The OFFICIAL meat smoking thread
Posted: February 28 14, 3:17 pm
It's been a long winter, and about sometime in January I really started jonesing for a good day of drinking beer, watching baseball, and smoking some sort of meat which is really my excuse to sit on the deck all day and do the two former things. Then, my brother came down last weekend and told me how awesome he was at it, and despite how decent I've become, I had to admit, he was better. So...now I have to improve.
Anyway, pointers, stories, successes, failures, etc. Post em here.
I think we're going to start off with a pork butt this weekend. Dry rub overnight. No marinade. Inject with an oily based mixture of the dry run. Smoke with indirect heat for 2.5 hours at 225-240 using charcoal and apple and hickory wood. Keep on charcoal indirect heat 210-225 for 3 hours. Cover with foil and keep on indirect heat until just shy of 170 internal temp (presumably a couple hours). Then steam it for an hour over apple juice until the temp hits 170.
In the past I've always had a good outside, nice and crispy. But the inside was a little tougher. Not bad, but not as tender as you'd like. My brother thought it needed longer on the indirect heat and thought foil would help with that. So...we'll see.
Regardless, the process is awesome and I can't wait to get back to it.
Anyway, pointers, stories, successes, failures, etc. Post em here.
I think we're going to start off with a pork butt this weekend. Dry rub overnight. No marinade. Inject with an oily based mixture of the dry run. Smoke with indirect heat for 2.5 hours at 225-240 using charcoal and apple and hickory wood. Keep on charcoal indirect heat 210-225 for 3 hours. Cover with foil and keep on indirect heat until just shy of 170 internal temp (presumably a couple hours). Then steam it for an hour over apple juice until the temp hits 170.
In the past I've always had a good outside, nice and crispy. But the inside was a little tougher. Not bad, but not as tender as you'd like. My brother thought it needed longer on the indirect heat and thought foil would help with that. So...we'll see.
Regardless, the process is awesome and I can't wait to get back to it.