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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 #800 on: July 10, 2017, 11:18:11 AM »
Smoked chicken is overrated
How was it rated.
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Re: Smoking Meats
« Reply #801 on: July 10, 2017, 12:25:43 PM »
Ever smoke a tongue?

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Re: Smoking Meats
« Reply #802 on: July 10, 2017, 07:42:25 PM »
Smoked chicken is better than smoked ribs, or brisket. 

You must be doing it wrong.  Remember to kill the chicken first.
How was it rated.
What a stupid thing to say. Maybe to you it is, but blanket statements are simply dumb. It's cheap and tastes awesome to me.
I've done it several times followed all the rules. slow cooked chicken (beer can or similar) is much better then smoked chicken.

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Re: Smoking Meats
« Reply #803 on: July 10, 2017, 07:43:09 PM »
Smoked chicken is better than smoked ribs, or brisket. 

You must be doing it wrong.  Remember to kill the chicken first.
This is so absurd I don't even know what to say.

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Re: Smoking Meats
« Reply #804 on: July 10, 2017, 07:45:26 PM »
This is so absurd I don't even know what to say.
You've never read any of henche's posts before?
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Re: Smoking Meats
« Reply #805 on: July 10, 2017, 07:47:29 PM »
I've done it several times followed all the rules. slow cooked chicken (beer can or similar) is much better then smoked chicken.
There's nothing like smoked chicken if you do it right. What "rules" did you follow?

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Re: Smoking Meats
« Reply #806 on: July 10, 2017, 07:47:29 PM »
You've never read any of henche's posts before?
True but we are talking about smoking this is real. Also he smokes on a pbs the smoke that comes from that is different smoke then the smoke that comes from wood.

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Re: Smoking Meats
« Reply #807 on: July 10, 2017, 07:47:51 PM »
There's nothing like smoked chicken if you do it right. What "rules" did you follow?
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Re: Smoking Meats
« Reply #811 on: July 10, 2017, 07:53:40 PM »
That's why i said or similar
You have every right to prefer roasted chicken to smoked. If you are using charcoal it is somewhat smoked anyhow.
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« Reply #812 on: July 11, 2017, 10:59:48 AM »
True but we are talking about smoking this is real. Also he smokes on a pbs the smoke that comes from that is different smoke then the smoke that comes from wood.

Yah, and it's excellent. 

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Re: Smoking Meats
« Reply #814 on: July 11, 2017, 11:08:55 AM »
Here, just watch this video https://www.pitbarrelcooker.com/videos/signature-chicken

But I cook it whole; I don't spatchcock it. Even though Meathead insists you should.

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Re: Smoking Meats
« Reply #815 on: July 11, 2017, 01:53:42 PM »
Here, just watch this video https://www.pitbarrelcooker.com/videos/signature-chicken

But I cook it whole; I don't spatchcock it. Even though Meathead insists you should.
Looks great! Like I said pbs is different

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Re: Smoking Meats
« Reply #816 on: July 11, 2017, 03:05:19 PM »
Looks great! Like I said pbs is different

Try running  your smoker at like 300.

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Re: Smoking Meats
« Reply #817 on: July 11, 2017, 03:42:59 PM »
Talking about smoking meats on a fast day is just to much for me.
The quieter you are, the more you are able to hear.

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Re: Smoking Meats
« Reply #818 on: July 11, 2017, 04:19:56 PM »
Talking about smoking meats on a fast day is just to much for me.

so don't read. on a fast day
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Re: Smoking Meats
« Reply #819 on: July 11, 2017, 05:37:57 PM »
Talking about smoking meats on a fast day is just to much for me.

If you don't smoke on fast day, how you eat smoked meat after fast day?