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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 #1040 on: September 24, 2017, 09:36:03 AM »
Question: I want to smoke for yontiff. Usually in Boston they only sell good meat, 8.99 for brisket. Around yontiff you can also get south american meat,  4.99 for any cut they have.  Go for it? Or may as well smoke a football?
I use it to smoke (i also don't have the option to buy American for less then 12.99 lb) but I don't know if u could get a whole brisket

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Re: Smoking Meats
« Reply #1041 on: September 24, 2017, 09:36:37 AM »
Question: I want to smoke for yontiff. Usually in Boston they only sell good meat, 8.99 for brisket. Around yontiff you can also get south american meat,  4.99 for any cut they have.  Go for it? Or may as well smoke a football?
Ime not worth it. Will taste better than a football but not by much.

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Re: Smoking Meats
« Reply #1042 on: September 24, 2017, 10:38:12 AM »
Steaks don't compare. tons of fat chunks, and flavor is blah. For brisket, it might be ok since you want alot of fat cap. Then again, when i go from seasons a second cut with more fat on it i think they gave me american. Said the cheap stuff wouldn't be as good.
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Re: Smoking Meats
« Reply #1043 on: September 24, 2017, 10:40:46 AM »
Question: I want to smoke for yontiff. Usually in Boston they only sell good meat, 8.99 for brisket. Around yontiff you can also get south american meat,  4.99 for any cut they have.  Go for it? Or may as well smoke a football?
Dont! I did that mistake last week.
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Re: Smoking Meats
« Reply #1044 on: September 24, 2017, 10:51:19 AM »
Question: I want to smoke for yontiff. Usually in Boston they only sell good meat, 8.99 for brisket. Around yontiff you can also get south american meat,  4.99 for any cut they have.  Go for it? Or may as well smoke a football?
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Re: Smoking Meats
« Reply #1045 on: September 24, 2017, 12:01:49 PM »
Steaks don't compare. tons of fat chunks, and flavor is blah. For brisket, it might be ok since you want alot of fat cap. Then again, when i go from seasons a second cut with more fat on it i think they gave me american. Said the cheap stuff wouldn't be as good.

Yah, the cheap brisket have no fat cap.

I went expensive

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« Reply #1046 on: October 10, 2017, 09:14:40 PM »
Doing a whole turkey for yom tov. Any suggestions?

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« Reply #1047 on: October 11, 2017, 10:31:00 AM »
Doing a whole turkey for yom tov. Any suggestions?

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« Reply #1048 on: October 11, 2017, 10:31:17 AM »
Watch video how to carve

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« Reply #1049 on: October 11, 2017, 10:31:43 AM »
Don't be shy to use hands to pry breast off bone

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Re: Smoking Meats
« Reply #1050 on: November 16, 2017, 01:40:00 PM »
minon method vs soos donut?
Thoughts?

Doing a 5.5 lb second cut for shabbos in wsm. How long can i expect it to take? planning on running overnight with flameboss on
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« Reply #1051 on: November 16, 2017, 02:12:30 PM »


minon method vs soos donut?
Thoughts?

Doing a 5.5 lb second cut for shabbos in wsm. How long can i expect it to take? planning on running overnight with flameboss on

Personaly, I use the donut in my wsw. Expect aboit 8-10 hrs for 5.5 lb.

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Re: Smoking Meats
« Reply #1052 on: November 16, 2017, 02:19:27 PM »

Personaly, I use the donut in my wsw. Expect aboit 8-10 hrs for 5.5 lb.
the donut is the one where the center is completely empty. Minion pours call on top of unlit in middle right?

you use lump or kbb?
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« Reply #1053 on: November 16, 2017, 02:24:00 PM »
the donut is the one where the center is completely empty. Minion pours call on top of unlit in middle right?

you use lump or kbb?
I pour lit coal into the empties middle.
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« Reply #1054 on: November 16, 2017, 03:02:27 PM »
Brisket on top or bottom grate?
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« Reply #1055 on: November 16, 2017, 03:28:12 PM »
I pour lit coal into the empties middle.
I use kbb

pages from the kelly blue book? Does that burn differently?

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« Reply #1056 on: November 16, 2017, 04:14:37 PM »
Any deals on smokers lately? I want to get one for turkey day and beyond.

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« Reply #1058 on: November 16, 2017, 08:15:12 PM »
Why u going electric? Why not charcoal?
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« Reply #1059 on: November 17, 2017, 12:18:15 AM »
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