Smoking my first pork belly tomorrow new butcher shop opened up. Very cool guys I want them to hire me lol
Just picked up a Traeger 575 after having an akorn for several years. Going to get it broken in with a butt and mac and cheese.
My old man has been throwing a rack on the gas grill to "char" them and then putting them in the crock pot to slow cook, no added liquid, and they have come out really well. I took some leftover meat tossed it in sauce and threw it on a toasted brioche bun and it was damn good for "bbq" that hadn't seen a smoker. I think he is doing them for the game tomorrow as well.
PSB tomorrow. Homemade mac as well. Looking forward to actually watching the game tomorrow, but probably not. I won’t be hungry at least.
Smoking a small packer pastrami, a butt, and 3 racks of spares for a SB party tonight. Haven’t used the offset so far in 2023 so I’m hyped.
Not even doing that - just dealing with the light rain like a real man. Smoking my ribs out in the rain drinking beer as the good lord intended
Brisket meatballs Ground up a brisket point for hamburgers a couple of weeks ago, and a pound and a half left over Took that and made meatballs with diced jalapeños, cheddar and gouda cheese that I smoked, panko crumbles and some seasoning. Wrapped in bacon Gunna glaze em with some bbq sauce here in a bit
if it’s still on sale at atlanta grill company (even if it isn’t) it’s one of the few accessories that’s worth every penny
I just ground up..... 4 pounds of brisket point for hamburger meat/future use. Then a mix of 3 pounds brisket, 3 pounds of pork butt, 3 pounds of venison, and 1.5 pounds of bacon ends with about 7 jalapeños and a bunch of seasonings. The latter will be mixed with a pound of cubed up home smoked cheddar tomorrow and stuffed in hog casings, then smoked low to like 150 or so. Got about 5 pounds of pork butt left to decide what to do with tomorrow
I’m new to the home grind game, but brisket point makes the best ground beef imo. Something about the abundance of oleic acid I think.
I think he started it at 8 am. I got here a few hours ago. For my California people he drove out to Corona to a farm and literally picked which hog he wanted.
When I built that pit 17 years ago, I found these two stainless steel rods that I thought would make good sausage hanging rods I welded cut off eye bolts in the top to hang the rods on. I never made any sausage in my life before 2020. And this is the very first time I have ever actually used those rods
Anyone ever experience any bubbling/chipping paint on their pellet smoker? I just went to dry my traeger following some rain (never leave the cover off) and some paint came off the the front/top seam. Purely cosmetic but still lame.