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    Dino ribs, tips please

    So I’m finally gonnawmoke some Dino ribs and I couldn’t be more excited. Now I’ll be at a friends lake house and I’ll be using their traegor pellet smoker. My plan is an 8hr cook if they end sooner fine they’ll just rest before eating. But I’m gonna hit em with the low temp high smoke for the...
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    Beef short rib first time

    Gonna do beef short ribs for the first time today on my vertical propane master built. These are from our half cow we get, do I need to trim that thick top fat layer off before seasoning them, their pretty tall/thick. Plan is for 4-5hrs cook running between 275-300 with no plan to wrap. Trim or...
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    Smoking in the cold weather

    So Super Bowl coming up it’s gonna be 30deg in Michigan on Sunday with still 10” of snow in the ground. Any tricks for smoking in cold weather. I have a mb 4 shelf 2 door propane smoker. Plan is I wanna do wings at 275 for the early pregame app but then put on some ribs around 1pm also for...
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    Short rib? Dino rib? Same thing??

    Are short ribs and Dino ribs the same thing??? I have a half cow coming and requested the processor leave the ribs in packs of 3 ribs for ease of cooking. Usually I have them ground up but now I wanna try my hand at smoking them. Just wondering if the short ribs are the same thing as the Dino...
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    Wing time

    Half jerk half bbq rub on the masterbuilt propane. Rolling ate 240-250 with cherry and pecan chunks. Bacon wrapped poppers going on in 30 min. Go blue!!!!
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    Has Anyone used western brand wood splits ?

    There’s a sporting goods store by me that sells bags of both oak and hickory splits made by western brand, Im sure y’all know the name. I’d like to start using splits in my offset vs charcoal and chunks just wondered if anyone had used these and had any opinions. Does the oak provide good...
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    Pork shoulder Boston roast bone in. Pulled pork worthy?

    The store had a couple Boston butt and they were huuuge per usual however they also had this cut and its a more manageable 6lbs. Will this work for pulled pork?
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    Breaking in my “new” offset

    So I bought this used for 50$ only used twice. Right now I’m putting it through an intro stage so I can get used to the fire management but I had couple questions, and I watched some YouTube vids yesterday too. So I started with one full chimney of lump charcoal, let that get going and added it...
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    My “new” offset

    Garage sale with the fam today found this for 50$. Super clean guy only used it twice and I’ve been considering an offset for mainly briskets as I use a master built propane upright now and I can’t fit a ful brisket on the shelves and I also wonder if it’s effecting that smoke ring as the smoke...
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    Smoked jerk wing time

    I’ve been wanting to try this marinade on wings for awhile, today’s the day. Pecan and cherry chunks in my masterbuilt propane, running at 250-265, we’ll see how these turn out in a couple hrs. And if you’ve never used this sauce/marinade it’s one of the best jerk seasonings I’ve tasted and it’s...
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    Edited: Cook time on a 5-6lb brisket point

    I’m just throwing it out there. Got some friends coming over next week and I won’t have time to cook a whole brisket so I was thinking of separating the point and flat and if I had time cooking up the point for burnt ends. Plan on eating at 6 so I’d have from noon to six to cook. Enough time or...
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    Traegor pellet smoker

    So I’m making 6 racks of ribs in a friends pellet traegor electric which I’ve never used before. So it has a dial for “smoke” then it goes in temps 180, 225, 250,275 etc. so my question is do I use the “smoke” setting first for an hour then set the temp to finish cooking? I’m just noticing it’s...
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    How long will preseasoned steak last

    I got a bunch of wings on the smoker but i got a later start to smoking the wings, they were gonna be an appetizer since it’s just me at home today, fam is gone to the in laws lake house, so that’ll prob be dinner tonight and I also have a ny strip and another cut that I rubbed with olive oil...
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    Smoked wings time.

    I’ve never been a big wing guy, not into fried stuff From like the bars and chains, but when I started tasting smoked wings it’s become a new fav so today I’m trying my first attempt. Going 275 on my masterbuilt propane with pecan and cherry wood for a 2 hr cook. We’ll see what happens. an hour...
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    Father’s Day brisket.

    12lb’er got the smoke rollin at 8. Gonna cook it in the 275-300F range and rendering down the trimmed fat to put on the butcher paper when wrapping for an experiment. Hopefully it’ll be done by 6 to share with some friends. note to self. Keep an eye on the smoker. I apparently didn’t shut the...
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    Second try on some bb’s

    Beautiful hot Sunday in Michigan so why not do some ribs. First attempt couple weeks ago came out great hopefully I can recreate that. 2+hrs in pit running a little hot in the 265-275 range, so I’m thinking they’ll be done in 5rs like the last batch. Gonna do one slab unwrapped and one wrapped...
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    Spatchcock chicken cook

    I’ve done whole chickens but decided to spatchcock this one to speed up the cook and just to try it out. 6lb bird been cooking between 275-300, I removed the water pan to see what sort of temp swing I’d have without it, about 25+ deg, if anything just to get a gauge for my next brisket. IT in...
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    Brisket question as it’s cooking

    So my pit has run around 275 for the cook. At 4hrs i butcher paper wrapped it and now the probes one in the thickest part of the flat the other in the point/flat intersection are at 202-205. Should I pull it even though cook time is only 6hrs? I I opened the door of the smoker to let more heat...
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    Water pan do u use one?

    This is my setup and as I smoke my brisket and I’m wondering do u guys/gals use a water pan. I saw a video of Franklin last night and he used one but in a diff position in the smoker as he had a diff Pit. I’m wondering is it also deflecting the smoke from the meat? Just thinking out loud, trying...
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    Tomorrow's brisket.

    Wife invited people over Tomm so I Trimmed this 8lb’er choice I got from Kroger For dinner Tomm. Left more fat on it than normally just really tried to shape it and trim that top outer layer of fat down and trim that fluffy white fat off of it, the fat really wasn’t that thick to begin with...
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