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  1. patcap

    It's been a long time..

    Hey, guys and gals..  I've been away for a long time, enjoying my smoker..  I'm considering trying something new and I would like y'all's thoughts..  I'm considering smoking a whole hog skin on.  I have a custom built vertical smoker made from 30" schedule 80 steel pipe.  It's 7' tall and I'm...
  2. patcap

    Whole wild hog smoke W/Q-view

    I recently killed a small wild hog and I am going to cook him whole this 4th of July weekend.  Dressed and cleaned he weighed in at 19 pounds.  I'm going to crack the ribs and flatten him out to cook and put some vidalia onions and mushrooms in the flattened cavity.  My plan it to cook him to...
  3. patcap

    First attempt at sausage!! W/Q-view

    My buddy took a 300+ lb boar at our hunting lease a couple of weeks ago and he decided that we needed to make sausage from the majority of it, so this is my first attempt at making and smoking sausage. We made three types. The first being cajun sausage(we are from Louisiana), the second is a...
  4. patcap

    Rabbit

    I recently had an opportunity to take a few rabbits before the season ends and I would really like to throw 'em on the smoker. After a search of the threads I was able to find one recent that had given me some ideas, but what I don't know is to what internal temp to bring the rabbit. Do I...
  5. patcap

    Prime Rib W/Q-view

    All this talk about prime rib recently, I decided to try my hand at it. I also did a pork loin and some chicken. the Ribeye Roast from Krogers: Seasoned with Kosher salt, black pepper, garlic powder, and fresh rosemary cut from the garden a few minutes before: The split chicken breasts...
  6. patcap

    Christmas party W/Q-view

    Had my shift Christmas party last night. Fed about 20 people. I cooked Nolan Ryan ribeyes (no growth hormones or anti-biotics) for the members of my shift. Hands down the best steak I have ever eaten. For the rest of the guests, I smoked two pork butts. One pulled and one sliced. I also smoked...
  7. patcap

    First pork butts w/qview

    Picked up a couple of butts at Sams today. Going to smoke them tomorrow. Naked trimmed butts in a pan: Injected with a combination of cajun seasoning, local honey, lemon juice, and a little apple cider, and rubbed with lemon juice and cajun blast rub.
  8. patcap

    First brine and first smoked turkey

    I want to have a smoked turkey for my shift Christmas party this year, so I decided to have a test run. I bought a turkey of about 11 lbs and decided to inject and brine, so I used the brine and injection recipes from travcoman45. I added a little lemon juice to the brine though. we'll see how...
  9. patcap

    First Brisket!! / future q/view

    My sister-in-law and her family are coming over tonight for a visit and I've been volunteered to "smoke something". In spite of it being the first perfect weather weekend to hunt, I'm a little excited about cooking my first brisket. I found a 9 pounder at Sam's. After I trimmed it, it was about...
  10. patcap

    First time ribs...and more Q/view

    I am trying my hand at spareribs for the first time. I'm also smoking another wild hog roast and cooking up the trimmings from the ribs and a few hamburgers Ribs: Roast and trimmings: Burgers: More Q/view when available
  11. patcap

    Beef Tenderloin W/Q-view

    Was at Sams today and saw some nice looking beef tenderloin steaks, so I decided to pick some up. I'm not necessarily going to smoke them, but I'm going to cook it on the grill with a little sugar maple smoke. It should be great. I seasoned with a dusting of Holliers Cajun seasoning and then...
  12. patcap

    Wild Hog Roast w/qview

    I'm finally able to smoke the wild hog roast from my freezer. I just finished seasoning it along with some split chicken breasts. It's going to depend on the weather, but my plan is to smoke them tomorrow. I used Jeff's rub. It was delicious on the chicken last time. I hope it's just as good on...
  13. patcap

    Can't stand it any longer!! w/Q-view

    I'm at my breaking point!! I'm tired of smoking veggies and eggs!! I have to smoke some kind of meat, so I picked up some split chicken breasts with rib meat. I made some of Jeff's naked rub and I slathered them with it. they're going to sit in the fridge overnight and I'm gonna smoke those...
  14. patcap

    More eggs and veggies w/Q-view

    Trying a few new things today. I am again smoking some eggs, but I have a lot of veggies I'm smoking as well. I'm smoking a butternut squash, a couple of onions, two portabello mushrooms with chopped garlic on them, three heads of garlic, some zucchini, some red, yellow, and orange bell...
  15. patcap

    Paprika

    I run into a lot of recipes that call for smoked paprika, but I have a lot of trouble finding it where I live. It occurred to me that, "hey dummy you have a smoker and maybe you could try to smoke it yourself". Is it a matter of simply spreading it out in a pan and smoking it or are there...
  16. patcap

    Pork Roast

    I getting very close to my target weight and I am going to be able to use my smoker for things other than veggies and eggs. My first smoke I think is going to be a bone-in pork roast from the hind quarter of a wild hog I harvested. I plan to slice the meat. This cut of meat tends to be a...
  17. patcap

    trying something new w/Q-view

    Here's my 2nd official smoke. This time I am smoking eggs again, hopefully better than last time, but I am also smoking some peppers. Not ABT's, but the whole peppers. I have some habeneros and some jalapenos. I really like to make my own pepper vinegar, so I decided to try it with the peppers...
  18. patcap

    First smoke

    Okay, I decided to go a little easy at first with my first smoke. I decided to smoke some eggs. Cheap and if I mess them up not a hard lesson. I have to say that it was very easy to maintain the temp at about 225 throughout. I found the sweet spot with the propane. Below is a photo of the eggs...
  19. patcap

    Hello from Southwest Louisiana

    My name is Louis and I live in Southwest Louisiana. I been BBQing for some time and dabbled a little with smoke, but I wanted to have the ability to do more than throw some wood on my charcoal in my bbq pit as an afterthought, so I decided to have a smoker built. As we speak, I am seasoning...
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