How much meat will fit OKJ Highland

[Griz0146]

Hey all,

I’m planning a BBQ for next week and will need 3-4 Boston Butts. Anyone out there feel that’s too much for the Highland?

What about ribs and chicken? Feel free to share how far you’ve pushed the highland and how it turned out.

Thanks!

 

[meatallica]

Nah... you'll be fine. Just give yourself plenty of time and charcoal and/or wood. I just posted that I fit 4 racks of beef ribs on OK Joe no prob.. for being a big box store smoker, I really grown to like this thing. Just my .02

 

[radio]

The Highland is a good sized smoker, so 4 butts should fit with no problem. Unless you have tuning plates installed, I would keep them near the last half of the chamber and rotate them a couple of times so each cooks evenly. I have done 4 racks of baby backs in mine, but any more would require a rib rack. I bought mine because it holds more then the New Braunfels in my avatar, but rarely use it. The New Braunfels holds more than enough for the two of us and is much easier to manage the fire even though I have modded the OK Joe.

 

[atomicsmoke]

I did a 15-16lbs turkey in the highland not long ago. It seemed there was room for 4 more.

 

[E's Smokin]

I just did a rack of ribs, a pork loin tip, a spatchcock chicken, rib trimmings, & 6 sausages & still had room for more but I built a shelf out of old BBQ grates that sits about 4 inches above the regular grate & that worked out great
Good luck

 

[Griz0146]

Awesome! Thanks for the input. I’m using the reverse flow Hughland so I’ll see if I can comfortably squeeze a St. Louis rack in with the butts.

 

[Griz0146]

I just did a rack of ribs, a pork loin tip, a spatchcock chicken, rib trimmings, & 6 sausages & still had room for more but I built a shelf out of old BBQ grates that sits about 4 inches above the regular grate & that worked out great
Good luck

How did you set up the grate so it sits above the bottoms one?

 

[hardcookin]

Ribs & chicken take up a lot of space. You could do your butts and when they are done and resting you could smoke some chicken- only appox 2 hour smoke.

 

[Griz0146]

Ribs & chicken take up a lot of space. You could do your butts and when they are done and resting you could smoke some chicken- only appox 2 hour smoke.

Great point I’ll give that a try

 

[E's Smokin]

How did you set up the grate so it sits above the bottoms one?

I can't post pix from my iPad but if you go to my thread in blowing smoke around the smoker I had a pix of my set up

 

[wbf610]

How did you set up the grate so it sits above the bottoms one?

I use cheap elevated cooling racks when I need to fit more in my OK JOE combo.

 

[E's Smokin]

https://www.smokingmeatforums.com/attachments/img_0596-003-jpg.373707/

I tried to paste a pic of my smoke

 

[E's Smokin]

I had grates from an old grill that I had a friend cut & weld together for me, I wanted to see how they would work before I have a stronger shelf made for me, but so far it has worked well, it gives me more cooking space & different temp zones from top & bottom

 

[RiversideSm0ker]

Hey all,

I’m planning a BBQ for next week and will need 3-4 Boston Butts. Anyone out there feel that’s too much for the Highland?

What about ribs and chicken? Feel free to share how far you’ve pushed the highland and how it turned out.

Thanks!

I cooked two butts and three racks of baby backs last Sunday. I filled the entire cooking space with 15 pounds of thighs and drumsticks last Friday. You can put a lot of food in there if you want to.

George

 

[wimpy69]

Pack rat repurposing for mock up pays off every time.

 

[E's Smokin]

I don't want to high jack your thread but here are some good pix of my highland all loaded up
https://www.smokingmeatforums.com/threads/1st-cook-on-my-new-ok-joe-highland.278568/

Good luck with your smoke