June 4, 20214 yr 10 minutes ago, Boogyman said: Just pellets. They last quite a while though. I usually buy 2 40lb bags from lowes for 15 bucks a bag, and it will usually last me a month or so. A plus is you can fill the hopper with pellets, and if smoking at a low temp just put it on and go to sleep. At 225 or lower you hardly use any pellets. Great for briskets or pulled pork. So, how much are you using it in a month?
June 4, 20214 yr Just now, toolg said: So, how much are you using it in a month? I'd say 2 to 3 times a week. Pellet usage varies a lot by temp. It does eat pellets fast if you crank it to up (350 to 500 degrees). At smoking temps it uses very little.
June 4, 20214 yr 27 minutes ago, Boogyman said: They are not really new, just gaining in popularity. A lot easier to use than an offset. Doesn't give quite as much smoke but it works like an oven, you get a temp and it stays there. As for pellets, every manufacturer says you should use their pellets but it's BS. I have a Traeger and exclusively use Pit Boss pellets because they are cheaper and sold at Lowes which is right down the road. The size and shape of the pellets is the same across brands. My Traeger even has wifi and a phone app, I can monitor my cook without even being home. Here are my last few cooks, a couple chickens, prime rib, and pork belly burnt ends. Beautiful. First Pellet Smoker I ever saw was on BBQ Pittmasters. Green Egg too.
June 4, 20214 yr Just now, jsdarkstar said: I had a Turkey Diablo from Primos. Now my stomach is killing me. Uggh. Our last couple of Italian and Italian DIablos were subpar.
June 4, 20214 yr Just now, jsdarkstar said: Beautiful. First Pellet Smoker I ever saw was on BBQ Pittmasters. Green Egg too. I went with Traeger, I just compared features and prices and ended up with an Ironwood 650. Had it 2 years now. I may buy a second next spring, I have a much larger house, much nicer yard and a pool now, so we entertain a lot more than when I first got it.
June 4, 20214 yr 2 minutes ago, Boogyman said: I went with Traeger, I just compared features and prices and ended up with an Ironwood 650. Had it 2 years now. I may buy a second next spring, I have a much larger house, much nicer yard and a pool now, so we entertain a lot more than when I first got it. Do you inject your Pork Butt?
June 4, 20214 yr 28 minutes ago, Boogyman said: To be completely honest, I prefer the more subtle smoke you get from the pellet smoker. Sometimes smoke you get from the stick burners overpowers the other flavors in the food you cooked. thats actually what i like about the vertical masterbuilt i have, it doesn't give off a ton of smoke.
June 4, 20214 yr 16 minutes ago, jsdarkstar said: Do you inject your Pork Butt? I don't. Just give it a good rub and some time.
June 4, 20214 yr 21 minutes ago, jsdarkstar said: Do you inject your Pork Butt? She wishes... No. I rub, and smoke till it stalls around 160-165, lay out 4 huge pieces of foil in an asterisk shape, and wrap it so I looks like a volcano at the top. Then mix a can of DrPepper with some minced garlic, a splash of cider vinegar, a splash of worceshire and some spicy brown mustard. Pour it in the top and close it tightly. It pushes through the stall much faster when wrapped and basically "pulls" itself (that he wishes).
June 4, 20214 yr 1 minute ago, jsdarkstar said: Yeah Franklin is "pro wrap" on brisket too I think. And then there is the "never wrap" crowd lol. I do mine a bit different with adding the liquid, but it's the same basic idea and I really like how it comes out.
June 4, 20214 yr 6 minutes ago, Boogyman said: Yeah Franklin is "pro wrap" on brisket too I think. And then there is the "never wrap" crowd lol. I do mine a bit different with adding the liquid, but it's the same basic idea and I really like how it comes out. Yeah, he wraps. Franklin makes great bbq. I always wanted to go on a road trip to a BBQ Pitmasters competition, just sample the food. I also wanted to go on a road trip here as well. Steve rocks.
June 4, 20214 yr I soaked my applewood chips in apple juice the night before smoking some pig. It worked well.
June 5, 20214 yr 8 hours ago, Boogyman said: Yeah Franklin is "pro wrap" on brisket too I think. And then there is the "never wrap" crowd lol. I do mine a bit different with adding the liquid, but it's the same basic idea and I really like how it comes out. The crutch. I always wrap brisket. Always. Even with a nice floppy prime, the flat will dry out if you don't. But for pork butt, i'm more 50/50 on it, mostly depending on how much time I have. There's enough fat in a pork butt that will render so you don't necessarily have to wrap it. On one hand, wrapping keeps it more moist, but on the other, you lose some of that nice texture on the bark. I would like to try using a kitchen torch to crisp up the bark after I take it out of the foil. Not sure if that'll allow me to get the best of both worlds.
