Lots of Qview for our big Memorial day smoke.

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rbranstner

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My brother wl_kb3 came to town for the weekend and we fired up my smoke shack and filled it with meat. It was a long day of smoking as we got a bit of a late start. The meat went on the smoker at 8:30 AM and we didn't get done with pulling and packaging it until 2 AM. We ended up throwing on 5 butts, 2 chuckies and a full packer brisket. We also threw a few stuffed burgers on for lunch yesterday. This was the first time that I have tried a picnic roast butt and also the first time I tried not foiling a butt. I have not eaten the pulled pork yet to see if there is a big difference in taste between the foiled vs. non foiled but I think I will keep foiling in the future as the 4 foiled ones pulled like a dream and the non foiled one was a bit tougher. It still pulled ok it just wasn't any where as easy as the foiled one. I did foil the one butt and let it rest in the cooler before we pulled it. Well here is our qview.

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The Brisket.

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We tried out a different marinade for the brisket.

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The 5 butts.

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The two chuckies.

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I tried a marinade for the chuckies that my buddy gave me for a brisket. I don't think I will use this again as its made for doing a brisket in the oven and giving it a fake smoke flavor. The marinade has liquid smoke added. Still tastes good but there is no need for liquid smoke when I am putting it in the smoker.

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Its the next morning and its time to get the rubs on the meat and get them into the smoker.

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Brisket ready for the smoker.

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All on the smoker.

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The smoker.

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Some stuffed burgers for lunch.

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Chuckie all rested and pulled like a dream. I normally slice them but this one was so tender there was no way you could slice it.

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The point of the brisket pulled like a dream as well. We were going to make burnt ends but my brother decided he wanted to try pulling it.

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Here is the brisket.

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One of the butts after the bone was pulled out.

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Nice and clean.

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All pulled.

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Well you get the idea. Thanks for looking at our Qview.
 
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Thanks for providing the great qvue, plus reviews of what ya used and what was liked/disliked about each one. I'm digging your smokehouse, big time!!! Nice work on all the food!
 
Wow it all looks great nice job
 
Great Job RB & Bro!

No meat is safe when you two get together!!!!

BTW: How's the ankle?

Bearcarver
 
Great Job RB & Bro!

No meat is safe when you two get together!!!!

BTW: How's the ankle?

Bearcarver
The ankle is still sore and my whole foot is black and blue but I managed to hobble around all weekend.

We also made my brother a UDS so he is happy. This was the first really big load of meat I have done on this smoker except for our venison sausage and I learned a lot about how the smoker cooks. I have to remember to rotate the meat ever couple of hours so it gets done evenly. We had issues with one side of the meat being 10 degrees or more hotter than the other side. The new Instant read thermometer I got this week was a life savor its a MUST HAVE when doing large amounts of meat.

 
 
Great looking smoke good pictures and WOW what a neat smoke shack...

Are there picture or how to some where on the forum??

good work, wish i was near to MN    LOL
 
It all looked great love your smoker, it is so BIG  inside lots of room! Nice workmanship as well
Thanks. After that smoke I learned a lot and need to change/add a few things. I need to get more grates. I will probably insert more grates inbetween the ones I have. I need to come up with a better way to catch juices because my grates are too far apart and a lot of it dripped to the bottom of the smoker, I need to put a better floor in it so when the juices do spill to the bottom it won't hurt it. Right now I have a piece of metat but there is some wood exposed and its not good to have the drippings falling on that so it will rot also a bit of a fire hazard.
 
Pretty sweet!  Nice to have the room for a lot of meat, huh?  It's just as easy to tend a smoker for one roast as it is for 5 - 10, so might as well fill er up and have great food all week!  Enjoy!!
 
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