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  1. crankybuzzard

    Show me your poor man's Cambro. What do you rest your meats in?

    This old thing has probably held well over 1000 pounds of meat over the years, won't hold ice, but rests meats well. What do you use?
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    Beautiful Sunday here

    Got up at 4:30, fired up the Weber kettle with a snake, got the brisket on at 6, and now i'm letting a pot of pozole finish simmering for brunch! Pics later for sure. I may even have a video or 2. What's everyone else got going on? Edit to add: I have the InkBird wireless in the brisket as...
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    Dippit Sammichs anyone?

    Last weekend we smoked a prime rib and it was awesome, but as usual, when smoking/grilling for 2, there's always something leftover. We usually share our extra smoked meats with our neighbors, but NOT PR... We vacuum packed the leftover PR and refrigerated it until this morning. I sliced the...
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    Tried out the new InkBird today, with a prime rib

    I got the InkBird INT-11P-B wireless thermometer in the mail yesterday and tried it out today. The bride and I decided not to have our usual ham and opted for a small 2 bone prime rib. I seasoned the roast early this morning and let it rest in the refrigerator until it went on the smoker at...
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    A couple of ribeyes after a dry spell

    Ok, I know, I haven't posted ANYTHING in a bit, but between seed starting, planting, and taking care of neighbors, I've been too whooped to get anything on the grill or smoker. BUT, yesterday the bride and I both decided that we needed a steak. She pulled 2 of our brangus ribeyes out of the...
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    The bride pulled out a couple of steaks for "brunch" tomorrow

    As the title says, my bride pulled a couple of Brangus steaks from the freezer and told me that she wanted me to make them for brunch tomorrow. She then asked if I would dry brine them overnight. Yes, that's the way she thinks, some here can vouch for that. So I took the 2 ribeyes, after...
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    Grow your own ribeye!

    Most all of my life our family had cattle. I swore that I was done with them as soon as I left home. Well, not so much... Even after moving away from home I would come out and help dad with the cattle and his damn goats. So I was still stuck with working cattle... Sadly, we had to get dad...
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    Moldy tortillas didn't ruin my fajitas!

    I had an extra flank steak and decided that since I was working on some projects in the shop that I would pan cook the steak and sautée the veggies in the shop while I worked. While I was cooking and working, the bride came out and informed me that the "fresh" flour tortillas that we got from...
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    My view from my new cooking spot

    For those that are unaware, 2021 SUCKED for me and the bride and we decided that we weren't going to wait for retirement to get our place in the country. So we moved into the middle of 15 acres in early 2022 and haven't looked back. In town I was relegated to using a big smoker in the driveway...
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    Stuffed Flank Steak

    Well, as promised, here is my take on a stuffed flank steak! Life tried to get in the way when our bee keeper got stuck in the pasture and had to leave his truck overnight, but I got busy after we got him out today. I didn't get any pictures of the butterflied steak, or the toppings on it...
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    Do you have a snack stick locker?

    We all have friends that know that we make sausage and snack sticks. Most all of us have friends that come over now and then that are comfortable enough to open the refrigerator to get a beverage, or get into our SNACK STICKS! Several months ago I came up with a snack stick "locker" for the...
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    NEVER announce out loud that you have a free weekend!

    So, last week I stated on here that I had a free weekend coming up and wanted some inspiration to smoke/grill something different. LOTS of folks here came through with some awesome ideas, and I had a stuffed flank steak on the rotisserie planned down to the final plate shots on Sunday...
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    I need inspiration...FREE weekend, I want to smoke/cook something different

    This weekend is absolutely FREE of any obligations for me and the bride! NOTHING is planned, and we don't have to do anything other than normal farm chores. That's a major change for us, so I want to take advantage of it! However, I do have a local couple that want some chicken and cow poop...
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    Made some beef tallow

    I saved the fat trimmings from the last 2 briskets I made so that I could replenish our beef tallow supply. This is a really easy thing to do, and we love using it in place of some oils in recipes. Now this may not be the way you do it, but it's how I've done it for years. I start off by...
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    Game time snacks.... What are you munching on?

    It's just me and the bride at our house, so I'm in the shop watching the game and checking out SMF while she does some girly stuff in the house... Snacks for me are some summer sausage I made a few weeks ago and some cold smoked Swiss cheese from last February. Might be some Maker's involved...
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    The Gods of smoke are on my side, so far... Pics now

    So, the bride's grandmother (Memaw) turns 100 years old tomorrow, and of course, there is a big gathering planned. Well, my brother in law said he would pay for a local food truck operator to come on site at the community center and do a fish fry since Memaw loves her some fried catfish. Well...
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    Where are the briskets in North Texas?

    This weekend is my bride's grandmother's 100th birthday and there is quite the celebration planned! Well, my brother in law decided that he would pay to have a fish fry for the event, but quite a few people in the family don't care for fish and I was "voluntold" to make a couple of briskets and...
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    Talk to me about Santa Maria style grills

    I've seen a lot of them on the internet, played with a few that were just doing burgers, and for some reason I now think I need to get one or build one. Other than tri-tip, which seems to be the popular cut for these grills, what else have the SMF folks made with one?
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    Frozen steak? No problem

    Yesterday was my Friday so I had a beverage or 2 and decided I wanted a steak. Well, they were all frozen, so I cooked one anyway. I was out in the shop so the hot plate and skillet were pulled out, added a little butter to the pan, once it was hot I added the frozen steak. @Retired Spook...
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    Dry ice to cool brine/cure solution

    Hey folks, need to get scientific here... We have a new member to the group @hickorysmokes and he sadly suffered what many of us have before, and that's having to toss a creation that he cured. In this situation it was a ham that he was wet curing and it looks like it suffered from "bone sour"...
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