Bone-In New York’s Over Cherry Wood the “X-Fire Way”

[Colin1230]

Great cook and great pics! Many thanks for sharing, civil.

 

[Winterrider]

Beautiful . . .

 

[seenred]

"The grates embrace the flames as a partner of love!"

Did I wander into a poetry slam?? Oh man, that's some impressive use of the language, right there, Brother! You're a wordsmith!

Seriously, Dude, that cooker is a thing of beauty! Very nicely done on the steaks and taters! I'd founder myself on that plate!

Points for the cooker, for the steaks, and for the write-up!

Red

 

[SmokinAussie]

Yeah bro... you are seriously in love with that thing. Have you put a ring on it yet?

Hell of a cooker. Man those steaks are amazing.

Bill

 

[Chris_in_SoCal]

I am so glad to see that you got the beast up and running. I knew every picture well since I have a similar cooker.

Next up for you should be skirt steak or flap steak. These two really make you love how well you can make meat taste.

One thing to make it even better is after the charcoal is going is to add wood splits on top. Believe me once you do that you will never go back to charcoal alone.

 

[schlotz]

Befitting cook in the new digs Cortney. Glad to see you're back at it. Well deserved after all that work.

 

[civilsmoker]

That's a really nice setup you got there and the food looks even better!

Thanks SA! The setup has been a long time plan that finally happened! That makes it a celebration each time it is used!

Looks like it works well! Steaks and plate looks awesome!

Thanks Sandy, and the X-Fire got lots of use before we moved to a place I could roll it out to use so had some time with it to "practice"

Great pics! Glad to see you cooking on that beast again! I know it must be satisfying after all the work to build the cover for it. And it seems I missed how this grill functions until just now. Cool concept on the grate.

Thanks swamp! I'm really happy to be cooking on it again, and yes immense satisfaction. I have a build thread on it. https://www.smokingmeatforums.com/threads/the-x-fire-grill.284462/

I still need to fab up the stainless round rods, and the smoking drip pans, (have the materials in the garage) and plan to do that in the next 2 months as I am welding up some matching metal posts for our covered porch. We are adding matching privacy and wind slats as well.

As an FYI, the V grates reduce flare up and create a mild smoke flavor vs a "hard char". The round rods will create the "hard char" flavor....ie each will have a flavor profile purpose....

 

[civilsmoker]

Great cook and great pics! Many thanks for sharing, civil.

Thanks and you are welcome, Colin! Glad I could share on the SMF!!!

Beautiful . . .

Thanks Winter!

"The grates embrace the flames as a partner of love!"

Did I wander into a poetry slam?? Oh man, that's some impressive use of the language, right there, Brother! You're a wordsmith!

Seriously, Dude, that cooker is a thing of beauty! Very nicely done on the steaks and taters! I'd founder myself on that plate!

Points for the cooker, for the steaks, and for the write-up!

Red

you got me..... peps say engineers are dry and non-cultured.... "me" says otherwise....

And much appreciated! Since my son and me built it together as his civil learning project in High School it has meaning with it and that translates to the food!

 

[civilsmoker]

Yeah bro... you are seriously in love with that thing. Have you put a ring on it yet?

Hell of a cooker. Man those steaks are amazing.

Bill

Bill you have NO idea....LOL no ring....yet.... but I do have ringed hooks to hold things above the flames, does that count? Its a lot of fun to cook on it! The inside of the chamber was 400 degrees before I put the steaks on. A fire that that creates some serous heat!

I am so glad to see that you got the beast up and running. I knew every picture well since I have a similar cooker.

Next up for you should be skirt steak or flap steak. These two really make you love how well you can make meat taste.

One thing to make it even better is after the charcoal is going is to add wood splits on top. Believe me once you do that you will never go back to charcoal alone.

Thaks Chris, and if you remember in the way back memory, you provided some measurements for the v-grate as I was planning the build, so your cooker has a "connection" Thanks again.

.....Skirt steak..... my fridge knows its gonna happen soon!

Oh you mean like this......

The coals are just a bed to help with the base heat and make the splits burn clean and hot. I ran the coper pot this way and have always use splits for flavor in the X-Fire. I have been drying an apricot tree for about 4 years now that will be consumed as splits after my cherry is gone....

Befitting cook in the new digs Cortney. Glad to see you're back at it. Well deserved after all that work.

Many thanks schlotz! I'm glad too and with the fall approaching it will be perfect weather to hang out by the fire!

 

[DRKsmoking]

The whole..... fire - cook/smoke - plating.
Just a work of art , sorry I mean Courtney

Its a shame that you don't really get excited about using the X-fire.

Really though, beautiful machine.

David

 

[Chris_in_SoCal]

I also start with coals before the splits myself. Today was the first day in over two months that it got down to the 80's. It's been so hot. I had to make up for it today.

EDIT: Opps! I never clicked on Post Reply. This was supposed to be posted last night.

 

[civilsmoker]

The whole..... fire - cook/smoke - plating.
Just a work of art , sorry I mean Courtney

Its a shame that you don't really get excited about using the X-fire.

Really though, beautiful machine.

David

Much appreciated David! Oh yea not excited at all.....NOT AT ALL!!! LOL

I also start with coals before the splits myself. Today was the first day in over two months that it got down to the 80's. It's been so hot. I had to make up for it today.

EDIT: Opps! I never clicked on Post Reply. This was supposed to be posted last night.

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Yea that's magic, I believe @JIMSMOKES is doing the same is his new grill as he posted such in one of his threads. We just dropped to the low 80s high 70s this last week, finally working after "work" hours is possible again! That includes cooking to!

 

[flatbroke]

Looks perfect