My BBQ and Smoker Thread

[Patrick]

This may be abusing General Chat a bit, but I wanted to make a thread anyway.

Brisket-01 Finished:


St. Louis Ribs-01 Finished Using 3-2-1 Cooking (needed a bit longer as a note to myself):


Brisket-02 At the 8-hour mark:


Hopefully eating this one in an hour or so. Started prepping the brisket at 22:00 last night. In the smoker at 225F just after midnight. This picture is from just before butcher paper wrap at 8AM.

 

[i386]

Are you using a pellet smoker?

 

[William]

Nice job Patrick, looks great !!

 

[pricklypunter]

Mmmm...tasty

 

[Patrick]

@i386 Yes. Currently a Pit Boss Pro 4 from Lowes. I might end up with a GMG Jim Bowie next week.

 

[Styp]

Delicious

 

[cesmith9999]

@Patrick what is your address? You might have a few people home for dinner...

Chris

 

[Patrick]

Ha! The brisket that started as 11.7lb ended up gone within 10 minutes of cutting it up yesterday.

 

[William]

HAHAA Good stuff !!

 

[Patrick]

Today's baby back ribs.

 

[William]

Those look great !!

 

[cesmith9999]

Address please.

Chris

 

[Prof_G]

Patrick is also looking into starting Pat’s Smoke House Sammich shop.

So would you buy the Lowe’s unit again?

 

[Patrick]

Here is another recent cook



@Prof_G - It was a good first smoker, but I realized I really wanted a bigger single grate so I can do larger briskets (the Pit Boss was just about out of room on a 14-15lb brisket.)

So today, I did the most #HomeLab thing ever and the Jim Bowie Prime Plus just showed up.


For the price, the Pit Boss has worked well. For 225F cooks, it worked well. Getting into 275-300F it struggled a bit more. This is more of jumping maybe 1-2 tiers in smokers to something much more substantial.

 

[blinkenlights]

Wow... I bet you are the most popular guy on the block.. unless all of your neighbors are vegan, a distinct possibility in Cali!

This may be abusing General Chat a bit, but I wanted to make a thread anyway.

Your house, your rules @Patrick but, honestly, I like to see this type of content. I am old enough to remember when the Internet (and other message boards) was less about personal branding and more about the human connection - good, bad, and ugly. It seems like the type of thing we could all use nowadays.

 

[Evan]

My only complaint is that it’s making me damn hungry and can’t get any good brisket or pastrami here
If I had the space (or not living on apartment/condo) I would have my own as well.

 

[William]

WOW very nice Patrick !!
The new server... err... smoker is huge !

 

[WANg]

WOW very nice Patrick !!
The new server... err... smoker is huge !

Heh. We should chip in and buy @Patrick an old HP Integrity Superdome or EMC Isilon chassis (or something similarly big and server-y) to house that smoker. It's just not STH if hes not serving 'cue off a server at home.

 

[Patrick]

@WANg it is very hard for me to describe how much I love that idea.

 

[blinkenlights]

Heh. We should chip in and buy @Patrick an old HP Integrity Superdome or EMC Isilon chassis (or something similarly big and server-y) to house that smoker. It's just not STH if hes not serving 'cue off a server at home.

Hey, go big (iron) or go home! If this kid can snag a z890 for $237, surely Patrick can negotiate a better deal: This Teenage IBM Employee Got His Job By Buying An Old Mainframe Computer