Do any of you smoke your products ahead of time ,then reheat? If so what are some of the things that you do.
I normally do all night cooks . Trying to find some time to sleep :)
Hi there and welcome!!
Oh yeah, absolutely.
Mostly whole packer brisket, pork butts, and sometimes ribs. They are all easy and taste great reheated. I vac seal mine and reheat in the microwave still in the sealed bag. Tastes fine.
I have done smoked chicken breast and it isn't as fool proof where the trick is to not reheat too hard. So I usually microwave it in vac sealed bag as well but I try not to overheat it so I heat in smaller increments until it is heated enough to eat and not much hotter. In this case it's fine. If overheated well, it's chicken breast so it get's less tasty the hotter it gets.
Dark meat, shredded whole chicken, turkey meat (after holidays) all do well reheated as well the same way. Turkey breast is the same as chicken breast where you need to watch out how you reheat it.
Finally any white meat chicken/turkey that has been cured with cure #1 is more forgiving in reheating than non cured white meat. Dark meat is fine no matter cure #1 or not.
As others have stated, the BBQ always tastes better to me a day or 2 after it's been cooked.
Also with briskets slice then vac seal. Pork butts, shred or cut in chunks then vac seal. It comes out better than whole vac sealed, reheating and dealing with later. Seems odd but that's been my experience :)
So in all you should be ok.