Early Bird Niner Butt

[jaxgatorz]

Great game and great meal !!

 

[civilsmoker]

Not a gamer but nice game on the pork!

 

[SmokinVOLfan]

Hell yeah Ray that butt looks great! I need to try my hand at homemade buns sometime they look really good. Know we were talking about it in another thread but great games over the weekend! Gonna have to pull out the big guns for the packers game...brisket maybe? Bird dog is some good stuff!

 

[sawhorseray]

Thanks, we really enjoyed it all. The buns were my best effort ever, learn a little something new all the time. What set the pulled pork apart from any other I've ever done had to be Chef Jimmy's finishing sauce, really brought out some deep flavor. Boy howdy, was that Bird Dog ever smooth! I don't use ice or soda pop with liquor and that was some fine sippin' whisky. The bottle didn't last too long, it's back to Evan Williams for me. A brisket on my offset would just take too darned long to be ready for a game, I'd have to start at nine o'clock the night before and stay up tending the fire, too dammed old to be doing that kind of stuff. I'm starting to think a couple racks of spares or maybe some beef ribs for next Sunday, who knows. RAY

 

[Teal101]

Oh man that is fantastic, especially those buns! Whats the recipe on the finishing sauce?

 

[sawhorseray]

Oh man that is fantastic, especially those buns! Whats the recipe on the finishing sauce?

Here ya go! RAY

https://www.smokingmeatforums.com/threads/jjs-finishing-sauce-awesome.122319/

 

[tallbm]

After reading his book last month I learned a ton about heat controlling a offset smoker. One little sentence, "I always smoke with the door open" changed everything for me. Now I get the vents set after I have a nice bed of coals and don't have to touch them again. Heat control is established by the firebox door and how far it's opened, very seldom closed all the way, no more bad smoke. His book was kind of a manifesto for guys with offsets, somewhere in there I remember reading he had no use for electric or pellet smokers. I'm not using charcoal in my SQ36 now either, straight wood. I learned a lot and it's a great read, but I think it's just for folks with offset smokers. RAY

Ah good to know. Yeah that book was a great read!