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  1. pi guy

    Salt/Sodium in Homemade Rubs

    Hey everyone, looking for some direction. Doc recently told me (although I already knew it, but put it off for too many years unfortunately) that I have extremely high blood pressure. Got on the meds and I'm hoping that helps me; just started last week. I love to smoke and try new stuff as...
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    Throwdown Entry - Belgian Beer-Cheese Soup With Fresh Smoked Sausage In A Homemade Pretzel Bread Bowl

    Again I'll say how cool it was to participate in my first ever throwdown. Didn't bring home that beautiful knife (man that thing is sweet!), or the other great prizes, but the winners were more deserving than me for sure, great entries!! My inspiration for my soup was an appetizer called...
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    Thanksgiving Leftovers Quesedilla

    Happy Thanksgiving everyone. I'm thankful for the support so many of you give to folks like me, who are adventurous enough to try new things with food, but need a little direction. Did a traditional Thanksgiving (on Friday) this year for only 7 people so had a lot of ledtovers. Decided to do a...
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    Best Memphis BBQ on or near Beale St.?

    Wife and I are headed to Memphis tomorrow for a couple days. Never been there, but as they're obviously known for BBQ, I plan on eating a lot of it!! Can anyone suggest the best place(s) on, or right near Beale St.? We're staying right there so looking for walkable places for great BBQ, brews...
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    Store bought corned beef smoke

    I'm going to smoke a little corned beef (about 2.5 lbs) today. Bought the corned beef around St. Pattys time and froze it. Thawed it out over the last couple of days, and today I soaked it for an hour, patted it dry, and it's now in the fridge uncovered. Smoker's set to 275. I want it to eat...
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    Picture Quality on YoutubeTV

    Does anyone else use YoutubeTV with a large high def flat screen? I just bought an 85" Samsung QLED with 4K upscaling (I don't pretend to know all of what that means, but have some idea). YoutubeTV looks horrible on it, however all of the other apps look perfect (Disney+, Hulu, Netfilx...
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    My brisket (with pics)

    Ok, I pulled my brisket at 10:30 this morning, wrapped in 2 layers of foil and towels and put in a cooler. It's now 1:00 pm, but we're not ready to eat for at least a couple of hours. What should I do??
  8. pi guy

    Fed up!

    I'm getting to the point where I can't deal with my MES40 anymore. I'm so tired of babysitting it to add chips every 30 minutes. I use an AMNPS, but getting that thing to keep smoking and not go out is a chore unto itself. Love smoking, but this is making me crazy. Currently have a brisket in it...
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    Brisket advice please

    It's been a long time since I smoked a brisket and to be honest I don't remember how I did it before (my one and only time I think). Local place had what I thought was a great deal on whole brisket at $3.98/lb. Couldn't pass it up, so I'm throwing it in the freezer and will bring it out the...
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    Son's Grad Party - Say A Prayer For Me!

    A while back a bunch of you were VERY helpful answering some questions I had about pork butts for my son's grad party on the 16th of this month. Since then I've been hard at work trying to perfect the process. Well, we're a week away and this has snowballed into us doing just about every part...
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    Trial run of Pork Butt to do for a crowd in 3 months with pics

    Thanks to those of you who commented on my question about Pork butts for a crowd. I'm doing a trial run tonight/tomorrow to see how to best do Pork butts ahead of time for over 100 people. For this smoke I'm doing a 10# butt on my MES40. Planning on higher heat (thanks for the suggestions)...
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    Shredding Pork in a Kitchen Aid?

    Has anyone else done this? Can you do this and still have some chunks? I don't like it when the pork is shredded too fine...
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    Need advice please - Pulled pork for many people

    I'm considering doing pulled pork for my son's graduation party in July. We're not positive how many people we'll be having, but estimating between 100-150. I have a few questions I'm hoping some of you may be able to answer... 1. About how many butts should I plan on for this amount of...
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    Any thoughts on this?

    So I'm going to smoke 2 turkeys tomorrow. Turkeys have been brining, sides are being pre-made, house is clean, beers are cold. Tomorrow is supposed to be cold and rainy/snowy here and I don't have anything to cover the smoker with. I thought if I kept the box in the garage with the small door...
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    Major Screw Up on Cheese!

    I've smoked cheese a few times before and had nothing but great results. Saturday however I messed up big time! I had 3 trays of assorted cheeses in the smoker (got a little too comfortable and greedy perhaps), using my AMNPS only. Temp outside was around 50 degrees and I had cherry wood...
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    Going big for Thanksgiving - Tips please!

    This year we're hosting Thanksgiving, for about 20 people. My initial thought is to do two whole turkeys, maybe 10-15 lbs each (??). I have many questions, so I'm going to do a test run next Monday on one or maybe even both deep fried and smoked versions (I'd like to do both on Thanksgiving...
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    Converting a Jenn-Air (Nexgrill) grill from NG to propane

    Hi everyone, hoping someone might be able to answer this. We just moved to a new house. Our old house had a natural gas line out to the deck for my Jenn-Air 720-0100-NG natural gas grill. I bought it maybe 12 years ago? Anyways, there is no gas line outside the new house and I got a quote...
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    Smoking a Turkey Breast Tenderloin

    Hey everyone, happy new year! I'm planning on doing two of these tomorrow. It's such a lean piece of meat I'm worried about drying it out. Has anyone smoked one of these? Any idea on approximate time? Should I go with 225 smoke temp? Thanks!
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    Looking for advice on beef short ribs

    Never done beef ribs before, but have wanted to for a long time. In fact I've never eaten them before! Wife found them today for $5.84/lb and picked up a 5 lb package. Is that a good price? My questions are: How many ribs per person typically? Smoke, grill or slow cooker? Or some combo...
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  20. pi guy

    First smoked Meatloaf with pics!

    Nothing fancy, but this was so incredible I had to share. I did this a few weeks ago but got busy and couldn't post until now. My wife mixed up her go-to recipe for meatloaf, which is great in the oven alone. But in the smoker?! She said we'll never do meatloaf in the oven again! Formed the...
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