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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 #380 on: June 19, 2016, 07:15:55 PM »
I'm smoking some cedar planked brown sugar salmon right now.

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Re: Smoking Meats
« Reply #381 on: June 19, 2016, 07:30:26 PM »
I'm smoking some cedar planked brown sugar salmon right now.
No kashrus issues with using the same smoker for meat and fish? I always wondered that
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Re: Smoking Meats
« Reply #382 on: June 19, 2016, 07:33:27 PM »
No kashrus issues with using the same smoker for meat and fish? I always wondered that

There's a serious taste issue if you let any fish juice drip. That's part of why I'm do the cedar plank.

I don't see an issue. Do you not bake fish in a fleishig oven? That's all I'm doing.   

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Re: Smoking Meats
« Reply #383 on: June 19, 2016, 09:19:16 PM »
Anybody try smoking chicken breast with "bacon" strips on top ?  Hoe about meatloaf ?

Just did some chicken bottoms Ala amazing ribs Simon and Garfunkel recipe. Not as earthy as I thought it would be (which is good)  cane out great

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Re: Smoking Meats
« Reply #384 on: June 19, 2016, 09:20:37 PM »
I'm on the market for an instant read thermometer. Any reason to splurge on the newest thermaworks pen or can I get their 20 dollar pop?

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Re: Smoking Meats
« Reply #385 on: June 19, 2016, 11:11:52 PM »
Seasons Lakewood has 2nd cut brisket this week for 6.99 a lb

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Re: Smoking Meats
« Reply #386 on: June 19, 2016, 11:41:53 PM »
No kashrus issues with using the same smoker for meat and fish? I always wondered that
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Re: Smoking Meats
« Reply #387 on: June 20, 2016, 01:41:53 PM »
Bought some jerk seasoning to make jerk chicken. https://www.spicejungle.com/jerk-seasoning

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Re: Smoking Meats
« Reply #388 on: June 20, 2016, 06:58:16 PM »
Bought some jerk seasoning to make jerk chicken. https://www.spicejungle.com/jerk-seasoning

try the simon and garfunkle rub.

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« Reply #389 on: June 20, 2016, 06:58:40 PM »
I'm on the market for an instant read thermometer. Any reason to splurge on the newest thermaworks pen or can I get their 20 dollar pop?

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Re: Smoking Meats
« Reply #391 on: June 22, 2016, 09:04:29 PM »
 smoked  a chicken breast wrapped in lamb baacon.

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« Reply #392 on: June 22, 2016, 09:05:55 PM »
smoked  a chicken breast wrapped in lamb baacon.
Good?
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Re: Smoking Meats
« Reply #393 on: June 22, 2016, 09:07:44 PM »
Good?
The parts that were covered with the bacon were great, the other part was a tad dry.

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« Reply #394 on: June 22, 2016, 09:08:49 PM »
The parts that were covered with the bacon were great, the other part was a tad dry.
Good to know. If I try it I'll make sure to fully wrap it
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Re: Smoking Meats
« Reply #395 on: June 22, 2016, 09:10:17 PM »
Good to know. If I try it I'll make sure to fully wrap it
Yeah i also cooked it too fast, try keeping it at 220 for 2hrs

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Re: Smoking Meats
« Reply #396 on: June 23, 2016, 02:25:53 AM »
Smoking meat,it is delicious,also I don't know how to make it
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Re: Smoking Meats
« Reply #397 on: June 23, 2016, 10:46:35 AM »
The parts that were covered with the bacon were great, the other part was a tad dry.

if you covered the whole thing, would the smoke get through the bacon?

I don't usually smoke boneless chicken.  whole chickens smoke so well.

I did once smoke a couple of chicken breasts as pastrami that I'd made for no reason when I was making a brisket pastrami. they were good--not as good as the brisket.

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« Reply #398 on: June 24, 2016, 06:27:40 PM »
if you covered the whole thing, would the smoke get through the bacon?

I don't usually smoke boneless chicken.  whole chickens smoke so well.

I did once smoke a couple of chicken breasts as pastrami that I'd made for no reason when I was making a brisket pastrami. they were good--not as good as the brisket.
You dont actually wrap them, realy only supposed to cover them with the bacon so that the fat from the bacon renders and keeps the chicken moist.
I agree, whole chicken is far better smoked than chicken breasts.

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Re: Smoking Meats
« Reply #399 on: June 25, 2016, 10:07:53 PM »
You dont actually wrap them, realy only supposed to cover them with the bacon so that the fat from the bacon renders and keeps the chicken moist.
I agree, whole chicken is far better smoked than chicken breasts.

You're supposed to butcher the chicken before smoking. Tops and bottoms go to different temperatures