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RE: Best Smoker?
(06-23-2014 02:05 AM)KRB Wrote: Agree with Tigerjeb. Portable Kitchen, last forever. Not huge surface area. If you want a backyard grille. These are worth twice the price.
they make a second grill surface that sits above the regular one, doubling the grilling area. i use the heck out of mine, especially for fish and veggies. memphis bbq supply sells them BTW
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RE: Best Smoker?
(06-23-2014 08:36 PM)tigerjeb Wrote: (06-23-2014 02:05 AM)KRB Wrote: Agree with Tigerjeb. Portable Kitchen, last forever. Not huge surface area. If you want a backyard grille. These are worth twice the price.
they make a second grill surface that sits above the regular one, doubling the grilling area. i use the heck out of mine, especially for fish and veggies. memphis bbq supply sells them BTW
Have a picture or a Link?
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RE: Best Smoker?
(06-23-2014 08:36 PM)tigerjeb Wrote: (06-23-2014 02:05 AM)KRB Wrote: Agree with Tigerjeb. Portable Kitchen, last forever. Not huge surface area. If you want a backyard grille. These are worth twice the price.
they make a second grill surface that sits above the regular one, doubling the grilling area. i use the heck out of mine, especially for fish and veggies. memphis bbq supply sells them BTW
Yep TJ. I've seen the extra rack. They are just a really good grille.
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RE: Best Smoker?
(06-23-2014 09:46 PM)Redbanksdog Wrote: (06-23-2014 08:36 PM)tigerjeb Wrote: (06-23-2014 02:05 AM)KRB Wrote: Agree with Tigerjeb. Portable Kitchen, last forever. Not huge surface area. If you want a backyard grille. These are worth twice the price.
they make a second grill surface that sits above the regular one, doubling the grilling area. i use the heck out of mine, especially for fish and veggies. memphis bbq supply sells them BTW
Have a picture or a Link?
mbbqsupply.com
Click on the PK grills
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tigerjeb
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RE: Best Smoker?
(06-23-2014 09:46 PM)Redbanksdog Wrote: (06-23-2014 08:36 PM)tigerjeb Wrote: (06-23-2014 02:05 AM)KRB Wrote: Agree with Tigerjeb. Portable Kitchen, last forever. Not huge surface area. If you want a backyard grille. These are worth twice the price.
they make a second grill surface that sits above the regular one, doubling the grilling area. i use the heck out of mine, especially for fish and veggies. memphis bbq supply sells them BTW
Have a picture or a Link?
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RE: Best Smoker?
Forget about smoking. Sous vide is the way to go. Cook a steak in a water bath for a couple of hours and then throw it on the grill to char for a few minutes. Any kind of meat or fish does well in sous vide.
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RE: Best Smoker?
(06-24-2014 12:55 PM)mairving Wrote: Forget about smoking. Sous vide is the way to go. Cook a steak in a water bath for a couple of hours and then throw it on the grill to char for a few minutes. Any kind of meat or fish does well in sous vide.
Sous vide is a completely different type of cooking. It's incredibly useful in many applications, but for smoked ribs or pulled pork? Not so much. Steak. scallops, eggs? Absolutely.
Do you have a water circulator? I've got the Anova (the first model). I had a SideKIC for a time, but at this point it's practically a dinosaur.
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RE: Best Smoker?
I agree with Jeb. Contact Memphis Barbeque Supply. The owner can talk all day about grills and smokers (trust me, I know.)
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RE: Best Smoker?
I like to use a brine for ribs prior to smoking/grilling.
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RE: Best Smoker?
I tend to heavily inject pork butts with a pretty good mix of Worcestershire, apple juice, apple cider vinegar, water, sugar, salt, and some of whatever rub I'm using. It makes a pretty substantial difference in the end product in terms of getting flavor pretty deep into the meat.
One of the things that I've found that's really made a massive difference is wrapping the butts in foil to rest for about 2 hours after coming off the smoker. After the rest, once you open the foil you'll have a good amount of juice at the bottom of the foil. Save this! Once you pull, mix some of the liquid into the pulled meat. It really keeps things juicy and flavorful.
This liquid should be saved in the fridge for leftovers - it actually turns into a gelatin in the fridge. This "pork jelly" can be mixed into the meat before reheating any leftover pork. Or, like mairving mentioned, if you have a sous-vide circulator, you can mix some of the jelly into a vac-sealed bag of pulled pork, put in the water bath until warmed, and then open and mix together. Good as the day it was pulled.
