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  1. Dustin Dorsey

    Mesquite in North Texas Texoma area

    I went to high school with him. That's a coincidence! Good guy!
  2. Dustin Dorsey

    Offset Firebox thoughts

    I think that number was kind of an observation by some guys on forums that built pits. You'll see lots of well made pits that violate this rule. There was never some optimal calculation made. Now a guy did make a pit calculator based on those observations. I think people get those things...
  3. Dustin Dorsey

    Whole Pork Picnic for Grind?

    My understanding is that picnic roasts are leaner, so you might or might not need to add some fat to the grind.
  4. Dustin Dorsey

    Hoping next cook goes smoother

    I love the RFX as well. There's just things that can wrong with all that technology that might not even be the RFX's fault. I did an overnight cook on the WSM a while back and I know the Smoke is just going to work. I used the RFX for that cook, but threw an ambient probe from the Smoke in...
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    Hoping next cook goes smoother

    The Smoke is bulletproof. I bought one when they came out. It's a great unit. I've got other Thermoworks products even like the Signals, and the RFX, (Both are fantastic) but if I absolutely need the highest level of trust on a cook, I use the Smoke.
  6. Dustin Dorsey

    A German style potatoe salad

    Looks great! That's probably one of my favorite styles of potato salad.
  7. Dustin Dorsey

    Help Did I use to much Prague powder #1?

    I'm thinking you are ok, but hopefully an expert will chime in. Usually with a wet brine you calculate the cure based on the weight of the water plus the meat (If I remember correctly). The cure might be over but not drastically over.
  8. Dustin Dorsey

    Easter Brisket 2025

    I cooked a Brisket for Easter this year. It's been a while since I've gotten to cook one. Seasoned with Kosher salt, 16 mesh black pepper and Franklin BBQ Spice. Franklin pit fired up with post oak. Brisket cooking. I kept the pit around 260 until the stall and let it get closer to 300...
  9. Dustin Dorsey

    Advice for an Offset Smoker

    It's a little more than you want to pay but you might look at the Old Country G2 at $1899. The Old Country Brazos is a good pit though. The only drawback is that it comes with a baffle and tuning plates and that make the cooker a bottom up cooker vs. top down. That's no big deal unless you...
  10. Dustin Dorsey

    Lactose intolerant?

    I've had good results with c-bind.
  11. Dustin Dorsey

    Looking for a new Sous vide cooker

    I should have looked closer at the picture. I didn't see the burn marks on the ribbon cable! :emoji_laughing:
  12. Dustin Dorsey

    Looking for a new Sous vide cooker

    The control panel came off on mine. The posts that hold the screws broke so I just hot glued it back and it's still kicking. Admittedly I had mine stored in the garage to I had a lot of thermal expansion and contraction going on out there, but still it shouldn't have happened. That happens...
  13. Dustin Dorsey

    Bangers and Mash

    I used hog casings. The gravy was this British product called "Bisto" that my wife wanted to use. I would have preferred to make an onion gravy.
  14. Dustin Dorsey

    Bangers and Mash

    I made bangers and mash this past weekend with homemade bangers made with homemade rusk. Here's the rusk I made: I used the grater on my food processor to turn break the rusks down. Seasoned meat. My recipe. This was from Chud's BBQ Cumberland sausage video. Ground up meat. Stuffed. I...
  15. Dustin Dorsey

    Any "foil boat" captains out there?

    I've only done it on a pork butt so far and it worked well. I may try it on a brisket at some point but generally go with butcher paper. With a Texas style brisket you are cooking fat up and you want that fat well rendered. The foil boat gives you more time for the fat to render while also...
  16. Dustin Dorsey

    SB Halftime show

    I can appreciate the pageantry of the whole performance even if the music isn't my thing. My son was into it. I'm a big Tom Petty fan and I remember the year he did the Super Bowl half time people complaining because it was old people music, even back them.
  17. Dustin Dorsey

    First curing accident

    That's pretty hot on the cure. I don't think it'd be that toxic, but I'd worry and 2 pounds of pork ain't worth worrying over. I'm curious where you found cure#1 at 12%.
  18. Dustin Dorsey

    Shelf life of Ecocure?

    I decide to cure some pork belly for bacon and I was going to use some ecocure #1 that I bought when we all bought it. I noticed the best by date says 2023, but used it anyway. Should I hedge my bets and not smoke the bacon that long?
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    First curing accident

    What was the weight of the pork?
  20. Dustin Dorsey

    Jalapeño Cheddar sausage

    That sausage looks outstanding! I got the chance to go to Dayne's a while back and the sausage was excellent. He had a blueberry gouda sausage I thought I'd hate, but it was incredible.
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