Well, not really, I gave up babysitting my smoker a long time ago. This is true for brisket and butts, I tend to do overnight smokes, set it up and let it roll. This was a pretty typical smoke except for the cold weather. I did purchase 6 butts at my local Kroger where they…
Category: Pork
new category to consolidate pork products
Sliced Pork Butt
Pork butt can be prepared several ways. It can be sliced into pork steaks, and grilled or smoked. It can also be cooked in the oven, which was an old family recipe that my mother would cook. The traditional method for smoking sliced pork would be to cook to an internal temperature of 170 and…
Large pulled pork project
I was looking for a replacement 22″ Weber Smokey Mountain for the last 6 months or so. With the pandemic they were hard to locate even new. I started to watch Facebook Market Place and Craigslist and had seen a few, but finally was able to score one. This one was about 6 years old…
Smoked Pork Ribs – hang em high
I finally found the time to try to perfect hanging ribs on my 22″ Weber Smokey Mountain. Once again ribs were on sale at my local Sprouts and I purchased two racks for $7 each. To prepare the ribs, you want to remove the membrane from the back of the racks. This take a little…
Hanging Ribs
This was the my first smoke hanging ribs with the rack I received for my birthday. The concept of the rack is to turn a Weber Smokey Mountain into a pit barrel style cooker. The rack could be used to smoke ribs or chicken, or pork belly to be used for bacon. The concept is…
Smoked Ribs
I decided to smoked some ribs on this fine spring like day. Temps were in the low 60’s today and no rain in the forecast. I fired up my 22″ Weber Smokey Mountain to complete the three racks of baby back ribs. I purchased the ribs in the 3 pack at my local GFS location…
Smoked Pork Belly
I have only tried to smoke pork belly once, and at that time I did pork belly burnt ends with minimal success. This time, I tried to just do a standard smoked pork belly. I purchased the skinless pork belly from Sams and it was approximately 4 pounds and was under $15. I sliced the…
And then there was 3
I have been smoking for 10 years. My original purchase was an 18″ WSM and it has delivered time after time. I had been watching Craigslist for a deal on 22″ for a long time and never could find one. I stopped in my local Lowes for a small purchase and as my normal tradition…
Sous Vide Chops
My obsession with the Sous Vide cooking process continues. One of my favorite things to cook has been thick cut pork chops. To complete this I purchased a pork loin on sale that was close to 4 lbs and was just over $6. This was a great buy, but even when not on sale, pork…
Pork belly burnt ends – first attempt
I decided to try pork belly burnt ends, since I was finally able to find some to work with. I noticed recently that Sams was now selling uncured pork belly. The price was reasonable (under $15) so not to bad on the risk reward scale. The recipe I was…
Patio Ribs….
My typical go to cook on mothers day is ribs. My wife headed out to California this mothers day to spend some time with daughter #2, but the tradition continued anyway. I smoked the ribs doing the 3,2,1 method. The ribs were reasonable priced and only $8 each at $2.88/lb. I removed the membrane from…
4 Smoke Sunday
Decided to smoke several different things today. I had a 3 lb pork loin and a couple of small turkey breast that I smoked first. I did not plan to do these low and slow, so I started a fill chimney of charcoal, and spread it on top of some additional charcoal. I gave it…
Smoked, a Smoked Ham
I decided to mix it up this year for Thanksgiving. I have smoked a turkey for the last several years but decided to smoke a Sam’s brand Honey Baked Ham. The price was right it was only $16 and it is was close to 9 lbs. I used apple wood ( a light smoke wood)…
Smoke em if you got em…..
I completed a 4 pork butt smoke this week while on stay-cation on my 18″ Weber Smokey Mountain Smoker. For me this is a long low and slow process, and if I am going to spend up to 19 hours smoking the meat, I need to load up the smoker and take advantage of it….
Sunday – Fun Day
Spent the day completing a three meat trio on the two smokers. Completed 4 racks of baby back ribs on the 18″ and then completed some SPAM and three types of sausages on the 14″. Ribs were completed with modified 3-2-1 which ended up being 3 -1.5 and .5. They were good and stayed on…