Hi Guys
I have been playing with my Harks Tri Fire offset for a few months now and I am getting the hang of temperature control and smoke levels. I shot a few rabbits up at the farm a few weeks back and decided I would have a go at smoking one of them.
I got a recipe for chicken or rabbit brine from here and made it up and popped the rabbit in there for 48 hrs, was going to be overnight but i got side tracked, never mind i did get back to it. haven't posted before apart from saying hello, so i hope it works out
The Rabbit out of the brine and jointed, the flecks are thyme and spices
Decided to fit them with bacon coats
I had a couple of turkey wings so i hit them with a chipotle and lime rub
Built a square from heatbeads and filled the centre with the bits of limp charcoal left in the bottom of the bag, I then placed some split pieces of bottle brush which catch fire and bring the heat up quicker
My set up
the chimney with 50 /50 heat beads and lump charcoal
and the quest begins
A warm day in Perth my cooking box is already running 140 without the fire
My secret weapon a Banksia nut, gives a nice smoke over a long period
Temperature was up to 225 - 240 so in they go
The TBS doing its magic, I kept them around the 250 mark for a couple of hours and then took the temp up to 350 for the last 20 minutes to crisp up the wings
Job done and turned out awesome, rabbit was moist thanks to the brine and bacon, flavour was great will definitely do this again, although it did use up a fair bit of ice cold beer!!! not drop was spilt during the making of this
I have been playing with my Harks Tri Fire offset for a few months now and I am getting the hang of temperature control and smoke levels. I shot a few rabbits up at the farm a few weeks back and decided I would have a go at smoking one of them.
I got a recipe for chicken or rabbit brine from here and made it up and popped the rabbit in there for 48 hrs, was going to be overnight but i got side tracked, never mind i did get back to it. haven't posted before apart from saying hello, so i hope it works out
The Rabbit out of the brine and jointed, the flecks are thyme and spices
Decided to fit them with bacon coats
I had a couple of turkey wings so i hit them with a chipotle and lime rub
Built a square from heatbeads and filled the centre with the bits of limp charcoal left in the bottom of the bag, I then placed some split pieces of bottle brush which catch fire and bring the heat up quicker
My set up
the chimney with 50 /50 heat beads and lump charcoal
and the quest begins
A warm day in Perth my cooking box is already running 140 without the fire
My secret weapon a Banksia nut, gives a nice smoke over a long period
Temperature was up to 225 - 240 so in they go
The TBS doing its magic, I kept them around the 250 mark for a couple of hours and then took the temp up to 350 for the last 20 minutes to crisp up the wings
Job done and turned out awesome, rabbit was moist thanks to the brine and bacon, flavour was great will definitely do this again, although it did use up a fair bit of ice cold beer!!! not drop was spilt during the making of this
