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Got a couple of hanger steaksand gave them some pecanon they go for a reverse sear ready for a restlook how clean Ora isdee made up a salad as usual lolon for the searrested an carved and plated Sent from my SM-P600 using Tapatalk

Apparently I did not take many pictures for this cook. I did this cook a couple of weeks ago. I have gotten kind of bad at posting but I am still cooking all the time. Anyway I had a hankering for brisket. I saw this "bludawgs" method of cooking somewhere on the kamado guru forum and it promised juicy results in a much faster period of time. I looked into it, and saw it was not developed for kamado cooking so it probably wouldn't give me the results I was looking for. I decided to take some of the technique and just see how it went. No injections and I just used salt and pepper for my rub(I think this will be my go to). Set the vents for 230. Used pecan wood in my smoke pot. Fat cap down for 2 hoursflipped and fat cap up for about 2 and a half hours. Then wrapped and returned for just under 3 hrs I think. I couldn't believe it was at 203 and probing tender that fast. I really didn't think it would work. Rested for about an hour and a half pictures don't do it justice. It was supremely juicy and tender. This method actually works very well. I thought someone might be interested to try it out.

It was Redhead Sue's birthday yesterday and she invited some friends over for dinner. She loves beef ribs, so we threw some nice looking ones on the KK. Added a nice rib eye roast we found in the freezer. Smoked everything with some cherry wood. The beef ribs came off first and went into the oven to to hold until the roast came off at 125*F internal. Because it was her birthday, I was in charge of all the sides...........my finish timing for everything was not the best and I was scrambling ..........................so no plated pictures. Ordered a nice hand made ice cream cake from a local company for desert. A nice meal and a good time was had by all!!!!! Quick aside............our local Lowe's Hardware put this lump on sale. I snatched up a couple boxes and tried it. Have to say I'm very impressed. Uniform 3" pieces and it lights & burns nicely. Going to go back and get couple more boxes.

LOL nice tree Christmas down here is barbie time . Be warned what you are about to see may trumatize you lol but this is what I grew up on. Sent from my SM-P600 using Tapatalk

Nice tree, Aussie and Dee.... I love Christmas. Can't wait for yall to open yalls gift.. This is our tree.. The angel is getting a little tipsy on our devils lemonade I think.. Every time I straighten her up. I get up the next morning she hung over again.

Did a small pork picnic on the rotisserie, sorry no pics for this cook. Love our Thermoworks probes, they are the best. (Hint, Christmas?) Roast was small, could have easily been done it on my old RJ K3, but just wanted to play with the rotisserie. Issues with rotisserie, but Dennis came to the rescue, just several hours after a question. After having questions/issues with vendors with other ceramic cookers over the years, Dennis is the most refreshing person I have ever dealt with! Even though we are newbies with our 22" high top, but not to ceramic cooking, we are enthralled with our new KK. We have asked Dennis to build a matching baby KK (16.5" high top to match my bigger girl) and it should be here in the next several weeks. Can't wait! Just need to sell my old RJ K3 now. McKenzie, we will have twinies! OBTW, the rescused pork picnic was out of this world! Bark like no ever.

Dee put up the fantastic plastic the other day with our first present. Don't mind the background I leave things everywhere lol Sent from my SM-P600 using Tapatalk

dee got me these. As part of my birthday present the pen is very sturdy and constructed well I've gotten away with feel for along time but this will come in handy it's a new toy of course I have to use it lol the maple rub sounds tasty Sent from my SM-P600 using Tapatalk

I had a similar experience, though not that great of a discount, buying a 3D printer last week. I looked at a few models from a few different sites and would put them in the shopping cart to calculate shipping. The next day, I had a bunch of $ off coupons in my email box. Most were only $10 or so, but it's better than nothing.

I had to look back on posts I had missed out on when I was on my hiatus to see what this was about. Hope your finger is healing up well.

Okay I talked Mrs skreef into letting me play with one of the softboxes before Christmas. Here it is. The back with 2 switches. The cloth diffuser in place. Inside the softbox. Four 40 watt special photography 5500k daylight bulbs. Those are really big bulbs compared to what you buy for your house. My attempt at showing how much light it puts out. A quick test shot. Last picture using the apples. My family wants to eat my props - LOL Very happy with the purchase. After Christmas when I get the other 2 softboxes I'll post a full review showing everything that came with the setup. A shipping story - this 3 softbox set was $150. I put it in my cart and proceeded to checkout. When it got to the final screen it was $43 in shipping. Crap I knew it was a big box and going to cost a bit in shipping but not almost 50 dollars. I didn't do anything, I just left it as is since I needed to think about this and let the shipping sink in. About 3 hours later I got an email from the company - We see you didn't finish checking out. Here use this coupon code for free shipping. Yea I applied the coupon for free shipping and completed the order. If they would have offered that in the first place I wouldn't have hesitated. Will have to try this stall tactic more often and see what it gets me.

