Anyone Smokin’?

[Strecker25]

I still use an old electric smoker. The usual suspects: Ribs, pulled pork (I do two shoulders for 24 hours @ 215* until internal temp is 200*), sausages, chicken.

Some others we've done that are a little different:

• Roast beef. Buy an entire top round (as big as you can fit in the smoker), I do 12-15lbs at a time. rub it down with S+P, garlic and onion powder, tyme and rosemary. Smoke until internal temp is 125*. Straight into the fridge (still whole) overnight. Slice the next day for the best damn roast beef you've ever had. I have a slicer so I get it thin, but you could use a sharp knife and do it by hand
• Cheeseburgers! hand made with ground beef, seasoned, smoke for a few hours at 225

Here is the roast beef smoke

 

[OllieC]

What do you use for pellets? We burn them for heat and most are softwoods, not exactly what comes to mind when smoking food. Are there food smoking pellets?

Yes. There are designated pellets for smoking. Do not use the pellets that are used for heat.
Most home improvement stores carry them. Traeger Brand, Lumberjack, Green Mountain, Pit Boss, to name a few. They come in multiple hard woods, fruitwoods or blends.

 

[wyrman]

I use Cookingpellets.com, the guy's in Racine,Wi.
I just stuffed 20lbs of summer sausage this morning, I will smoke it tomorrow, for appx 24hrs.
This will be done in my pid controlled fridge smoker.
Here's a pic of my stuffer. I have a foot switch controlling a relay. I have two dishwasher valves, one to supply water, and one to open the drain so the meat stops immediately when I turn it off.
I also have a boost pump, needed when stuffing pepper sticks, and a drain pump to pull the water out and retract the ram to refill the stuffer.

 

[OllieC]

You've gone 'All Pro', Greg.

 

[wyrman]

I use Cookingpellets.com, the guy's in Racine,Wi.
I just stuffed 20lbs of summer sausage this morning, I will smoke it tomorrow, for appx 24hrs.
This will be done in my pid controlled fridge smoker.
Here's a pic of my stuffer. I have a foot switch controlling a relay. I have two dishwasher valves, one to supply water, and one to open the drain so the meat stops immediately when I turn it off.
I also have a boost pump, needed when stuffing pepper sticks, and a drain pump to pull the water out and retract the ram to refill the stuffer.

 

[bbwhitejr]

I started with a small Weber stacked smoker. Moved up to a Chargriller Barrell smoker with the smoke box on the end. From that to a Chargriller Akorn which I still have and use from time to time. I am old and lazy now and have a MasterBilt Digital electric smoker and love the simplicity and the best thing about it is I can plug it in on the dock and smoke at the boat all I want. We do a Memorial Day feed, July 4th, Labor Day, and sometimes in between. Butts, ribs, wings, brisket, sausage, beef ribs, chuck roasts....Super easy...

Bennett

 

[spikedaddy99]

I got a rec-tec a month ago. Ribs, brisket, butts, chicken burgers, you name it. I have pretty picky kids and they are devouring the food off of this thing.

 

[ZZ13]

30 year smoker here. I used to use all the wiz bang delux smokers. But when I retired and downsized I just kept the good old Weber kettle and it smokes meat plenty good enough. Just pulled this turkey breast off of it about 10 minutes ago.

 

[OllieC]

30 year smoker here. I used to use all the wiz bang delux smokers. But when I retired and downsized I just kept the good old Weber kettle and it smokes meat plenty good enough. Just pulled this turkey breast off of it about 10 minutes ago.

Sometimes the KISS method is best. I still kept my Masterbuilt kettle or bullet smoker and plan on bringing it up to the cabin.

 

[OllieC]

Smoked about 20lbs of pork shoulder (after brining) and chased it with a 12 pack of Bells Two Hearted Ale. 17.5 hours on the smoker until 203º then in the cooler for 5 hours until 160º.

 

[wyrman]

What's in the pan?

 

[OllieC]

What's in the pan?

Left over cider brine. Just to keep things moist. Smells great too. I put it on at 8pm and let it go overnight.

 

[wyrman]

It looks really good.

 

[OllieC]

The beer or the roasts?

 

[bajturner]

Traeger here. Haven't found a way to screw anything up with that thing yet! Almost never use the gas grill anymore...