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if you google sous vide controlers. you can make fully digital contrller for about $50 in parts from amazom. mine works both for controling my inlaws crappy electric smoker which has no controles. and for my extra fridge when drying meats. quite a usefull device.
well i learned a lot overnight . I put my brisket on about 11pm. my plan was a 8-10 hour smoke with a 3 or 4 hour rest in a cooler. Well that is not quite what happened. At 11 pm i put the brisket on Egg temp was about 280, outside temp in the upper 40's with a 15+ wind. I monitored...
most of this will be notes to myself...
captians log stardate.....
after 50 min the temp at the grate was 497F with the vents wide open. ok to much too fast i closed boththe to and bottem vents to about 1/4" open. we will where that gets us in about 20 min
that is what i am hoping for, i also picked up a SS aftermarket vent cap that is both a rain cap and a vest cap. quite nicely made!
I am hoping for long cooks with little to no fussing with the vests to maintain temps.
I stopped by the local egg shop in West Chester pa and talked to the...
well after plunking down. over $100 for a brisket at a local butcher shop (prime) i wanted to test drive the egg a bit, so i just loaded it up with charcoal and large chunks of cherry that i had from a tree that went down last winter. just want to see how lomg a load of charcoal will last and...
my sams club, chester county pa, had xl green eggs all summer for $1200, with nest and shelves. they never sold. i walked in last sunday and they were marked down to $800(missing vent cap) and $900 complete. needless to say i scored the $800 one, purchased the after market cap on amazon for $38...
Well as usual once things come off the smoker our thoughts move from forum posts to eating so this post is kind of late. This is more the after match of the smoke than the results. The biggest problem with a very successful smoke is that people have a tendency not to eat the side dishes. Which...
time to steam, took the 6 half slabs put them into a foil pan with the 8oz of apple juice bourbon and kumquat liquor. and in for a 2 hour steam bath.
since the amazn pellet smoker we still going I decided to put a couple of lamb Marquez sausages I made in to cold smoke while the ribs went...
Forgot to note, Using the 3-2-1 method with the liquid being 50% apple juice 25% kumquat liquor and 25% bourbon. I have done 50% 50% apple bourbon before with great success. I had a bottle of the kumquat liquor in the basement from a trip to Greece back in 2004, and we just never drank much...
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