independence day 2009 - beef and pork on the SnP

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tasunkawitko

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looking forward to a good Q session tomorrow - here's what we got for the main courses:

beef:

an all-beef swiss-n-mushroom fatty made from some very lean local burger (this might have been a mistake - it was a little difficult to roll). the filling is composed of sauteed mushroom, onion and garlic in a little butter and olive oil with marsala wine and a dash of lemon juice. this was cooked down thick and spread out on the swiss cheese.

an almost-three-pound boneless chuckie - haven't done one of these before so i m going to treat it like a cross between a brisket and a prok shoulder.

two good-sized racks of beef back ribs, portioned out a bit. these look to be meatier than the ones i had been getting before. these will not be foiled.

all beef (except the fatty) was slathered with mustard and then all beef (including the fatty got a generous rub of worcestershire pepper and durkee's kansas city style steak seasoning. this stuff consists of what appears to be sea or kosher salt, cracked black pepper, granulated garlic and onion, and crushed red pepper flakes.

pork:

a slab of spares cut into three portions. this looks to be good-quality stuff and not the normal injected stuff i am usually forced to use! these will not be foiled.

5 good-sized cunks of country style ribs, about as long as a keyboard up to the arrow keys and as wide as the three rows of letters each. this also looks to be good meaty stuff but it also has a portion of skin and fat cap attached. they are boneless and i will probably do some form of 3/2/1 with them.

i am also considering getting the fixin's tomorrow morning for a simple sausage and cheddar breakfast fatty.

i am curently planning to spritz all meats, beef and pork, with a 50/50 mix of captain morgan and apple juice!

other:

i am prepared to do 20 ABTs f demand calls for it, but do not plan to do them at this time since the people who appreciate what they have to offer are quite few in number (me and 2 of my boys) tomorrow.

after seeing rivet's pterodactyl eggs, i'll probbaly toss a few of these on!

i hope to drop everything on the SnP by 0900 tomorrow. i am guesstimating a maximum of 6 hours for everything but realize it might be less than that. am concenred about the chuckie and that it might take longer time. any estimates would be appreciated and i will try to put that on alone for a couple hours if necessary to get it done at the same time as everything else. another option might be to cook it closer to the firebox. i am able to even temps out pretty well across the cmoking chamber, but there's still some variation and naturally it is warmer at the "west" end.

looking forward to a great day tomorrow! will also be sure to post as much q-view as possible. comments, suggetions etc. are always welcome!
 
Sounds like a great smoke planned Tas. Glad I don't have to get things going until about 4 hours after your 9am start.
Can't offer any relevant advice of the chuckie since I have only done them twice, and the first time was kind of meh. Second was good but don't remember how I did it exactly.
3 am time for bed.
I wish you the best of smokes tomorrow.
Happy 4th all.
 
Looks like you have the right plan of attack! I wish I were around to help attack that feast!
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Really looking forward to the pics....
 
A mighty feast for a mighty holiday!! Sounds like some good food is to be had by all, hope we get to see some pics so we can drool too!!
 
as usual, got a late start - meat was on @ 1015 this morning ~ here's what we got for now:

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farthest west is the beef fattie (i have concernens about this) - then moving east we have the country ribs, the spare ribs, the chuckie and the beef back ribs. when everything shrinks up a bit i'll add the pterodactyl eggs and also a couple of dinner sausages. i decided we might as well have the chuckie tomorrow (pulled BBQ beef sandwiches). so will cook it till it's done and then let it rest, then pull
 
at 1100 i put the eggs on here and there - found room for them after all! right before noon, i figured the mushroom/swiss fatty would be done - checked temperature and it was 155 degrees, which is just fine considering it is all beef. it did blow out a little but it wasn't too bad, all things considered - being very lean beef, i was expecting it to anyway.

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inside was a bit sloppy but it tasted great! made a very fine lunch. i strongly recommed a combination of beef, mushroom, swiss, onions, garlic and teriyaki ~

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while the fatty was resting, i took the opportunity to add some lump and spritz with a 50/50 captian morgan/apple juice spritz i also rearranged stuff around as quickly as possible:

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Hey Tas~ wow! That's some nice looking load you have going on inside your SnP~ way to go.

I called Wendy & Albert to the computer to look at your Fattie. They were droolin! Looked very, very tasty and they were surprised it was beef. They liked the idea and kinda hinted we need to make one too
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. Blowout or not, your fattie was mighty fine.

Very nice ribs and chuck too, you gotta let us know how they turned out- with more q-vue of course. Kids got a kick out of you makin' Pterodactyl Eggs too! Hope you all like them.

