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Best first time smoked ribs/brisket recipe: https://amazingribs.com/tested-recipes/spice-rubs-and-pastes/big-bad-beef-rub-recipe

Chickens taste better when cooked whole. Pickles taste better cut. Sandwiches taste better cut and bitten from inside. Meat tastes better sliced against grain.


Definitely a smoker is a personal choice, and what is better depends on what you are looking for.  I say it's a balance of goals, between: (i) making good food, (ii) making authentic BBQ, (iii) having fun with the maaseh of smoking, and (iv) convenience.  Items (iii) and (iv) don't only conflict, they directly oppose each other.

I opted for items (i) and (iv) so went PBC.  I would say WSM is also mostly a (i) and (iv) choice, but it brings in extra elements of (ii) and (iii), at a slight cost to (iv).  Maybe WSM also better at (i)--I have no idea either way.

Further to the above:

If all you want is good food, get a sous vide.

If all you want is authentic BBQ, get a huge offset smoker that you feed with split logs.

If all you want is having fun with the maaseh of smoking, again, get a huge offset smoker.

If all you want is convenience, use your oven.


Henche's PBC review
https://forums.dansdeals.com/index.php?topic=43018.msg1439199#msg1439199
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Re: Smoking Meats
« Reply #300 on: March 23, 2016, 11:27:37 PM »
How long pickled and rubbed? Pickled for 5 days and rubbed for 2
How long you smoke them for ?

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« Reply #301 on: March 23, 2016, 11:43:52 PM »
How long you smoke them for ?

I'm gonna do about 3 hours, then steam them tonorrow. Recipe from amazing ribs.

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« Reply #302 on: March 24, 2016, 01:25:42 AM »
I ditched the smoking a brisket. Decided to do a rib roast with method X (weight x5 min on 500 2 hours resting in the oven off) any one try this I hear Good things (

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« Reply #303 on: March 24, 2016, 02:20:53 AM »
I ditched the smoking a brisket. Decided to do a rib roast with method X (weight x5 min on 500 2 hours resting in the oven off) any one try this I hear Good things (
Report back how it was or better yet invite us over for some

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« Reply #304 on: March 24, 2016, 06:35:21 AM »
I ditched the smoking a brisket. Decided to do a rib roast with method X (weight x5 min on 500 2 hours resting in the oven off) any one try this I hear Good things (
Tried something similar once, came out great.

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« Reply #305 on: March 24, 2016, 07:49:22 AM »

Report back how it was or better yet invite us over for some
A 15 lb rib roast I will

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« Reply #306 on: March 25, 2016, 10:22:59 AM »

Report back how it was or better yet invite us over for some
Rib roast was sick, method x sounds odd but really works great. Mid-rare rib roast with no thermometer no worries and no checking on it. Something to look into if ever springing for a rib roast 

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« Reply #307 on: March 25, 2016, 02:45:57 PM »
Rib roast was sick, method x sounds odd but really works great. Mid-rare rib roast with no thermometer no worries and no checking on it. Something to look into if ever springing for a rib roast

Is that for starting from room temp, or from fridge?

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« Reply #308 on: March 25, 2016, 02:47:28 PM »
Rib roast was sick, method x sounds odd but really works great. Mid-rare rib roast with no thermometer no worries and no checking on it. Something to look into if ever springing for a rib roast
You use a rub ?

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« Reply #309 on: March 25, 2016, 02:57:57 PM »
Start from room temp, I left it out over night. I made a rub up. YouTube method x it's all over the place

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« Reply #310 on: March 26, 2016, 11:32:49 PM »
Pastrami was pretty good, although, it was a lot closer to corned beef than to pastrami.  I'm thinking next time to smoke it longer.

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« Reply #311 on: April 08, 2016, 10:21:36 AM »
Short ribs

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« Reply #312 on: April 13, 2016, 01:20:50 AM »
I will be smoking for a Sheva brachot tomorrow will be doing 2 second cut and a first cut little nervous on the fist cut never did one before

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« Reply #313 on: April 13, 2016, 01:36:38 AM »
I will be smoking for a Sheva brachot tomorrow will be doing 2 second cut and a first cut little nervous on the fist cut never did one before


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Re: Smoking Meats
« Reply #314 on: May 09, 2016, 03:08:37 PM »
Read through the thread. So what's the consensus on the best beginner smoker?
Thinking of getting one for my dad for father's day and leaning towards the Weber Smokey Mountain. Any thoughts?

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« Reply #315 on: May 09, 2016, 03:18:10 PM »
Read through the thread. So what's the consensus on the best beginner smoker?
Thinking of getting one for my dad for father's day and leaning towards the Weber Smokey Mountain. Any thoughts?

Can't go wrong with that.

I got the PBC and love it. Set and forget.

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« Reply #316 on: May 09, 2016, 03:26:09 PM »
Can't go wrong with that.

I got the PBC and love it. Set and forget.
Do you use any kind of wood chips with WSM or just straight charcoal?

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Re: Smoking Meats
« Reply #317 on: May 10, 2016, 10:53:01 PM »
Read through the thread. So what's the consensus on the best beginner smoker?
Thinking of getting one for my dad for father's day and leaning towards the Weber Smokey Mountain. Any thoughts?
I use the Pit Barrel. Some say it is not real smoking but I have only successes with it. I did chicken, brisket, ribs, and entire Turkey (I think it was like 10 or 14 pounds). I use both Kingsford briquettes and wood chunks.

The Pit Barrel website has great video instructions as well.

An amazing website is www.AmazingRibs.com. They have reviews on every type of smoker and all the gadgets along with a wealth of information about anything barbeque.

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« Reply #318 on: May 19, 2016, 08:51:50 PM »
All ready to go in the smoker tomorrow morning.

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« Reply #319 on: May 20, 2016, 12:34:14 AM »
All ready to go in the smoker tomorrow morning.
Wow how did u get such a fat cap? ( assuming it's a brisket). With kosher meat it all comes from the plants pre cut with very little fat in top