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The BBQ Thread

I LOVE lamb....but Mrs. Skinsfan doesn't eat it, so I have to settle for chops. While I prefer beef medium rare, I always cook, and/or order, lamb rare. Did you put a sear on it at the end?
Yes, seared it in the grill after. I dunno, maybe I did something wrong along the way, but I got it mid-rare and I think it was a little under for my taste. But just a hair. I did let it rest.

It was really good. Probably just a matter of preference.

I absolutely would err on the under side because if you go over you’re going to dry it out and end up with shoe leather.
 
Ribs today and Mrs. Skinsfan made a killer Peach-Bourbon Upside-Down Bundt cake with some of the peaches we picked last week.
I am stuffed....

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Those both look fantastic!

Did a Tomahawk steak on Saturday… smoked for an hour then seared at 450 on both sides… still medium rare…

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Those both look fantastic!

Did a Tomahawk steak on Saturday… smoked for an hour then seared at 450 on both sides… still medium rare…

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Great job on that steak!
Mrs. Skinsfan likes well done. :cautious: My challenge is cooking them both so we're eating at the same time.
I'll smoke hers earlier, then sear them at the same time. That works most of the time, but the timing can get dicked up.
A lot of times I'll break out the sous vide....do hers at 160....leave it in the water....then bring the water temp down to 130*...add my steak and then finish them both off on the grill at the same time. That only seems to work with steak. I've tried it with pork chops, (I like mine at 140-145...she likes hers well), but the sous-vide gives pork chops a "ham-like" flavor with an off-putting texture.

* dunk a storage bag of ice-water with holes poked in brings the temp down quickly....
 
Man, l love some bark in my pulled pork - that looks awesome!!!
 
I had 2 jobs for the beginning of the summer, and then have been out of town for the last 2 weeks. I have a lot of grilling/smoking to make up. The one thing I did smoke was a boneless leg of lamb, and that was outstanding. On my list of things to do:

- Pork Butt for pulled pork
- St. Louis 3-2-1 ribs
- Smoked BBQ Chicken Quarters. I've done the whole bird before, and it's good. The problem is, nobody wants the chicken breasts as much as fights for the leg quarters, even through the chicken breasts come out nice and juicy. (See below for one of my favorite chicken breast stories from HS which will make you laugh.)
- Brisket

For Thanksgiving, I will be smoking the turkey.

What else should I add to my list of things to smoke? I've thought about beef ribs, but never done them...

** Story: I had a couple of friends who were dating in High School. We're going to call them Kevin and Sue. Names have been changed to protect the guilty and innocent. Kevin's father was a executive chef somewhere in DC, I don't remember the restaurant. Sue called, and said to Kevin (she was on speaker phone, this was a super huge feature having a home phone with a speaker at the time) "I picked up 2 juicy chicken breasts from the store, could you ask your dad how I should cook them?"

Kevin yelled to his dad, "Hey Dad, Sue has 2 juicy breasts and wants to know what to do with them."

Hilarity ensued.
 
I have a Peruvian brick chicken recipe that is incredible if you are interested. I do it with a butterflied whole chicken or chicken quarters will work well too.
 
I had 2 jobs for the beginning of the summer, and then have been out of town for the last 2 weeks. I have a lot of grilling/smoking to make up. The one thing I did smoke was a boneless leg of lamb, and that was outstanding. On my list of things to do:

- Pork Butt for pulled pork
- St. Louis 3-2-1 ribs
- Smoked BBQ Chicken Quarters. I've done the whole bird before, and it's good. The problem is, nobody wants the chicken breasts as much as fights for the leg quarters, even through the chicken breasts come out nice and juicy. (See below for one of my favorite chicken breast stories from HS which will make you laugh.)
- Brisket

For Thanksgiving, I will be smoking the turkey.

What else should I add to my list of things to smoke? I've thought about beef ribs, but never done them...

** Story: I had a couple of friends who were dating in High School. We're going to call them Kevin and Sue. Names have been changed to protect the guilty and innocent. Kevin's father was a executive chef somewhere in DC, I don't remember the restaurant. Sue called, and said to Kevin (she was on speaker phone, this was a super huge feature having a home phone with a speaker at the time) "I picked up 2 juicy chicken breasts from the store, could you ask your dad how I should cook them?"