Good smokes and TBS to you, buddy!

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everything's looking real good - it's taking a bit long to get up to 250 with this much food, but once it does, it holds for a good long while.

rivet - i remember you mentioning that your yolks are turning green. i might be wrong, but i seem to remember that you can prevent this by giving the eggs a 10-minute ice water bath immediatly off the boiling water. might give it a try - to me, they all taste the same, but if people are expecting yellow yolks, this might do it....then again, they are pterodactyl eggs after all! ;)

tell the kids that the fatty was great with beef - i do recommend fattier beef as this was very, very lean and was a bit difficult to roll because of that. also, as you probably know from doing yous, the filling needs to be as "not-liquidy" as possible. mine was a little too moist and this also caused problems when rolling. flavor was great! one more comment, it was just a little bit too garlicky. i used three cloves aof sauteed garlic in the filling, but they were very big cloves. i recommend three normal-sized cloves or two big cloves.

going to go practice guitar for church services tomorrow - #2 son will keep temps between 230 and 250 and also will spritz/rotate/photograph around 1330/1345, depending on when he needs to add lump. hope things stay alright while i am gone!
 
got1 - i remember some of your smokes and i also remembering wishing that I could smoke like that ~ it's all good!

1345 - added some lump and hickory, sprtized and threw on the sausages. pterodactyl eggs are off the smoker and chillin in the fridge until dinnertime. everythings looking good although amybe a little darker than i would have expected.

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1500 - another addition of lump, spritz and rotate. things atarting to look and feel done - moving it over to the far end to leave thicker cuts toward the firebox - things going well

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Buddy, it looks like you all's gonna have a feast! Woowee....carnivore heaven~! Man, can't beat that smoke, you are doing it right. Looking outstanding so far, and those sausages look great, too. What kind are they?

I wish I could get some long ones like that around here, so I could slice them up after smoking and put them into some Spanish recipes for casseroles and such.

Good deal!
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rivet - sausages are just some new dinner sausages from schwan's - nothing too special but i hadn't tried them yet and figured smoked would be the way to go!

1615 - everything's pretty well done except the chuckie, which is in the 180s. i'll pull everything off and leave the chuckie to finish up!

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Now that a feast fit for everybody but me. Now there's something really wrong with that tasunkawitko ain't there? No great job on a fabulous smoke.
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hey, everyone - the chuckie hit 197 at the same time the temps in the smoker started to fall off (used ONE 9-lb bag of lump plus a coffeecan-full of briquettes for this smoke), so i foiled it up and put it in towels and cooler. not much to photograph, just looks like a small black lump, but it sure smells good!

rivet, i did get a picture of everything piled up on the platter. it was an impressive pile but rather unsightly in its blackness. here it is for posterity:

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now, don't let the blackness fool you, everyone - there was no burned taste and nothing was charred. in fact, this was some very good barbecue. what you see on that platter is a pile of dinner sausage (rivet, these came from schwan's, but hillshire farm or even wal-mart sausages are good!) country-style ribs, pork spare ribs and beef back ribs. i tried a little of everything and there were some very good flavors. the "apple-jack" mop made for some good tastes, but the sugar also caused a lot of blackening that did not affect flavor.

the pork spare ribs were maybe a tad overdone and a bit dry, as were the thinner beef back ribs. the country style ribs and thicker beef ribs were perfect. that sausage was also very good with a "pop" every time it was bitten into and plenty of smokey juciness inside.

looking forward to pulling the chuckie tonight and mixing it with some BBQ sauce tomorrow for BBQ beef sandwiches. should be pretty good!

for sides, we kept it simple - some of melissa's homemade potato salad and some chips with 7-layer mexican dip (very good!). for dessert, my mother made an old family favorite, which is a strawberry cheesecake made from the old recipe of a family friend. the recipe can be found here for anyone interested:

http://www.baitshopboyz.com/forum/fo...s.asp?TID=6179

traditionally on the 4th of july, we make a gallon of a koolaid punch to drink. it consists of a package of lemonade koolaid and a package of lemon-lime koolaid in a gallon jar with thinly-sliced lemon and lime. when chilled it is as good as it gets!
 
Hey no worries on the color~ we all have to struggle with the ambient lighting to get the best looking q-view! You just have to find the correct angle to minimize that. Your food looks excellent and sure liked your description of the sausage casing's pop.....perfect!

You sure put your SnP through its paces today and showed another reason why its a great smoker to have!

Glad you liked the pterodctyl eggs too
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