My diy smoker first cook (vid)

[Tommie_a]

Morning all! Well it’s a beautiful Sunday here in the Uk, got up at 6.30 and got the fire lit, smoking a gammon for Sunday lunch, I took on everyone’s advice from before (thanks to all!), tried a few different offsetting techniques and ended up just putting a water pan directly under the meat, Im getting a steady 120c for about 3 hours now, using the minion method.

smoking with apple and hickory. We’re about half way though (35c)

Little video below. Have a great day all!

 

[Tommie_a]

Turned out well! Did a little brown sugar/honey/mustard/cinnamon and apple cider vinegar glaze for the last 20 mins and wrapped it

 

[DRKsmoking]

Had to look up Gammon, " cured pork leg " is what I found
It looks really good and the brown sugar/honey/mustard/cinnamon and apple cider vinegar glaze
Sounds good

David

 

[Tommie_a]

Had to look up Gammon, " cured pork leg " is what I found
It looks really good and the brown sugar/honey/mustard/cinnamon and apple cider vinegar glaze
Sounds good

David

Haha I forgot that’s just the British name, you can get cured/pre cooked but this was “green” (uncooked), it’s just a boneless “ham” I suppose, now that I’m comfortable with the temp control on the smoker I’ll continue with brisket next weekend

 

[chp]

Glad to hear the maiden cook for the new temp control worked out. Did you happen to do any biscuit test to see how even it is cooking?

 

[mr_whipple]

Nice! And that glaze sounds awesome.

 

[smokerjim]

Sure looks good from here

 

[Tommie_a]

Glad to hear the maiden cook for the new temp control worked out. Did you happen to do any biscuit test to see how even it is cooking?

I didn’t actually, but I used the instant read probe every now and then just out of interest and it seemed to be cooking pretty evenly all round

 

[DRKsmoking]

Haha I forgot that’s just the British name,

No problem, it is all good. I thought it looked like a ham or pork roast

And the glaze I would be all over that also.

David

 

[JLeonard]

Had to look up Gammon, " cured pork leg " is what I found
It looks really good and the brown sugar/honey/mustard/cinnamon and apple cider vinegar glaze
Sounds good

David

I did the same…and then I had to convert C to F. looks Like it turned out great! And that glaze…well it sounds like absolute perfection. Glad the cooker is doing great for you.

Jim

 

[Tommie_a]

I did the same…and then I had to convert C to F. looks Like it turned out great! And that glaze…well it sounds like absolute perfection. Glad the cooker is doing great for you.

Jim

Thanks Jim!

Yes I myself need to convert to F from now on, as I am constantly converting all the temperatures on this forum to C