Weekend Smoke 5/21-5/22

[nmayeux]

Although today is only Wednesday, I know that I have to work this weekend, and look forward to living vicariously through Y'all. Today, I am smoking my first butt, and will post pictures this evening. I want to thank all who have helped me to develope this level of smoker use, and appreciate all the tips. Again, good smokin' this weekend.
Noah

[roknrandy]

Noah I've got a butt on the smoker today also. Take your time and remember the tips and advice that's given and you'll do just fine.

[nmayeux]

Thanks man!

[icemn62]

I also plan to smoke a pork butt or shoulder this weekend. The wife told me they aer burned out on BBQ so I figure I will do something for me only.

[BrooklynQ]

Nothing for me AGAIN!. Got my god daugther's wedding in Albany, New York. MMM, rubber chicken.

[chad]

I'm judging a cookoff Saturday - so I get to eat que and schmooze!!

I'll probably do something quick like chicken or ribs on Sunday.

[Bigmofo300lbs]

Doing Shoulder & might do some chicken. Checking the rags to see what is on sale...that will help decide the menu!

[nucleargeek]

Didn't plan on anything this weekend, but with all this talk of butts...i may just have to smoke one on Saturday. Thanks for twisting my arm gentlemen.

[icemn62]

Turns out I may not get to cook this weekend after all. Mom-In-Law is in hospital. Figure we will be in car driving to go visit, and check up on things. Wife is there now, her (mom-in-law) kidney's are failing, doing a lot of tests now, will know more this evening.

[dapittboss]

Some sort of beef this weekend. And I'll throw at least one or two fatties on as well.

[Arlin_MacRae]

Got a ton of relatives and guests down for HS graduation, so I'm thinking chances are good to do a couple of butts for some easy poke sammiches.

[brdbbq]

Got a ton of relatives and guests down for HS graduation, so I'm thinking chances are good to do a couple of butts for some easy poke sammiches.

Congrats on finally getting out of high school.

[spicewine]

Big MOFO Show down at the local Shrine club this weekend. It will be great to see all the Missouri Boys together again. Pictures to follow. KCBS Rules.

[Kevin]

Friday night is smoked salmon for 3 sisters in law and 1 wife. Jack Daniels for me to put up with them. Saturday is Pork Butts and Turkey boobs for samiches. High school graduation with about 75 guests expected. My youngest son is graduating high school. Woo Hoo.

[scottm4300]

Q in the woods this weekend. SKD is going on a camping trip. Butts, briskets, and fatties. Should be fun!!

[Neil]

Turns out I may not get to cook this weekend after all. Mom-In-Law is in hospital. Figure we will be in car driving to go visit, and check up on things. Wife is there now, her (mom-in-law) kidney's are failing, doing a lot of tests now, will know more this evening.

We will keep your family in our prayers.

[Arlin_MacRae]

Got a ton of relatives and guests down for HS graduation, so I'm thinking chances are good to do a couple of butts for some easy poke sammiches.

Congrats on finally getting out of high school.

Doh!

[nmayeux]

Ok, thanks to y'all's help, I believe that yesterdays butt was some of the best Q that has ever come out of my kitchen!! It will be hard to eat Q anymore without comparing it to that juicy, flavorful, perfect hunk of meat!! Again, thanks for everything.
Noah

[jt]

No cooking for me. Gotta drive to Indiana for a 50th anniversary (wife's side of the family). Wife's pissed at me AND the mom-in-law going with us. Should be a fun ride.

I hope when I get back there will be lots of good pictures here to show me what I missed!

[jgh1204]

I will be smoking my buckboard bacon tomorrow night.

[mm_0_mm]

I'm cooking for a high school grad party also. My son is graduating. Cooking 4 butts, 4 whole briskets, and 12 slabs of babybacks...

I hope I can still cook when my daughter graduates...she starts kindergarten next year...

[icemn62]

Turns out I may not get to cook this weekend after all. Mom-In-Law is in hospital. Figure we will be in car driving to go visit, and check up on things. Wife is there now, her (mom-in-law) kidney's are failing, doing a lot of tests now, will know more this evening.

We will keep your family in our prayers.

Thank you still no test results, but blood transfusions have her feeling much better. she is up and walking now, and her spirits are much better.

[Bigmista]

Ok, thanks to y'all's help, I believe that yesterdays butt was some of the best Q that has ever come out of my kitchen!! It will be hard to eat Q anymore without comparing it to that juicy, flavorful, perfect hunk of meat!! Again, thanks for everything.
Noah


WHERE ARE THE PICTURES?!?[/b]

[Neil]

Tomorrow it will be 6#'s of beef short ribs and two yardbirds.

