... -
Yardbirds on the new WSM
When we got married back in 1992, we received a smaller WSM as a wedding gift, and I made good use of it. For some reason, I quit using it, and quit smoking in general, until I purchased a MES about eight years ago. The MES has been used quite a lot, and I wanted something with more smokey... -
Easter Ham
Happy Easter, everyone. It was very strange watching services online instead of helping my father-in-law prepare breakfast for Sunrise Service for his church. In thirty years or so, I think I have missed out on that tradition only three times. Since we had a ham in the freezer, my wife insisted... -
Pulled Pork
I have a couple of pork butts in the freezer, a lot of time on my hands, and the wife has been suggesting pulled pork for a few weeks now. This butt has no bone, and I believe it's the other half of one I used for sausage meat a couple of months ago. Yesterday afternoon I rubbed it with yellow... -
Hopping on that meatloaf bandwagon
My wife hates meatloaf, so it isn’t something we get to have in my house. She has an uncle that smokes meatloaf on a regular basis, and I have dropped hints to her that I’d like to try that. Then last week, we went out to eat and I ordered a smoked meatloaf. It was amazing, and even she said she... -
Another post about breakfast fatties...
We have family in from overseas, so I thought I'd treat them to a memorable breakfast. Thanks to a post from loosechangedru, I decided to try a blueberry pancake fatty (we had leftover blueberry pancakes from yesterday's breakfast). Loosechangedru's recipe included blueberry cream cheese. I was... -
Running out of cooler weather
Today is supposed to only get into the 60s here, so I'm taking advantage and smoking one last round of cheese before summer. I've never tallied up an amount before, but I calculated over 9.5 lbs of cheese this time! Tried something new based on some other people's threads, and dusted some...- bertman
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- Forum: Smoked Cheese
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Venison Snack Sticks
I'm using a kit I ordered from Curley's Sausage Kitchen: Cody's Snack Stick or Pepper Sticks. I ordered this to meet a minimum order when I ordered their venison bacon kit a few months ago, so I've never tried it. Since I'm never happy with sausage kits, I had to doctor it. I added three minced... -
Jalapeno bird
We've had a few jalapeños ready, and I had a couple of whole fryers that I intended to smoke, so I thought I'd use the jalapeños in a brine. I thought for sure someone would have already tried it, but I searched here and couldn't find anything. I used 2/3 c of kosher salt, 2/3 c brown sugar, 1T... -
Venison bacon (Curley's kit) again
A couple of years ago I used my Q-Matz to make the Curley's bacon kit into rounds instead of strips (link here), but they still were more elliptical than circular. It was time to make more (actually, WAY past time), and this time it occurred to me that standing them on end in the fridge... -
Slow Learner?
Some of you might remember following along or offering advice a couple of years ago when I volunteered to smoke ribs for my in-laws' Christmas gathering (around 50 people). I smoked 9 lbs of beef ribs, 17 lbs of pork ribs, and a 14 lb turkey that year. This year my wife, her siblings and...- bertman
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New Use for Q-Matz
I had half of a kit for Curley’s venison bacon, but wanted to try to make it into rounds instead of strips. Although the flavor of this product tastes a lot like bacon, the texture isn’t the same, and my family had a hard time with that. But I love bagel sandwiches, and a large round slice of...- bertman
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I must have lost my mind...
My wife volunteered me to smoke some ribs for her family's Christmas get-together on Christmas Eve. I was told her cousin had some ribs that she wouldn't use, and wanted to donate for our feast. It turns out I am looking at an assortment of over 47 pounds of both beef and pork ribs. I am... -
Storing everything
I realize that I'm far from the smartest guy hanging around this forum, so I know that someone has probably already considered this. But for some of the newer guys, I thought I'd share something that I did that makes the grinding process pretty easy. I found a lidded container big enough to... -
Sausage Stuffer
I had been watching the LEM on Amazon for a while waiting for the price to go down, and then this morning I saw this one (it's new to me). I couldn't resist. It's on it's way to my house in time for deer season. Anyone know anything about these or the company?