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RE: Best Smoker?
(06-25-2014 02:18 PM)Morkai Wrote: I tend to heavily inject pork butts with a pretty good mix of Worcestershire, apple juice, apple cider vinegar, water, sugar, salt, and some of whatever rub I'm using. It makes a pretty substantial difference in the end product in terms of getting flavor pretty deep into the meat.
One of the things that I've found that's really made a massive difference is wrapping the butts in foil to rest for about 2 hours after coming off the smoker. After the rest, once you open the foil you'll have a good amount of juice at the bottom of the foil. Save this! Once you pull, mix some of the liquid into the pulled meat. It really keeps things juicy and flavorful.
This liquid should be saved in the fridge for leftovers - it actually turns into a gelatin in the fridge. This "pork jelly" can be mixed into the meat before reheating any leftover pork. Or, like mairving mentioned, if you have a sous-vide circulator, you can mix some of the jelly into a vac-sealed bag of pulled pork, put in the water bath until warmed, and then open and mix together. Good as the day it was pulled.
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RE: Best Smoker?
Memphis Barbeque Supply Diffidently!!! They have multiple types of smokers and grills. They have over 200 different Rubs, Sauces, Hot Sauces, and Injections in stock. This is where the BBQ pros shop.
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RE: Best Smoker?
I've heard Willie Nelson would be high on the list.
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RE: Best Smoker?
(06-22-2014 10:04 AM)dan o Wrote: (06-22-2014 09:56 AM)tnzazz Wrote: My dad is wanting to buy a easy and economically priced smoker that has decent surface area. Should probably be propane or electric.
He might even go for a duel grill/smoker as his grill has seen better days.
Any suggestions would be appreciated. Thank you.
I can only comment on what I have. I use the Weber Smokey Mountain Smoker and love it.
I have always used a Weber grill so I am a Weber fan.
http://bbq.about.com/od/smokerreviews/gr...12008b.htm
http://bbq.about.com/od/grills/u/equipment.htm#s2
This is what we went with. I will be doing a lot of cooking on it and I can see how I like it because I need one too.
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RE: Best Smoker?
(06-26-2014 06:04 PM)tnzazz Wrote: (06-22-2014 10:04 AM)dan o Wrote: (06-22-2014 09:56 AM)tnzazz Wrote: My dad is wanting to buy a easy and economically priced smoker that has decent surface area. Should probably be propane or electric.
He might even go for a duel grill/smoker as his grill has seen better days.
Any suggestions would be appreciated. Thank you.
I can only comment on what I have. I use the Weber Smokey Mountain Smoker and love it.
I have always used a Weber grill so I am a Weber fan.
http://bbq.about.com/od/smokerreviews/gr...12008b.htm
http://bbq.about.com/od/grills/u/equipment.htm#s2
This is what we went with. I will be doing a lot of cooking on it and I can see how I like it because I need one too.
Hard to go wrong with smoking Que.
Have fun
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RE: Best Smoker?
(06-26-2014 02:44 PM)ohmboy Wrote: I've heard Willie Nelson would be high on the list.
Willie and Snoop Dogg in a loser leaves town match.
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RE: Best Smoker?
(06-26-2014 09:43 PM)KRB Wrote: (06-26-2014 02:44 PM)ohmboy Wrote: I've heard Willie Nelson would be high on the list.
Willie and Snoop Dogg in a loser leaves town match.
Cheech and Chong in a blow out
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RE: Best Smoker?
(06-27-2014 07:29 AM)dan o Wrote: (06-26-2014 09:43 PM)KRB Wrote: (06-26-2014 02:44 PM)ohmboy Wrote: I've heard Willie Nelson would be high on the list.
Willie and Snoop Dogg in a loser leaves town match.
Cheech and Chong in a blow out
I was going to pair them against Willie and Snoop, in a cage match. I was going to get to it. Good one though.
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RE: Best Smoker?
(06-27-2014 07:29 AM)dan o Wrote: (06-26-2014 09:43 PM)KRB Wrote: (06-26-2014 02:44 PM)ohmboy Wrote: I've heard Willie Nelson would be high on the list.
Willie and Snoop Dogg in a loser leaves town match.
Cheech and Chong in a blow out
I went to see their live comedy act in tunica several years back.
It was bad. Really, really bad.
Sitting in two folding chairs, pretending to be behind the wheel of a car, rehashing the old jokes from up in smoke... jeez guys...
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