Sluggy

Brining is your friend. Cooked many bbqs impromptu and meat is still frozen.

Strong brine solution for a few hours will keep you outta the dog house.
 

Defrosts super fast and I’m convinced defrosting helps draw in flavour from the brine.

Except beef, beef is always better slow defrosted in a dry rub if possible. 
 

Often freeze meat rubbed up so I can defrost it to draw in the flavour.

Don’t ever cook frozen meat though... other than possible death you’re doing yourself an injustice, except 100% burgers 😉

On a side note... dunno why I always get a car park between sentences 🤷‍♂️

Done 👍

In case anyone was interested..

cooked perfectly with the minimum of fuss 😎👍

Busy breaking it in today 
 

Pork loin fillets.

Also doing bacon bombs and a few sausages.

A little overkill for this little thing but I gotta say.. it’s doing absolutely fantastic!!! 
 

Currently using it as it comes, water pan with water but will probably swap it out for a good thick stainless steel heat sink disc.

Bought this to go alongside my wsm as it’s smaller and wanted something that could cope with smaller smokes that will primarily used as ingredients.

Not to mention a little dabble in cold smoking.

Very close !!

Tortilla wraps, shredded white cabbage with my own home made bbq sauce.

9 hours to cook 10 minutes to scoff 😎👍

Job Done😎

Nearly done 😎

Smoked pork needs an accompaniment,

Knocked up a nice Apple pie 😎

Works great, takes a while to heat up at its own speed but I tend to hit it with a blow torch to speed things along.

Once up to temp it’s incredibly stable as a big chunk of steel holds its temp very well.

Hated the water pan as it gave me no room in the coal chamber and found it messed with the temps if water was added. Not too mention wrapping or cleaning the thing
 

I no longer use any moisture in the cooker other than spraying with cider vinegar, can’t see me going back and changing anything again. 
 

The only regret is that I wish I’d bought a bigger plate so I could hang it from the shelf lugs a little lower as that might speed up the initial heating phase.

Fire is.... firing 🤷‍♂️

Piggin’ windy today in sunny Peterborough so should be an “interesting” cook 😎
 

Lights out and awaayyy we go!!

Baffle in place.. if anyone is interested in such things

Smoker is loaded up with Heat beads and a few chunks of wood, namely Hickory and Whisky Oak.

Couple of pork leg joints today!!

Not the best but both were £5-6 in Aldi 

I have removed the skin from 1 but the other is a bit too scrappy and will fall apart.

Rubbed up with Brown sugar, paprika, garlic celery salt, black pepper and a touch of curry powder.

I posted my bbq area in another post that died ... I strapped a couple of fence panels to the sides for this very reason  

Sorry if chicken wings are boring but here we go again.

F1 qualifiers demand a slightly different wing ..

Salt, Pepper, Olive Oil, Chilli flakes, paprika.

Smoked on Traegar Big Game and spritzed with diluted black treacle spray and Apple cider vinegar spray (2 separate sprays) 

That is all .. Thank you.

Did a weird thing earlier for lunch....

done a bit of fish on bbq over the years but watched a chap on tv cook mackerel with a blowtorch!!!

Tried it myself today, absolute revaluation!!!

Hit it skin side with a proper torch and add a squirt of lemon.. job done 🤷‍♂️

This is my current area but looking to build a good solid area.. show me yours and give me ideas.

No excuses needed to cook more pork 😎

Another hour to go before the wok treatment 

Always cook my pulled pork to 96c on my wsm, never had a problem with it. 

I’ll have a look into these.. been wanting to do a bit more fish 👍😎

On 6/7/2020 at 10:14 AM, Smokin Monkey said:

 can get them from Asda, about £2.00 a bag.

This is what @smokeyjoe was on about, most of the guys who attend the BBQ/Tailgate Weekends use these to get Charcoal started.

 

 

Not related to post but wanted to say that I use this exact same cooker with my wok for stir frying my 4 hour smoked chicken wings to add the appropriate sauce. 😎 

Brilliant gadget.

On topic... ditch the instant lighting rubbish and use proper briquettes or lump. Preferably not the common rubbish sold in petrol stations or dodgy garden centres. 
Cheap lump is normally shrapnel and cheap briquettes have too many fillers and smoke way to much.

2000watt paint stripper heat gun.

The air blowing action really does make a huge difference over a blowtorch.

Got fed up with stinky wax lighter cube smoke. 

I only use these from here 

https://www.bbqworld.co.uk/m/heat-beads/australian-heat-beads-4kg-bag.asp

I buy 8 at a time £63 but free delivery next day by DPD