Homemade Cooking

A passion of mine is cooking and recently I have been getting into some good old southern BBQ. I am mainly talking about smoking meats low and slow, but I also enjoy regular grilling too.

Anyone else out there like to smoke meat or BBQ?

 

My family does! When I say my family, I mean mostly my husband.

He's smoked a lot of fun stuff on the Traeger grill. We smoke everything... including our Thanksgiving turkeys and our Easter Ham.

 

Nice! Assume it is a pellet grill?! I have a Kamado Joe Big Joe and a 22 Weber Smokey Mountain myself.

I wanted to smoke the turkey/ham this year for the holidays, but ran out of time.

What is your favorite thing to smoke?

Also how loud is the Traeger? I have heard some models are SUPER loud while others are a lot quieter.

 

Where I'm from BBQ is pork, pulled or chopped, and soaked in a vinegar or vinegar/ketchup based sauce!

 

Yes! We actually stored our regular grill away, ha.

The ham is totally worth the wait, one year my husband and I had a ham cook-off (I cooked one via the oven and he smoked one and let all of our guests choose their favorite), naturally everyone chose the smoked ham.

Prime rib and pork. Whats yours?

Extremely quiet. Quiet enough that I never notice it, anyway.

How loud is yours? Ours is a few years old, and we are in the market for a new one.

Completely random, but we still use it all winter long, and it gets as low as -40 degrees where I live.

 

Funny you say that. A lot of southern say that pork BBQ is supposed to taste good enough without BBQ sauce. I agree, but adding BBQ sauce imo adds more flavors on top of the pork flavor.

I like both sauced and plain pulled pork shoulder. I have had it a couple of times with a plain vinegar sauce. You got any good recipes for a vinegar sauce?

 

I love smoked ham! Yeah next year I'll make sure I have enough time to do a smoke honey ham!

My favorites are prime rib roast, pork shoulder, chicken, pork ribs and beef short ribs. I am still working on my brisket game. It is crazy expensive by me so I only get it on sale so I don’t have as much experience with it.

I do the old school charcoal and wood burning on my Kamado Joe and Weber Smokey mountain. Both completely silent since they burn wood.

I debated getting a pellet because it is a true “set it and forget it”.

I am one of the few in my area who smokes in the winter. Having a ceramic Kamado Joe helps because it holds heat like crazy!

 

Who are these heretics!?! Southerners is a loose term, we take our BBQ very seriously where I'm from (but then again everyone says that in each state). Also, Florida is loosely considered southern so not sure if their opinions count on BBQ haha. You might enjoy this video...

The BBQ Song - Rhett & Link

As far as recipes, I've always had either a family friend make some for me or picked some up at a church BBQ fundraiser. I'll keep my eyes open for you

 

Smoked Salmon using apple wood marinating using brown sugar and sea salt.

 

I would love to make that, but my girlfriend isn’t a fan of seafood.

Mouth watering just thinking about this.

What kind of pit you cooking on @Elmer B Fuddled?

 

Hi neighbor!

 

If anyone’s got some BBQ pictures post them!

Here are some ribs and a brisket flat:




Did 2 pork butts and pork belly burnt ends:

 

Bonus pics:

I know this ain’t BBQ but I can also do pizzas on my Kamado Joe too:

 

I use a large round barrel type of BBQ smoker combination. We also do smoked ribs but the Mrs Isn't too fond of pork ribs, it's an Irish thing I presume.

 

You’re making me hungry here.

 

Damn that's some lovely looking BBQ. Can you send some. Are you using a dry rub on those ribs?

 

Was the pit home made? Is it an offset or is it a barrel cooker like a bullet?

 

Yeah I did those ribs with 3 different rubs. This is before the wrap through.

 

@Jack Straw, so when are you going to open your own restaurant?

I’ve taken the liberty of making you some marketing material, royalty free. It’s all yours, buddy.

 

Perfect! Need to get these printed for outside the shop! Lol

 

Best hurry up before I change my mind

 

Purchased it. It's like bullet but has a deep bottom to slow smoke.

 

Interesting! As long as it does the job it works!

 

Tested out the new Weber Smokey Mountain this weekend. These were the results. Did some ribs and 2 pork tenderloins. Came out good considering I was smoking in 17 degrees F.

 

Every time I click on this thread I’m always starving and get taunted with delicious looking food.

 

Some more BBQ for the Super Bowl. Smoked some pork butts. 11 am-> 12 am, 13 hours total.

 

There isn’t a salivating emoji.

 

I should work a bit more on my presentation
Did this yesterday - just some squash, broccoli, spinach leaves put a bit pf a gele and duck with a super simple balsamic vinegar and honey

 

Woah!! That looks delicious!

 

@OnceUponaTime i know you cook! Where is your pictures?!