Who's braving the cold and rolling smoke this weekend?

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InThePittBBQ

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Sep 8, 2018
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South Bend, IN
It's been unusually cold in the Midwest this week with sub zero temps on the horizon for another week or so but everyone's hungry for some BBQ and we just took delivery of our first Shirley Fabrication cooker so I got her fired up this morning thankfully I had already seasoned it.
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Pit got to temp way faster than I would have thought given the cold, got a SRF black brisket and tossed a Butterball turkey on to keep it company in the smoke.
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What you guy's cooking this weekend? Let's see some Q~View!
 
Got 2 racks of ribs and a tenderloin beef steak, thinking about doing something else on there aswell. It’s 32 here and I’ll be running a real smoker aswell. Hopefully today and maybe go fishing tomorrow
 
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Cold here in Hazel Park too, but warm compared to what its gonna be next week. Thinking of going to Costco and getting a packer brisket and tryin the brisket in a pan recipe. Maybe it will finally turn out good. I haven't had much luck with the past 5 I've cooked. Just don't end up as moist and tender as I want
 
Planned to do a batch of jerky this weekend in the MES but it will be cold and snowy, with high humidity. After giving it some thought I came up with a Plan B. I set up the old propane smoker box in the barn, put a hotplate in it and hooked up my PID controller to run at 120F. I'll do one hour at 160F in the oven and then move the jerky to the smoker box to dry. I have heat in the barn so I will be all comfy and warm and I can watch the Rolex 24 Hour on the TV machine.
 
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Got 2 racks of ribs and a tenderloin beef steak, thinking about doing something else on there aswell. It’s 32 here and I’ll be running a real smoker aswell. Hopefully today and maybe go fishing tomorrow
Yea, if there's room why not? I'm gonna smoke about 10 pounds of Keilbasa when I pull the turkey off.
 
Doing some pork tenderloins, and double smoking a ham. Wasn’t planning on anything, but the freezer door somehow was cracked open, and that stuff was partially thawed.
 
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I usually run birds in the smoke for about an hour and half and then finish them in turkey bags to get them tender and capture all the juices in the bottom of the bag.

Today's turkey did not disappoint! Man these are good swimming in the juice and pull apart tender, I'm never frying one again.
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Last night I did an overnight brisket and pulled around noon. Temps here are 10F. Supposed to get crazy cold in a few days.
 
If I had a new Shirley Pit delivered today, I would also be firing that bad boy up no matter the weather! Very nice. And did you say "the first one" as there may be more in your future?

No smoke today for me. Too cold. Its 60* right now. (Runs and hides). Leftovers for us today.
 
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