Kevin yelled to his dad, "Hey Dad, Sue has 2 juicy breasts and wants to know what to do with them."

Hilarity ensued.
Stuff to smoke?
Beef ribs
Brisket burnt ends
Pork belly burnt ends
Chuck roast
Ham
Pit beef
Thick cut pork chops
 

Voice_of_Reason - on the Peruvian Chicken,
basically, you take a whole chicken, trim off extra skin, break or remove the backbone to butterfly/spatchcock it. Loosen the skin from the chicken meat all over the chicken. Once you have the chicken prepped (it should more or less lay flat butterfly style), wash/soak it in ice water with the juice and fruit of 4-5 fresh lemons. While it soaks, combine the following to make a paste (if you need it thicker, add more of the dry spices, up to double the amounts below):

4 tablespoons white vinegar
3 tablespoons white wine
3 tablespoons olive oil
3-4 more tablespoons of lemon juice
2 1/2 tablespoons garlic powder
2 tablespoons paprika (I use smoked paprika)
1 1/2 tablespoons cumin
2 teaspoons black pepper
1 teaspoon salt

Pull the chicken out of the lemon water after an hour or so and drain the liquid from it. Spread the paste all over the chicken both under and over the skin. Knead until the entire chicken is coated with the paste. Refrigerate for at least 1-2 hours, but overnight is even better.

You want to cook this indirectly, either on a pellet grill or using indirect methoed with whatever grill you have. Ideal temp 275-300 degrees. You'll either need some bricks (you can wrap them in foil) or even better, a cast iron skillet, griddle, or dutch oven. Put your cast iron in the grill as it heats. When grill is to temp, spray Pam on the grates and on the cast iron surface. Place the chicken on the greased grill, and put the 'brick' or cast iron on top of the chicken. You want both the grill and brick well oiled/Pam-ed as it will tend to stick and pull off the skin when you turn or remove it. The heavier the 'brick' the better this works. Cook for 30 minutes and check it. You should see the chicken getting almost crispy as it cooks. Turn the chicken, replace the 'brick' on top, and cook for another 30 minutes or so. You will know the chicken is done because it will want to fall apart as you take it off the grill. Hit the chicken with some fresh lemon juice as it comes off the grill.

This stuff is like crack - it is that good.
 
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Resurrecting an old recipe I used to do but with ground beef.

Stuffed Flank Steak. Bought a couple nice flank steaks and butterflied them so they are half as thick and can be rolled up. Marinating flank steaks in soy sauce, olive oil, chopped garlic, and montreal steak seasoning. In a couple hours, I will pull them out of the fridge, cover them with a mix of thinly sliced mushrooms, green onions, celery, red pepper, spinach, cherry tomatoes. Then I'll add bleu cheese, roll the flank steaks up, tie them with cotton string, them put them in the smoker in a foil pan for an hour. Will cut into pinwheels when they are done. Going to do some wild rice with mushrooms to go with. Pics to follow.
 
Another hot and fast brisket.
Mrs Skinsfan made the cornbread

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What kind of smoker are you using? The bark on that is insane...
 
What kind of smoker are you using? The bark on that is insane...
An old 18.5" Weber Smokey Mountain.
I used a couple chunks each of post oak & pecan buried in the charcoal. B&B briquettes.
Average temp was 300° at the grate and wrapped it after the bark was set. It passes the scratch test at 171° wrapped it in foil and it was probe tender at 203°. I rested in a cooler for a couple hours.
It was a Whole Prime Packer 13lbs after trimming and proof that wrapping and resting does not destroy a well set bark😉
Cook time was 7 1/2 hrs.
 
Wow. That sounds awesome. Guessing you didn't do any injection before going on the smoker, just a dry rub? And you just did a dry wrap I assume (no liquid added)? Butcher paper or foil? That's great. I may try that this weekend on my BGE. I used to have a Weber Smokey Mountain... you cannot beat it for cost and how well it works. Do you fill the water pan with brisket or leave it dry? And where the hell do you get post oak? *** Nevermind, found some on Amazon and ordered. I have never used oak with brisket but am going to try your method.
 

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