First smoke on WSM QView

[avas38]

This was my first solo smoke (previously I only helped out) and my first smoke on my new smoker, an 18.5" WSM. Everything went smoothly. Thanks to everyone who gave me buying, smoking and curing advise!

I used a mix of apple and oak.

Chicken 4 hours at 225:

Bacon 2 hours at 225:

Pork Butt 12 hours at 225:

Dinner:

Shredded pork, baked potato, garlicky braised beet greens and some buttermilk rolls

 

[adiochiro3]

Nice job for the first solo flight!  Lots of great eats there!

 

[jirodriguez]

Nice job! great way to break in the WSM! That all looks great!

 

[les3176]

Nice looking plate ya did there! everything looks great!

 

[mballi3011]

Great Job there avas. You did one fine looking mess of food there. How did the bacon turn out for I have always done bacon in a slow and really low temp smoking for all I wanted was the smokey flavor and not to cook it. I wonder if you could just eat it straight now that you smoke it totally. How high did you take the bellie bacon.

 

[avas38]

Great Job there avas. You did one fine looking mess of food there. How did the bacon turn out for I have always done bacon in a slow and really low temp smoking for all I wanted was the smokey flavor and not to cook it. I wonder if you could just eat it straight now that you smoke it totally. How high did you take the bellie bacon.

Thanks! In a perfect world I would have cold smoked the bacon, but I had the smoker going and there was room so I tossed it on. Plus, I don't have a good way to cold smoke, yet. The bacon turned out nice and smokey, but it could probably have used more. I honestly don't know how high I took it, probably between 125-150. I pulled it off when it looked like it had some good smoke on it, which was about two hours.

I fried a few pieces up this morning for breakfast:

 

[beer-b-q]

Looks Great...  The bark on that butt looks great, how was it...

 

[avas38]

Looks Great...  The bark on that butt looks great, how was it...

Everything was great! I can't wait for my next smoke.

 

[SmokinAl]

Everything looks great. Gotta love that WSM!