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***Official Grilling and Smoking Thread*** (1 Viewer)
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Brony
Footballguy
I thought your 'resting in the microwave' was a typo until I saw that you put this in the recipe too. Nothing wrong with microwave from practical standpoint, but it does sound weird.
TheFanatic
Footballguy
TheFanatic
Footballguy
Next two days to have windchills between 15 and 24 below zero and then 60 by friday. Can't wait for Friday
Ron Swanson
Footballguy
TheFanatic
Footballguy
Same here. I have a different kamado, but I rarely use it now. A buddy of mine owns a company that supplies those megatouch machines/Golden Tee and also the hunting video games for bars. He offered me a video game for my kamado. About the only reason I don't is that it looks outstanding blurred in the back of a picture for the website.
PinkydaPimp
Footballguy
Want to smoke something different today. Anyone have a recipe for smoked meatloaf perhaps?
msommer
Footballguy
PinkydaPimp
Footballguy
Thats what im thinking. Ground beef, ground pork(Jimmy dean breakfast sausage perhaps?), onions and peppers, maybe bacon. toss on smoker?
msommer
Footballguy
That sounds like a winner. I'd probably blend the onions with a little milk and mix in some eggs and bread crumbs to absorb the egg/milk. I like blending the onion as the taste simply fuses into the meat loaf, I supposed if you grated them it would have the same result but possibly with more tears. The eggs make it stick better together as do the breadcrumbs (in addition to soaking up the moisture introduced).Thats what im thinking. Ground beef, ground pork(Jimmy dean breakfast sausage perhaps?), onions and peppers, maybe bacon. toss on smoker?
If you are using bacon, I'd use it for wrap or top cover if you only want bit (and/or want to get some smoke on the meatloaf itself).
Damn, now I need to get out and buy some wood for smoking....
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PinkydaPimp
Footballguy
Ron Swanson
Footballguy
If you could form it on a cookie tray with a wax paper liner and refrigerate it say an hour before smoking I bet you could get in on whole and without a basket/pan.
msommer
Footballguy
Wild Young Billy
A Crazy Cat
I threw a butt on the smoker this morning. I’m also going to smoke some ice for future bourbon use.
TheFanatic
Footballguy
As a matter of fact...
More traditional - This is the best meatloaf I've ever had. And when my mom grudgingly admitted that it was better than hers, I thought I might have something. And when she had us over for Sunday dinner and had all the ingredients from my recipe waiting for me and said, "Go on. Make the meatloaf," I knew I had something.
Sicilian Meat Roll
TheFanatic
Footballguy
This last weekend, it was absolutely beautiful, but I didn't grill anything. I did mow down a bunch of BBQ tho. Hung out with Moe Cason on Friday and Sat. Friday, he did a pop up at SugarFire in St. Louis. So I got to chow on his ribs and collard greens that night and then on Saturday I got to sit in on his BBQ class and at his brisket and pulled pork. Such a cool dude.
bryhamm
Footballguy
TheFanatic
Footballguy
yes he is. Did you know that up until just a few weeks ago, he worked for your water department? He just quit his job to do BBQ full time. I figured the Little Caesar's commercial would've done that at the latest and that he'd already quit years ago. Blows my mind.
bryhamm
Footballguy
No, didn't know that. I saw him on TV years ago and tried looking up Ponderosa BBQ, thinking maybe he had a restaurant. But it is only the name of his BBQ team.
HellToupee
Footballguy
Anyone have a pellet grill/smoker? Looking for some recommendations.
TheFanatic
Footballguy
Well, my friend, you are in luck. He will be signing a lease by the end of the month and is hoping to have a restaurant open by the start of the summer. The folks from SugarFire plan on going up and helping with the opening for a couple weeks.
TheFanatic
Footballguy
HellToupee
Footballguy
TheFanatic
Footballguy
bryhamm
Footballguy
That is awesome. Hopefully it is open the next time I go up to visit family.
BTW, did you hear that SugarFire is opening a new site in Wentzville (my neck of the woods). Haven't heard anything about a date yet though.
TheFanatic
Footballguy
They are opening up 10 new stores around here. I know the ones in Cape and Farmington are almost done but didn't know where some of the closer ones are going to be.
Binky The Doormat
Footballguy
been thinking about a reasonably priced electric smoker ever since my last Brinkman bullet rusted out. I yearn for the Cookshack - but just can't pull the trigger for $700 - $1100 (next size up). What would you recommend?
shuke
Black Ice Skeptic
Binky The Doormat
Footballguy
My time is too important to sit around nursing the temp of a fire.
I don't typically really DO anything that is important - I just don't want to be tied to the thing.
HellToupee
Footballguy
Same here. I have a nice gas grill, believe me, a very nice gas grill. But I want to supplement it and have become very intrigued with these pellet rigs.
