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  1. sky monkey

    Stuffed Burgers - Jalapenos and Hickory!

    My kitchen is torn apart for a remodel right now so good home cooked meals have been a little too rare the last couple weeks. Had to do something about that even though the dishes I created are going to be a PITA. 50% ground beef and 50% ground bison. Seasoned with CBP and Trager's Garlic Chili...
  2. sky monkey

    Short notice, short-cut pulled pork for 85 people

    I was asked to do a pulled pork lunch for 3 shifts at our shop for a morale booster. Total of 85 people over three shifts (50 on day, 15 on swing and 20 on weekend) serving at three different times. I didn't have a budget so I tried to get a caterer to do it but no one could handle the 2 day...
  3. sky monkey

    Tri-tip, blood blisters?

    I've seen one of these on several tri tips in the past. I bought this one, untrimmed and as I was trimming I noticed this one had five of these marks. They're not too deep into the actual meat. Kind of ride in the fat and just a little way into the meat. Can anyone tell me what they are?
  4. sky monkey

    Brazilian picanha steak w/ spicy chimichurri

    I've always told my wife if she sees a hunk of meat for a good price at the grocery store just buy it and don't worry about what it actually is. I'll figure out how to cook it. I usually get about 2 surprises a year and this week was one of them. She brought home a 2 1/2 lb Brazilian picanha...
  5. sky monkey

    Hickory smoked tri tip with black rub - Q-view

    I typically do my tri tips over charcoal Santa Maria inspired (without a Santa Maria grill unfortunately) I got this new beef rub though and while I rarely use rubs someone else mixed up I wanted to try it on a couple different cuts. I did ribeye with it last week but not in the smoker. Here are...
  6. sky monkey

    Ribeye with new rub

    I read about the Hardcore Carnivore rubs in an earlier post or two and ordered some from Amazon. Came in Saturday but I had no suitable piece of beef to try it on. Driving past the butcher today I swung in and had them lop me off 2 ribeyes at 1 1/2 inches thick. I was already planning on doing a...
  7. sky monkey

    First time smoked rib roast

    Picked up this choice bone in rib roast from Winco for $5.98lb. In all my years of smoking just never did a rib roast, I would always cut them up into ribeye steaks. It was 7.4 lbs but I cut the bones out and put them aside for another time. Rubbed with salt, pepper, garlic powder and onion...
  8. sky monkey

    Smoked Cheese for the holidays

    This is my 2nd run at cold smoking cheese. Figured I'd make some for Christmas presents and to eat at Thanksgiving. The last time I used pellets in the A-Maz-N 5x7 tray and some of you guys suggested switching to dust over the pellets. I'm here to tell you thanks! When I used pellets the initial...
  9. sky monkey

    Quarantine Brisket!

    I did some day drinking on Friday which led to me passing out around 6pm which then led to me waking up at 12:30am pretty rested so I thought it'd be a great time to start that brisket in my fridge. Had to buy the brisket back from my non-profit organization as all of our events got cancelled I...
  10. sky monkey

    Baby Backs over Hickory

    You can see my rub ingredients in my first pic. Rubbed them 3 hours before smoke and back in the fridge. Stabilized my propane MES 40 at 230F (floated between 220-245 most of the time) and used the 2-2-1 method with hickory chips. Started doing something new with the wrap and putting a little...
  11. sky monkey

    New addition to the stable, Masterbuilt Air Fryer

    Won this at a golf tournament this summer. I wasn't to keen on having a piece of equipment pretty much for only turkeys but then I saw the wood chip tray! Interested to see how today's turkey turns out. Past couple years I've been spatchcocking it but it takes up so much room in the smoker and...
  12. sky monkey

    First smoked cheese

    Technically it's not my first - I tried about a 6 oz medium cheddar block for 1 hour back in October when there were pellets left burning on my AMPTS. Rested it for 3 weeks and was amazed at the taste. Time to get serious. Read a lot of articles and decided on 3 hours of cold smoke. I had ran...
  13. sky monkey

    If you haven't before, try TWO temp probes in the meat.

    A while back I read somewhere that with a chicken, dark meat tastes best at 170°F IT but white meat is best at 165°F IT. I believe it was in an article about spatchcocking. I do nearly all my birds spatchcocked after trying the first one. It dawned on me about a month after I bought a 2nd...
  14. sky monkey

    Stuffed Pork Loin w/ Qview

    Picked up this 5lb half loin on sale for $1.68lb. Couldn't turn away at that price. I'd never tried a stuffed pork loin before so this was my chance. I seasoned both sides with SPOG and smoked paprika and some Tony's Cajun. I then added 1 1/2 Fuji apples and 3/4 can of whole cranberries...
  15. sky monkey

    Tri Tip on my new kettle

    My wife got me an off-brand copy of the 22.5" Weber kettle for father's day. Still have a couple issues to resolve with customer service but it's much more serviceable than my 19 year old Weber 18" kettle. I'm cooking Tri Tip for the company picnic this Saturday and wanted to refine my recipe...
  16. sky monkey

    Smoked Spring Chinook

    An avid fisherman buddy at work offered me 4-5 lbs of springer fillets if I returned half of it smoked. My kind of bartering! I used Bearcarver's brine recipe and also started with hickory and then went to apple and alder but I can't keep my MES 40" as low as I need so my smoke only lasted...
  17. sky monkey

    New smoker, yeee-haw!

    I smoked enough food for my friends that they bought me a new freaking smoker! I am blown away how blessed I am. Check out my new 40" Masterbuilt. I've heard it is an MES in less fashionable clothing. Cabela's lifetime warranty though. Now I've got to move my 30" Smoke Hollow out to the large...
  18. sky monkey

    SV to Grill Drumsticks and Dinner with Q-View

    I made some wings for Superbowl and found the Scarbelly Wings recipe. I had the small party wings but I did it anyway injecting each tiny piece of delicious poultry flying devices. It was tedious but as I've learned cooking with intent to please, delicious is in the details. :) I had never...
  19. sky monkey

    Pizza Fatty w Qview

    I had my thoughts on another fatty for a couple weeks but seeing i6quer's pizza fatty post pushed me over the edge and I had to try that style. My first pizza fatty. 1 lb Jimmy Dean "regular" sausage 1lb classic cut grocery store bacon, weaved 3 brown mushrooms, trimmed the stem, sliced thin 8...
  20. sky monkey

    Porterhouse, my best yet w/ Q-view

    I know this isn't conventional smoking and some may even say belongs in the SV page but I incorporated smoke, SV bath and charcoal and I think the results speak volumes. Had 2 porterhouse steaks cut at a local butcher at 1 1/2" thick, not a specialty meat shop, just your run of the mill...
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