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After a lot of pondering I finally ordered a Pit Barrel Cooker...
It arrived beautifully packaged and I was so excited to get going on my first cook. I decided to do a trip tip and baby backs.
The set up: Kindsford Original with about four baseball size chunks of Mesquite. a 2.5lb Trip Tip and One Rack of Ribs.
I lit the coals using the chimney method with about 40 briquets in the chimney and then poured them over the rest of the coals which consisted of about a little less than half the basket. In total the basket was not filled. I thought I could get away with not using the whole basket since I was doing a short cook and I wanted to squeeze out the rest of my Kingsford for another cook, so I shorted the basket. It was a mistake.
For the trip tip I used my own rub and for the ribs I used the Pit Barrel Rub.
As the online video said to use.
Everything turned out good, but I learned something. Do not undercut the basket of coals. I think it would served me better to have the whole basket full of coals like Noah at PBC recommends. While the trip tip was incredibly moist and tender, it didn't have much of an outer bark - would you call it a bark?. The flavor was incredible and loved the smoky quality from the mesquite. It took about 50 mins, which was longer than suggested which, because I don't have a thermometer I don't know, meant that I had lower temps. All and all I was still impressed.
The ribs turned out nicely (pics attached). They cooked about 2.5 hours. I thought it would have a little more smoke ring... my kids destroyed them. I used a new bbq sauce called Rufus Teague that I liked a lot buy my wife didn't. She thought the ribs were more salty then usual, and I'm thinking it was from the Rub. In the video Noah says he likes a lot of salt. I generally use my own rub that doesn't consist of a lot of salt and has a hint of thyme. Anyway, I thought they were delicious.
I hope I didn't miss anything. Next stop half chickens!
It arrived beautifully packaged and I was so excited to get going on my first cook. I decided to do a trip tip and baby backs.
The set up: Kindsford Original with about four baseball size chunks of Mesquite. a 2.5lb Trip Tip and One Rack of Ribs.
I lit the coals using the chimney method with about 40 briquets in the chimney and then poured them over the rest of the coals which consisted of about a little less than half the basket. In total the basket was not filled. I thought I could get away with not using the whole basket since I was doing a short cook and I wanted to squeeze out the rest of my Kingsford for another cook, so I shorted the basket. It was a mistake.
For the trip tip I used my own rub and for the ribs I used the Pit Barrel Rub.
As the online video said to use.
Everything turned out good, but I learned something. Do not undercut the basket of coals. I think it would served me better to have the whole basket full of coals like Noah at PBC recommends. While the trip tip was incredibly moist and tender, it didn't have much of an outer bark - would you call it a bark?. The flavor was incredible and loved the smoky quality from the mesquite. It took about 50 mins, which was longer than suggested which, because I don't have a thermometer I don't know, meant that I had lower temps. All and all I was still impressed.
The ribs turned out nicely (pics attached). They cooked about 2.5 hours. I thought it would have a little more smoke ring... my kids destroyed them. I used a new bbq sauce called Rufus Teague that I liked a lot buy my wife didn't. She thought the ribs were more salty then usual, and I'm thinking it was from the Rub. In the video Noah says he likes a lot of salt. I generally use my own rub that doesn't consist of a lot of salt and has a hint of thyme. Anyway, I thought they were delicious.
I hope I didn't miss anything. Next stop half chickens!
