Clod Heaven

[billy brown]

Cool and rainy in our part of Ontario yesterday so had to keep the old WSM inside for the whole cook. I had my butcher square up an 8 lb chunk of clod to help with even cooking and seasoned it with kosher salt and coarse pepper. Full water pan and cherry for smoke, the temp bounced around a bit but spent most of the time around 240. Started mopping after 4 hours with a redeye mop recipe from Paul Kirk. Turned it fat side down for a couple of hours more until IT was 160 then wrapped in butcher paper until up to 191. Rested for an hour then sliced it up.
Extremely tender and moist, not too smokey. Served with a mustard beer sauce and sweet onion. The more clod I smoke the less inclined I am to do brisket, we just love them clods!

 

[SmokinVOLfan]

Man that looks good! Points for sure. The more I see people smoke them the more I want to try a clod. Not a common cut around here to get though

 

[motocrash]

Giddyup,clod bustin' Cowboy!

 

[Boardtowndawg]

What exactly is a clod? Never heard of that cut before.

 

[billy brown]

It's part of the shoulder and contains a mix of cuts, some real tender, others not, a fair amount of fat. All in all a pretty forgiving hunk of meat to smoke.

 

[disco]

Beautiful beef, Bro! Big like!

 

[Boardtowndawg]

It's part of the shoulder and contains a mix of cuts, some real tender, others not, a fair amount of fat. All in all a pretty forgiving hunk of meat to smoke.

Nice! Looks great!

 

[billy brown]

Thanks, everyone and now looking for a little advice here. For an upcoming party I'm planning to do beef clod and wonder what kind of time adjustment I would be looking at. So an 8 lb clod was about a 9 hour cook and I'd like to do two 10 lb clods, one on each rack. 10 lb is about the biggest I can fit on my 18.5" WSM. Any idea how much more time they would take vs one 8 pounder?
Thanks in advance.

 

[kawboy]

Looks good, but not sure about the hockey bag so close to the meat! I've had many years of hockey bag stink.

 

[billy brown]

Yeah, Kawboy, come to think of it I did some chicken thighs last week and all I could taste was elbow pads.
Gotta move that hockey bag.

 

[tropics]

Nice job on the Clod.
Richie

 

[ab canuck]

Now that looks great, Definite like for me. My brother and sister in law have been talking about doing one for yrs, I may just have to do this and invite them over and get a little family competition going. yummm

 

[crazymoon]

BB, No idea on times for a bigger clod but yours looks delicious !

 

[ravenclan]

Is there another name for this cut of meat?