Smoking & Grilling

@Jonathon I can relate. When I was learning how to grill in the beginning I would keep putting on sauce on the chicken and ribs as they cooked and couldn’t understand why the tasted the same with all that burned sauce on them. LOL

Thanks Guys! Much appreciated

@Departing-Contestant said in Pork Ribs?: don’t mess with vinegar spritzes. leave the lid closed Hear, hear!

@johnsbrewhouse Got it Thank you

@syoung4u

I use vinegar and water 5050 to clean the glass door and the I use an Orange Citris cleaner which many hardware stores may carry. It really cuts into the smoke and grease. I then wipe the glass door down again with the vinegar and water. I leave the sides alone.

@JerkyMan Yeah, that’s way more water than you needed. For someone who is letting it marinate overnight we recommend you add just enough water to completely submerge the jerky. With a tumbler, you really only need 20% of your meats weight, and that is at most. You did a 1:1, so next time go down to 12 oz of water and see how that goes. The seasoning was diluted in so much water that im not surprised it didnt taste like anything!

@PapaSop I didn’t wrap my meat once…the result of that incident turns 21 in December.

@Denny I bet that between your eyes and the people who eat your product you’re stuff is pretty much “spot on”. Keep on making people happy.

Just so anyone in the market knows Fireboard has came out with a Fireboard 2.0 now, it looks to improve upon the great success they have had on their original model.

@davep1313 You hit the reply button below not the Post quick reply one. That should open a new window and that will allow you to post a pic. if that doesnt work email me at jonathon@waltonsinc.com and I will get it posted for you!

Thanks Joe sounds like that will be easier to find.

@JerkyMan If you haven’t watched some of the videos on this site about ramping up the temps from a lower setting I highly recommend that you do, I used to set my smoker at around 200 and run until done, now I ramp up the temp and I think it makes a better product.

@fourgonefishn I have electric, gas and stick smokers. My electric MasterBuilt is the best insulated of the bunch and is a set it and forget it. The other two you will learn their Idiocracies by the need to constantly tweak draft, fuel, ect… against what the weather God is doing that day. Then there is always the need to make sure sure that you have fuel to finish the job. But I can also smoke/cook w/o power. Long story…A quality electric will work well for what you are planning and then some. I you like to tinker or want to sit around a smoker with a bottle and maybe some friends the other types will keep you tinkering.

@spanky Not on a traeger but with a GMG propping the lid can help you maintain lower temps for the first hour. It takes some experimentation but I’m pretty sure we eventually found a way to stabilize it around 120°

@Jonathon great info, I can’t thank you enough for your time an info, I will try these suggestions. Also the Meatgistics Univ. video’s and articles have been great, keep them coming love them, God Bless and y’all stay safe. Will update on next batch.

@Jonathon the wife and I are a bit frustrated when the gym closed. The weather up here has been cold and snowy and have a little bit of work out equipment. Just making do with what we have and have been looking at TRX style of equipment. Learned a lot of body weight exercises from my previous career of being on the road.

Just did jumbo’s last evening, some just on bamboo skewers, some slightly butterfly added a strip of jalapeno and wrapped in a thin strip of bacon, and some wrapped with pineapple with and without jap. The pineapple jap were the best to me, wife like the plain pineapple ones ,grilled. yum

@Joe1 Yup, I made them out of the Mexi Chorizo and I used about 22 lb of meat to a full bag (as this is not designed for a cured sausage I wanted to make sure the salt content was high enough in the meat) sure gel and stuffed them into 19mm sticks. Very tasty sticks!

@poppaschmuck If you are making a cured and smoked sausage I would add water for sure. If you are using a binder or something like Carrot Fiber you can add 1.5 quarts easily and could go as high as 2 per 25 lb of meat. Without a binder I wouldn’t add more than a quart. If you don’t add any water the mixing and protein extraction will be difficult and you could end up with a dry product when it is finished cooking.