Trying to decide between Traeger,Green Mountain & Camp Chef
Binky The Doormat
Footballguy
If you're looking to drop some coin - I hear Cookshack, Smoking Tex and Smokin It are top notch ...top notch!
Ron Swanson
Footballguy
Real wood down?
All you people with your fancy pellets and charcoals and electric doohickeys make me sick. Be a man and cut down a tree, light it on fire and cook some meat!
Softballguy
Footballguy
Ok, I've had a few tonight... but you got to hang out with THE Moe Cason... and then you casually name drop SugarFire?! I've been considering the 7hr drive based on Twitter conversations I've had with those dudes.... just to drive there and head back. And you say it it passing... Unreal.
ETA: I mean unreal as in you're very damn lucky... I should just do it.
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shuke
Black Ice Skeptic
Man, that is the best part of smoking. "Honey, I'll be outside getting drunk tending the smoker".
Softballguy
Footballguy
Right?! I have a hard time going with the "program it and forget it" crowd. I feel like it takes the "art" for lack of a better word out of it. I hear so many great things about a Traeger, but to me it's too much like oven cooking.
Buzzbait
Footballguy
I have a WSM 22.5" and my experience is that it requires very little attention. If it's a long smoke I might need to add additional charcoal but it's holds temp very well and doesn't require much babysitting.Binky The Doormat said:
That's what I do but per the above comment it's not really necessary.shuke said:
TheFanatic
Footballguy
Yes, THE Moe Cason. I've met the guy a few times now. Q in the Lou a couple years in a row, the American Royal last year, but this was the first time I got to hang out with him, have a few beers and shoot the ####. Such a laid back and chill dude. As for SugarFire, I've know Mike Johnson for a few years now. That guy is good people too. Just an amazing guy. He deserves all the success he's getting. I'm humbled to call him a friend.Softballguy said:
TheFanatic
Footballguy
This WAS the best part of smoking for me until I had kids. Well, not when I had the first one, or the second. More like the 3rd and 4th. Add in running a couple small companies, I need set it and forget it. I need both my time and I need to know that when I set it at 250 it's going to stay there if I'm cooking for a client. That food has to look as pretty as it can be in the pics. The added bonus of knowing exactly when it's going to be done because there are not going to be any temperature spikes or drops because I got distracted with something else.shuke said:
One day, if my responsibility load drops, I might go back to standing over a stick burner for hours on end. I don't know. Now that I've gone to set it and forget it, I'm not sure I can go back.
TheFanatic
Footballguy
I haven't had much experience with electric smokers. I had a Char-Broil for a little while. It was alright. Sorry. Wish I could be more help.
Hawks64
Footballguy
Well tbf he's (@TheFanatic) starting to make a pretty solid name for himself in the grilling and smoking industry. I'm kind of surprised that he's not doing a lot of caterings or pop-ups.Softballguy said:
ChiefD
Footballguy
Thanks for posting this.
Brisket is the final meat I need to get good at, and 2018 is the year of brisket in my house. Gonna try and try and try until I get it right.
msommer
Footballguy
DoThanks for posting this.
Brisket is the final meat I need to get good at, and 2018 is the year of brisket in my house. Gonna try and try and try until I get it right.
Or do not
There is no "Try"
/Yod###-hole
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TheFanatic
Footballguy
I've catered exactly three times. All three were at the Busch mansion here in St. Louis. The Busch mansion is damn near forbidden/castle like in terms of access. It was a bucket list Item I never knew could be on my bucket list.
I've got a 500 gallon propane tank and an 18 foot trailer I want to make into a big smoker, so I can do charity events. That's about the extent of the pop ups I want to do. Word just got out at my kids school on what I do. Now they really want me to help out with their couple of BBQ fundraisers they do. I'm leery about that. Don't want to go in there and say, "this is how things are to be done." Not sure the level of control I would have and don't want to be a jerk by telling people there is a better way. Don't want to alienate people while trying to raise money for a good cause, but also, if they are going to ask me to associate my name with it, I want the product to be great. Not sure if that makes any sense.
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Insoxicated
I wouldn't touch it under any other terms, IMO. If they want you to do it, those are the terms.
E-Z Glider
Footballguy
Pellet grills are effortless and ensure you're meat is cooked to perfection every time, but mass-produced, automated BBQ has no soul. Random hot spots and temperature fluctuation caused by overindulgence / neglect are what gives BBQ its character. The beer drinking part is good too.Binky The Doormat said:
Buzzbait
Footballguy
Temp getting to around 40 degrees tonight so I'm going to do some wings on the WSM Kettle (after adding a grilling grate 5" from the top that's what I call it now 
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Going to use the BBQ Vortex and some rub I just got from KosmosQ.
WSM vortex wings
)Going to use the BBQ Vortex and some rub I just got from KosmosQ.
WSM vortex wings
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