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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.


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Re: Smoking Meats
« Reply #2240 on: August 01, 2024, 02:17:31 PM »
you would probably need to have a timer so the power turns off before you open it

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Re: Smoking Meats
« Reply #2241 on: August 01, 2024, 02:17:52 PM »
Not sure of chabad specifi holdings, but when I asked I was told it's an oven. So treat as such and don't open and once you open then take it off.
On my wsm I just leave it uncovered once I take out the meat and let it die down
How do you do Gerufah and Ketumah on the exposed coals?

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Re: Smoking Meats
« Reply #2242 on: August 01, 2024, 02:21:54 PM »
Not sure of chabad specifi holdings, but when I asked I was told it's an oven. So treat as such and don't open and once you open then take it off.
On my wsm I just leave it uncovered once I take out the meat and let it die down
Right, for sure wouldn't check on it. Only open once to take it off.
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Re: Smoking Meats
« Reply #2243 on: August 01, 2024, 02:23:03 PM »
you would probably need to have a timer so the power turns off before you open it
Why's that?

How do you do Gerufah and Ketumah on the exposed coals?

There is nothing exposed, on mine the wood pellets are in a side thing. Could cover the the whole side thing with foil I suppose if needed.
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Re: Smoking Meats
« Reply #2244 on: August 01, 2024, 02:26:31 PM »
Why's that?

doesn't the fan turn on and off when you open it?

There is nothing exposed, on mine the wood pellets are in a side thing. Could cover the the whole side thing with foil I suppose if needed.
was thinking that. the burn box is buried. but dunno all the halachos of shehia

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« Reply #2245 on: August 01, 2024, 02:27:07 PM »
doesn't the fan turn on and off when you open it?
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Re: Smoking Meats
« Reply #2246 on: August 01, 2024, 02:27:37 PM »
was thinking that. the burn box is buried. but dunno all the halachos of shehia
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Re: Smoking Meats
« Reply #2247 on: August 01, 2024, 02:30:52 PM »
No.

so i guess it would be the same stance as taking something out of the sous vide bath.

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Re: Smoking Meats
« Reply #2248 on: August 01, 2024, 04:30:55 PM »
1. For tzli garuf vkatum doesn't work in most cases and it would need to be maachal ban drusai before shabbos.

2.In a smoker that opening will allow the coals to flare up with the rush of air it can be a problem to open as long as the coals are burning.

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Re: Smoking Meats
« Reply #2249 on: August 01, 2024, 04:32:11 PM »
How do you do Gerufah and Ketumah on the exposed coals?


IN a case where it would work, you do it the way they did for 2000 years-by being goref or kotem.
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Re: Smoking Meats
« Reply #2250 on: August 01, 2024, 04:34:57 PM »
IN a case where it would work, you do it the way they did for 200 years-by being goref or kotem.
that's exactly my point. lol

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Re: Smoking Meats
« Reply #2251 on: August 01, 2024, 04:35:42 PM »
1. For tzli garuf vkatum doesn't work in most cases and it would need to be maachal ban drusai before shabbos.

2.In a smoker that opening will allow the coals to flare up with the rush of air it can be a problem to open as long as the coals are burning.


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Re: Smoking Meats
« Reply #2252 on: August 01, 2024, 05:06:32 PM »
1. For tzli garuf vkatum doesn't work in most cases and it would need to be maachal ban drusai before shabbos.
Source?

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« Reply #2253 on: August 01, 2024, 05:31:07 PM »
Source?
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ETA I realized I may be confusing the difference between chai but I think it is specific that it needs tuach only. Need to look back again.
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« Reply #2254 on: August 01, 2024, 07:17:24 PM »
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ETA I realized I may be confusing the difference between chai but I think it is specific that it needs tuach only. Need to look back again.
AFAIK garuf and Katum works. (Though technically if garuf it can’t really be “tzli”.)

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Re: Smoking Meats
« Reply #2255 on: August 01, 2024, 09:09:31 PM »
AFAIK garuf and Katum works. (Though technically if garuf it can’t really be “tzli”.)


Garuf/katum works just chai doesn't work for tzli.


Why wouldn't it be considered tzli?

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Re: Smoking Meats
« Reply #2256 on: August 01, 2024, 10:47:29 PM »
Why wouldn't it be considered tzli?
The whole ממהר להתבשל  or לא חש לחתות etc doesn’t make sense if there aren’t coals involved

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« Reply #2257 on: August 01, 2024, 11:04:48 PM »
The whole ממהר להתבשל  or לא חש לחתות etc doesn’t make sense if there aren’t coals involved
first of all, garuf can still have coals involved according to many. But either way, Why not? Korban pesach needs a drasha od tzli eish tzli eish twice that it needs to be real fire. Tzliyas kaved is a machlokes haposkim, but again only if you need eish shoeves.
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Re: Smoking Meats
« Reply #2258 on: August 01, 2024, 11:08:55 PM »
first of all, garuf can still have coals involved according to many. But either way, Why not? Korban pesach needs a drasha od tzli eish tzli eish twice that it needs to be real fire. Tzliyas kaved is a machlokes haposkim, but again only if you need eish shoeves.
Not sure what you are bringing out from those places regarding the specific svaros playing out pertaining to חשש חיתוי to which roasting on  the open fire is the crux of the whole Halacha.

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Re: Smoking Meats
« Reply #2259 on: August 02, 2024, 11:44:25 AM »
Ok, I got the all clear from the Rav. Must put it on right before shabbos.

Now the question is...

What temperature do I put the smoker on for a rib eye roast?

Is 160 the lowest safe temperature to use? If so I think that'd be best. Or can I use 140?

It'll be on for around 15 hours.
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