[nmayeux]

Ok, thanks to y'all's help, I believe that yesterdays butt was some of the best Q that has ever come out of my kitchen!! It will be hard to eat Q anymore without comparing it to that juicy, flavorful, perfect hunk of meat!! Again, thanks for everything.
Noah


WHERE ARE THE PICTURES?!?[/b]
Mista, you know that I am not stingy about taking pictures, but when the Q came out of the cooler, it was like a pack of hyenas in the kitchen!! I'm lucky the camera wasn't eaten! Anyway, I will have more pics maybe on Sunday as I will probably try this again to prove that it wasn't a fluke.
Noah

[icemn62]

need more pics of the cooks. Something comes up every weekend lately for me not to cook, and I need your pics to at least see good que.

[Bigmofo300lbs]

Let's see...doing a shoulder, Chick Thighs and a rack of ribs for the fam coming into town. Not really sure if they are here for the BBQ or the newborn.

[icemn62]

They are coming for the newborn, they will stay for the BBQ

[Jeff_in_KC]

Two butts and four slabs o' babybacks... going light this weekend. Hopefully Scott will get a chance to sample the ribs and let you all know how damned good I really am! LOL!

30 minutes later... ribs rubbed and in the fridge. I also invented a pork butt rub to try and got both butts rubbed and in the fridge too... up at dawn tomorrow to get at 'em! G'night, brothers.

[Bigmofo300lbs]

4am local time and my coals are lit. "I LOVE THE SMELL OF CHARCOAL IN THE MORNING!"

[Jeff_in_KC]

Damn, I over slept! It's already 7am and my pit temp JUST now got to 200*! Taking to 250 before I put the two butts in.

[Ron_L]

I was all set to cook some loin backs tomorrow, but I just saw the weather forecast, and clear and sunny has turned into on and off rain! Go figure.. I'm going to cook the ribs today, instead...

[brdbbq]

I'm helping the corporation out and working all weekend. But next weekend I'm taking off fark them.

[racer_81]

I'm helping the corporation out and working all weekend. But next weekend I'm taking off fark them.

U DA MAN!!!

[jgh1204]

Friggin hotter than heck outside right now, but I did get my buckboard bacon started at 12:30. S/B done by 4.

[brdbbq]

12:33 u Fast

[jgh1204]

I meant about. :)

I kind of fileted the butts so they almost look like a slab of bacon. They are at 110 degrees right now.

[Ron_L]

I meant about. :)

I kind of fileted the butts so they almost look like a slab of bacon. They are at 110 degrees right now.

I'm very curious about how your bacon turn out. I may try some in a couple of weeks... Pictures, please :)

[jgh1204]

Not sure where the camera is, but it came out great. Just sliced off a few slices and made a sandwich.

Bacon is not the taste I get, but maybe I would if I had fried those slices. It is more like a good, salty, but not too salty ham.

After curing for 10 days, I let mine set in water for 3 hours, with a constant trickle of water from the tap.

Boning it out was easier than I thought. Once I removed the bone, I just continued the slice. You could just cut it in half, but I stopped about 2 inches from the end.

Get your order into www.himtnjerky.com and get your buckboard bacon kit!

You get 3 packages. On 2 butts that weighed about 7lbs each, I used 1.5 packages.

[nmayeux]

Just picked up two butts and two fatties for a last minute cook tomorrow. It will be nice to have a Sunday off for once!
Noah

[Jeff_in_KC]

Took the butts off a while ago and had Scott over to talk Columbia competition and sample the babybacks... we knocked out two slabs with the help of our OL's and my 4 year old daughter. Didn't take any cook pics but my OL snapped a picture of Scott and me finishing off a slab with my daughter grabbing her share!

By the way... Jay, that's your sauce in the picture...

[Bigmista]

Friend of mine called me last night while I was on my way to meet with some brethren for drinks and dinner (Mook and BigMofo300lbs). He said he was doing a fund raiser for his daughter in college. They were raising money for her to go play soccer in Europe (sweden). He asked me to come help him cook. Since he is a really good friend, I said no problem.

I showed up at six a.m. because he said he would have a rush at 10a.m. He wasn't lying. Plates were $10 and we sold 50 plates in the first hour. I spent 7 hoours straight standing over a hot grill. We cooked 200# of teriyaki chicken, 100# Kalbi (Korean Short ribs) and 100# pork sausage. Dinner also came with potato crab salad and chop suey (The family is Samoan.)

We sold somewhere between 175 and 200 plates while I was there and they said people were still coming. I got my plate and left about 2pm. My friend and were so tired we would take turns standing in a bucket of ice water,. I came home hot, sticky, dirty and utterly satisfied because we raised enough money for her trip. She will actuall get a chance to try out for the Swedish National team even though she is a junior in college.

I think I need another nap.

