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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 #1520 on: March 07, 2018, 04:07:20 PM »
Yes. Then on Friday afternoon, you pull one out, let it defrost, and serve.
You never froze meat after cooked?
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Re: Smoking Meats
« Reply #1521 on: March 07, 2018, 04:10:19 PM »
Does that sound like a joke?
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Re: Smoking Meats
« Reply #1522 on: March 09, 2018, 01:22:38 PM »
interesting thread, I also have the same question

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Re: Smoking Meats
« Reply #1523 on: March 10, 2018, 10:14:34 PM »
interesting thread, I also have the same question
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Re: Smoking Meats
« Reply #1524 on: March 10, 2018, 10:16:56 PM »
Huh

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Re: Smoking Meats
« Reply #1525 on: March 12, 2018, 12:04:01 PM »
Here's a review of my cook.

I trimmed some fat but I really liked buying the untrimmed second cut, the outer fat protects the meat from drying out. The beef was still a little frozen when I started.

I was cooking at 225-240 for most of the first part. it stalled at around 140's and stayed there till I covered it and bumped up the temp (5 hours in). I think this was my mistake, as opposed to covering it sooner.

After I covered it i bumped up the temp to 270 and it started climbing. At about 7 hours in I got nervous because I was only planning to cook for 6.5 hours as I had 6.5 lbs. and I have a long history of overcooking these. So at 7 hours it was reading 180 and it passed a tender test (fork twist) and I conceded and lowered the temp to 150 to begin resting hoping it would climb another 10 degrees- to 190 which it didn't. 20 min later I sliced an amazing piece of brisket

I know 210 is where I want to be but even when I took it off some parts were dry and I wonder how to get it to temp and not to dry out while cooking for that long. Though all in all dryness was not my problem, the fats didnt break down completely and some parts where only chewable.

Other parts were just below perfect in respects to tenderness. The flavor all around was amazing and the bark was delicious (salt and pepper)



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Re: Smoking Meats
« Reply #1526 on: March 12, 2018, 01:55:58 PM »
Here's a review of my cook.

I trimmed some fat but I really liked buying the untrimmed second cut, the outer fat protects the meat from drying out. The beef was still a little frozen when I started.

I was cooking at 225-240 for most of the first part. it stalled at around 140's and stayed there till I covered it and bumped up the temp (5 hours in). I think this was my mistake, as opposed to covering it sooner.

After I covered it i bumped up the temp to 270 and it started climbing. At about 7 hours in I got nervous because I was only planning to cook for 6.5 hours as I had 6.5 lbs. and I have a long history of overcooking these. So at 7 hours it was reading 180 and it passed a tender test (fork twist) and I conceded and lowered the temp to 150 to begin resting hoping it would climb another 10 degrees- to 190 which it didn't. 20 min later I sliced an amazing piece of brisket

I know 210 is where I want to be but even when I took it off some parts were dry and I wonder how to get it to temp and not to dry out while cooking for that long. Though all in all dryness was not my problem, the fats didnt break down completely and some parts where only chewable.

Other parts were just below perfect in respects to tenderness. The flavor all around was amazing and the bark was delicious (salt and pepper)
If it was great now imagine if u cooked it all the way and let it rest properly.

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Re: Smoking Meats
« Reply #1527 on: March 12, 2018, 02:55:03 PM »
how long do you usually rest it for?

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Re: Smoking Meats
« Reply #1528 on: March 12, 2018, 03:02:47 PM »
At least 2 hours
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Re: Smoking Meats
« Reply #1529 on: March 12, 2018, 03:17:25 PM »
At least 2 hours
+1  Although you should rest at least an hour in worst case.  it really makes the difference
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Re: Smoking Meats
« Reply #1530 on: March 12, 2018, 05:36:15 PM »
the picture looks pretty good no?

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Re: Smoking Meats
« Reply #1531 on: March 21, 2018, 11:25:45 AM »
the picture looks pretty good no?
looks delicious.
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Re: Smoking Meats
« Reply #1532 on: March 25, 2018, 08:44:38 PM »
Cleaning out the freezer for pesach
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« Reply #1533 on: March 25, 2018, 09:49:39 PM »
Cleaning out the freezer for pesach
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Re: Smoking Meats
« Reply #1534 on: March 25, 2018, 09:53:44 PM »
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Unfortunately it wasn't quite soft enough. I pulled at about190.
It cooked for about 8 hours. I wrapped after 3 as it was coming out of the stall but once wrapped it really stalled. After 2.5 hours of dropping temp I gave up and unwrapped but time was running out and I couldn't quite get it to 203.parts got up there but the thickest didn't make it.
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« Reply #1535 on: March 25, 2018, 10:20:38 PM »
Unfortunately it wasn't quite soft enough. I pulled at about190.
It cooked for about 8 hours. I wrapped after 3 as it was coming out of the stall but once wrapped it really stalled. After 2.5 hours of dropping temp I gave up and unwrapped but time was running out and I couldn't quite get it to 203.parts got up there but the thickest didn't make it.
Next time I don't wrap.
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« Reply #1536 on: March 25, 2018, 10:25:24 PM »
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« Reply #1537 on: March 25, 2018, 10:28:49 PM »
Yup. 0 for 5 or something
It looks to me u are on the money.... just need a little more time. (U have no time)  sorry just thinking of Denzel

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« Reply #1538 on: March 25, 2018, 10:40:46 PM »
It looks to me u are on the money.... just need a little more time. (U have no time)  sorry just thinking of Denzel
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Re: Smoking Meats
« Reply #1539 on: March 25, 2018, 10:46:10 PM »
Yup. That's always the story
Can we figure out what the issue is? Btw after wrapping nothing wrong with putting it in the oven