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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 #1280 on: January 21, 2018, 06:05:02 PM »
this is pre-wrapping, this bad boy not ready yet.
This is a 3.5 lb second cut I had in there also was perfect. (Except that my rub was a little spicy today)

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Re: Smoking Meats
« Reply #1281 on: January 21, 2018, 11:10:37 PM »
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Re: Smoking Meats
« Reply #1282 on: January 22, 2018, 12:18:36 AM »
How long did it take?
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Re: Smoking Meats
« Reply #1283 on: January 22, 2018, 01:45:06 AM »
How long did it take?
8 hours. Then resting time.

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Re: Smoking Meats
« Reply #1284 on: January 22, 2018, 07:07:31 AM »
At what temp did you wrap, and how long did it take until then?

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Re: Smoking Meats
« Reply #1285 on: January 22, 2018, 07:26:26 AM »
Yah, yah, full report pls.

Also,  how many lb.

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Smoking Meats
« Reply #1286 on: January 22, 2018, 08:20:11 AM »
So to start I was debating if I should hook the point or the flat. I ended hooking the flat with the double hook system. I wrapped at about 150 took 6 hours. Wrapped put in the oven at 300 for another 2 hours till 200. I let it rest in the oven at 150. The point was soft as butter, juicy and delicious. The flat was soft but not as juicy. The end of the point that where right above the coals was dry and burnt. It was Solaman’s total was 14.25 lb to start before trimming.

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Re: Smoking Meats
« Reply #1287 on: January 22, 2018, 11:11:44 AM »
So to start I was debating if I should hook the point or the flat. I ended hooking the flat with the double hook system. I wrapped at about 150 took 6 hours. Wrapped put in the oven at 300 for another 2 hours till 200. I let it rest in the oven at 150. The point was soft as butter, juicy and delicious. The flat was soft but not as juicy. The end of the point that where right above the coals was dry and burnt. It was Solaman’s total was 14.25 lb to start before trimming.

I always do the double hook in the first cut (just seems more secure, and then the fatty part is near the coals).

I wrap at about 150-160 (really, I don't measure temp, I just wait until I feel like it), and then put in oven at 225 so it takes a while longer.

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« Reply #1288 on: January 22, 2018, 01:31:50 PM »
I always do the double hook in the first cut (just seems more secure, and then the fatty part is near the coals).

I wrap at about 150-160 (really, I don't measure temp, I just wait until I feel like it), and then put in oven at 225 so it takes a while longer.
Yea so my thought process was let the thicker part of the brisket be closer to the coals. In retrospect I would have rather burn some of the flat then a nice piece of the point.   

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« Reply #1289 on: January 22, 2018, 01:48:15 PM »
Yea so my thought process was let the thicker part of the brisket be closer to the coals. In retrospect I would have rather burn some of the flat then a nice piece of the point.

Worth trying both ways.


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« Reply #1290 on: January 24, 2018, 02:48:37 PM »
So was it a 3.5 second cut or 14.5 first and second?

Looks amazing! good job... And there is no shame in putting it in the oven after the stall (maybe a little:)

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Re: Smoking Meats
« Reply #1291 on: January 24, 2018, 03:42:05 PM »
wife bought a pre spiced pastrami brisket from cedar market. i didnt care for it when made in oven. thinking maybe to smoke instead. anyone do this? most recipes and directions online are how to do it yourself, cure, etc. do i just throw it on and treat it like a regular brisket? do i smoke till stall then steam it like a real pastrami?
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« Reply #1292 on: January 24, 2018, 03:45:46 PM »
wife bought a pre spiced pastrami brisket from cedar market. i didnt care for it when made in oven. thinking maybe to smoke instead. anyone do this? most recipes and directions online are how to do it yourself, cure, etc. do i just throw it on and treat it like a regular brisket? do i smoke till stall then steam it like a real pastrami?

that's what I'd do

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« Reply #1293 on: January 24, 2018, 04:26:04 PM »
wife bought a pre spiced pastrami brisket from cedar market. i didnt care for it when made in oven. thinking maybe to smoke instead. anyone do this? most recipes and directions online are how to do it yourself, cure, etc. do i just throw it on and treat it like a regular brisket? do i smoke till stall then steam it like a real pastrami?
that's what I'd do
As do I but I use corn beef. Sorry that u area stuck with there crappy spice on it.

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« Reply #1294 on: January 24, 2018, 05:04:17 PM »
As do I but I use corn beef. Sorry that u area stuck with there crappy spice on it.

Pickle it byself. Is easy.

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Re: Smoking Meats
« Reply #1295 on: January 24, 2018, 05:40:46 PM »
you can smoke it all the way through. even through the stall...

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« Reply #1296 on: January 24, 2018, 05:56:17 PM »
Pickle it byself. Is easy.
Yea I have done it. But it’s too hard to plan so far ahead

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Re: Smoking Meats
« Reply #1297 on: January 26, 2018, 12:41:58 PM »
anyone ever smoke a french roast?

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« Reply #1298 on: January 26, 2018, 01:53:13 PM »
anyone ever smoke a french roast?
anything can be smoked. question is if you smoke like brisket to 203 or like rib roast to med rare. Any idea what the non-jewish world calls the cut?
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« Reply #1299 on: January 26, 2018, 02:09:57 PM »
anything can be smoked. question is if you smoke like brisket to 203 or like rib roast to med rare. Any idea what the non-jewish world calls the cut?
Definitely more similar to a rib roast than a brisket
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