It will be great for things like chicken, you can cook to the edge of healthy perfections and the guessing is eliminated. My prediction is that the more you use it the more you will love it.

Happy Birthday, Aussie and that thermometer is going to be so handy both outside at the grill and inside the kitchen. I've had the older model for longer than I can remember.:)

That was fantastic, Aussie.

Just look at that moisture, what goodness.

So there is a positive side to cabin fever lol Sent from my SM-P600 using Tapatalk

We don't serve the likes of you lol Sent from my SM-P600 using Tapatalk

Maybe your youth made you stronger...

It was foil. I will be picking up the pink paper before my next brisket. I had always heard of the Texas crutch... I don't know why I assumed it would lead to an inferior product. If it's good enough for franklin it is good enough for me.

If you get another 50 it'll be a long and lonely 50. Looking back at my youth if I get another 30 I'll be lucky.

Haha, yeah that was one of my best crackles. Im going to do another one for Christmas and boxing day, so ill post up the cook then. Gotta go find a nice big roll for Christmas. Did a mad pork belly the other night too. Ill have to post up some pics. Mad crackle and think i have nailed the cooks on them now. Just patience is needed to get the crackle up and going. You dont wanna ruin the meat just to get nice crackle. give it a crack, would love to see the results. Love my crackle too

Perhaps. He claimed that they said to say something if the reading went over a certain number. What he saw was a reading that got stuck at that number.

Your meal looks divine.. I too love the M&M's... Especially the commercials.. Lol. My kids are my M&M's... Mark & Macy

Looks good Aussie.. But what's in this dominator? Ckreef loves ginger .. Me, can't do it... Lol.

Hi @wilburpan.. Glad all things are good for you. That look like a fantastic cook. I love karaoke too. I'm getting one for Christmas.. I figure I got some time on my hands for another month or so. Coarse I might sound like a screaming goat.. But I figured singing heals the soul and maybe it will heal my finger too.

We have a famous saying in the homebrewing world - "Relax, Have a Homebrew!" - meaning, it's not rocket science, so don't over stress on the minor details. Same applies to most BBQ cooks.

Love the expression on that bartender kid's face!!

I always say the pork roast cook is the highest purpose of a KK. When I do picnics, I just leave the skin on and take it off after the cook, it's MUCH easier. Honestly I don't prefer the Boston to the picnic or vice versa. I just grab one that's the right size. One thing I harp on about the KK is the non critical nature of temp control, especially with a pork shoulder. Your 180º to 275º cook demonstrates that. I laugh when I remember my very first cook. It was a Boston butt, done in the driveway after the guy dropped off the KK. It was mid afternoon and I knew my wife was going to be pissed as hell I spent the money. I had been planning this for weeks, get the KK, take the afternoon off, smoke a pork shoulder and feed it to Penny the day of delivery, just to shove that wonderful smoky goodness down her throat before she could rage at me. Well, it wasn't done when she pulled in the driveway and had to park in the grass because this giant Bronze Behemoth was sitting on a wooden crate smoking away in the middle of the drive. After giving me a tongue lashing, she grudgingly admitted it was pretty good after I finished and served the pulled pork. But all day I was staring at my Maverick having a shit fit if the temp crept up to 230º or 240º from what I assumed HAD to be a constant 225º every second of the cook! I was diddling those vents like an idiot. Only with experience did I discover that temp control is not very important at all, at least for a lot of things, Maybe some few cooks demand it, but not many.

Madison Ave advertising people are drooling over this ad! Brainwashing works...

Only in Australia.:)

Chicken is dodgy lol putting it on the extender rack gives it a nice even cook. I was looking at your pork loin cook today with that awesome crackle seriously need to try it love my crackle Sent from my SM-P600 using Tapatalk

Hey Wilbur I hope all is well. I'm sure the meat was the hit of the party...looks great.

I don't typically clean my grill grates except to scrape off big crud with my grill floss. But just to try something new I have my main grill in a water heater pan, bagged and sealed with ammonia. I'll break it out tomorrow and report.

Good to see you posting again @wilburpan. That looks like a good welcome back cook I'm going to have to try the Aaron Franklin rub you talked about. Any chance of a link?

Hi, again, Wilbur. Nice to see you cooking and posting. We missed you!

Take it as a compliment that they saved the leftovers for themselves. . Nice looking cook. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Hard to argue with the results. It looks fantastic

Tasty cook and I imagine your friends were thrilled with the flavour. It must have felt great to have some time to take pixs and do a post. I know I appreciated it.:)

Baked a couple of loaves of sourdough this afternoon. Kooker is at temp. I folded sun dried tomatoes into one loaf and added sliced fresh jalapeno in the other. They were both very tasty.