June 5, 20214 yr 5 hours ago, we_gotta_believe said: The crutch. I always wrap brisket. Always. Even with a nice floppy prime, the flat will dry out if you don't. But for pork butt, i'm more 50/50 on it, mostly depending on how much time I have. There's enough fat in a pork butt that will render so you don't necessarily have to wrap it. On one hand, wrapping keeps it more moist, but on the other, you lose some of that nice texture on the bark. I would like to try using a kitchen torch to crisp up the bark after I take it out of the foil. Not sure if that'll allow me to get the best of both worlds. I find if you wait until you have a nice bark before wrapping, it's kinda the best of both worlds. Plus it finishes a lot faster wrapped.
June 5, 20214 yr 4 hours ago, Ace Nova said: I can't wait for the day that "people" are just called "people". My 2 cents. What's your thoughts on smoking meat? We got a lot of meat smokers around here
June 5, 20214 yr 2 hours ago, Boogyman said: I find if you wait until you have a nice bark before wrapping, it's kinda the best of both worlds. Plus it finishes a lot faster wrapped. Yeah for larger butts, I usually wrap to avoid having to do a overnight smoke. For a later dinner with a smaller butt, I leave it unwrapped and just wait for it to pull through a stall.
June 5, 20214 yr 1 minute ago, we_gotta_believe said: Yeah for larger butts, I usually wrap to avoid having to do a overnight smoke. For a later dinner with a smaller butt, I leave it unwrapped and just wait for it to pull through a stall. I pretty much only do pulled pork for an afternoon BBQ so I almost always have to cook overnight and wrap. Especially if I want to use the smoker for something else, such as wings which I like to make to go with it. I rarely make it for "dinner time". Pulled pork sandwiches, smoked hot and honey wings, burger sliders, shrimp skewers, and homemade stovetop Mac and cheese is my go to base menu for entertaining a large group of people. Then I'll add whatever the wife tells me to add.
June 7, 20214 yr Had an unexpected gathering Saturday. Made not-fried fried chicken on the pellet grill, and whipped up some mashed and gravy. Not a bad meal on short notice.
June 7, 20214 yr Author Quote A New York City-based psychiatrist told an audience at the Yale School of Medicine in April that she had fantasies of "unloading a revolver into the head of any white person that got in my way.” Dr. Aruna Khilanani spewed the race-hating virtual remarks — in which she also said she’d walk away from the shooting "with a bounce in my step” and that white people "make my blood boil” and "are out of their minds and have been for a long time” — at the Ivy League institution’s Child Study Center on April 6. Audio of the talk was posted on the substack online platform of former New York Times opinion writer and editor Bari Weiss on Friday, along with an interview of Khilanani conducted by writer and podcaster Katie Herzog. A flyer promoting the talk and posted online by Weiss titled the lecture, "The Psychopathic Problem of the White Mind” and included "learning objectives” such as "Set up white people’s absence of empathy towards black rage as a problem” and "Understand how white people are psychologically dependent on black rage.” Khilanani opened her remarks by telling the audience, "I’m gonna say a lot of things, and it will probably provoke a lot of responses, and I want you to just maybe observe them in yourself.” She then added "prayers up for DMX” before discussing what she described as the "intense rage and futility” people of color purportedly feel when talking to white people about racism. "We are calm, we are giving, too giving, and then when we get angry, they use our responses as confirmation that we’re crazy or have emotional problems,” Khilanani said. "It always ends that way, happens every time. Like a goddamn timer, you can count it down. "Nothing makes me angrier than a white person who tells me not to be angry, because they have not seen real anger yet,” she said — before talking about how she "systematically” cut off most of her former white friends "around five years ago. "I stopped watching the news,” Khilanani continued. "Once I started, I couldn’t stop. "It was also a public service,” she said. "I had fantasies of unloading a revolver into the head of any white person that got in my way, burying their body and wiping my bloody hands as I walked away relatively guiltless with a bounce in my step. Like I did the world a f–king favor.” Later in the talk, Khilanani claimed that conversing with white people about racial issues was "useless because they are at the wrong level of conversation. "White people are out of their minds, and they have been for a long time … White people feel that we are bullying them when we bring up race,” she said. "They feel that we should be thanking them for all that they have done for us. They are confused, and so are we. "We keep forgetting that directly talking about race is a waste of our breath,” Khilanani continued. "We are asking a demented, violent predator who thinks that they are a saint or a superhero to accept responsibility. It ain’t gonna happen. "They have five holes in their brain. It’s like banging your head against a brick wall.” Khilanani said that "addressing racism assumes that white people can see and process what we are talking about. "They can’t,” she said. "That’s why they sound demented. They don’t even know they have a mask on. White people think it’s their actual face. We need to get to know the mask.” Liberals are members of the dumbest cult on the planet.
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