[icemn62]

Doing a Beer'ed Chicken, just about done. family will be home within 30 min. If I am lucky I will be free tomorrow, and can do some ribs, which is what I am craving. If it works out 2 slabs of ribs for me, and some Chicken for the rest of the family.

[Neil]

Beef ribs were absolutely yummy, oh so tender and tastey. At a $1.88/# I should do these every time I fire up the 'dera for an appetizer. Tried the smoked cabbage the judge was talking about the other day and it was great. Cored the cabbage poured a little vinegar in, stuffed about a 1/2 stick of butter in added some Miracle Blend season salt, pepper, granulated garlic and drizzled with Leo's bbq sauce. Wrappped it all up in foil and smoked it on the Weber at about 275-300 for a couple of hours. Turned out great, everyone loved it.

[icemn62]

Mom in Law is doing much better. Wife does not want to make the drive today. I get to cook, Mixed up a rub last night when she told me, and just rubbed my ribs. Of course she came up with a ton of projects she wants to do around the house, but at least I will be home, and that means some SMOKED RIBS. Here are pics from teh Beercan Chicken from last night. All that is left this morning is 1 drumstick.

[Ron_L]

Not sure where the camera is, but it came out great. Just sliced off a few slices and made a sandwich.

Bacon is not the taste I get, but maybe I would if I had fried those slices. It is more like a good, salty, but not too salty ham.

After curing for 10 days, I let mine set in water for 3 hours, with a constant trickle of water from the tap.

Boning it out was easier than I thought. Once I removed the bone, I just continued the slice. You could just cut it in half, but I stopped about 2 inches from the end.

Get your order into www.himtnjerky.com and get your buckboard bacon kit!

You get 3 packages. On 2 butts that weighed about 7lbs each, I used 1.5 packages.

OK... I'm going to order the cure this week... What temp did you cook it to? A lot of guys seem to pull it at 140 internal, which would mean that you'd have to fry it before eating...

[jgh1204]

Yep, I pulled it at 140. I may do 2 again next time and take it to pulling stage. I did eat a few slices off the side w/o frying, they were great.

[jgh1204]

Jeff, your little girl is a cutie, looks like her momma.

[Jeff_in_KC]

Thanks! As long as she looks like her Momma and acts like her Daddy, everything will be OK! LOL!

[willkat98]

Just rubbed down four giant chicken boobs, boneless, with Grub Rub.

Gonna crack out the kettle and smoke/grill them

Mostly hickory, shooting for around 280* range for 2 hours or so.

[Ron_L]

Yesterday's ribs came out great... Forgot to take pictures...

I made the Shack sauce and it came out great! I added just a little too much tobasco and it was pretty hot, so the girls cut it with Sweet Baby Ray's. i also made B Flay's Jicama Slaw from last weekends show. Pretty good. We topped it off with Watermelon Margaritas (also from B Flay).

[willkat98]

Just rubbed down four giant chicken boobs, boneless, with Grub Rub.

Gonna crack out the kettle and smoke/grill them

Mostly hickory, shooting for around 280* range for 2 hours or so.

forgot to grab the camera

opened up the kettle after 2 hours, and we were in heaven

Big Bob Gibson read sauce for 10 minutes, closed the dampers, and then added sides of corn on the cob (this is just now available to us Yankees)

Great dinner.

Love this kettle. Call it my Quick smoker on nights like this

[icemn62]

Did some ribs on Sunday for dinner Sunday nite. Had to run an errand, and by the time I got back the family was already eatting. My son does not like Saauce on his ribs, and he and I both like the meat to be slightly spicey. Wife daughters and son-in-law (baby's daddy) prefers heavy sauce, and more to the sweet. Of course everybody eat the wrong set of slabs. Son complained there was too much sauce, the rest were complaining the meat was too spicey. I just laughed at them. The one redeeming quality, The wife who tried both, liked the saucey ribs, felt the non sauced ribs were just a bit Hot. Grandson did not get any, they had already gave him baby food and ruined his chance for some ribs. Now 1 Daughter says she does not like pork ribs, the other daughter wanted to learn how to smoke meat, till she saw how long it took. In any case, I love the ribs and the folks here at work are mad that I did not bring them some. If I give them ribs, I won't have enough to last me for lunch.

[Mark]

Bill's weiner is infested.

Pass it on.

[jsmoker]

Did 3 - 10lb briskets and 2 - 7.5 lb shoulders for a block party. Fired up the BSKD at 5 am and had most of the neighbors out of their beds by 6:30 seeing what the great smell was. Never done that much meat at one time but the foil and cooler approach made it a breeze. Brisket was as close to nirvana as I've gotten yet and the shoulder was decent (done better, but everybody ate the $@%^ out of it).

Biggest problem with the whole deal was everyone requested take-homes so there was nothing left for me for Sunday leftovers!!! One mistake I won't make again! :evil: