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12-14-2018, 09:43 PM #1
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My New Smoker Has Arrived!!
For many, many years I have wanted to do real BBQ, but never got around to it. I puddered with Walmart grills and smokers here and there, but never found the energy and time to do the real thing. I approached the boss (wife) a couple weeks ago and told her I wanted a real smoker, one I could drink beer and tend to all day while I cooked dinner. I told her I would not only cook the dinner, but I would clean up afterwards. I cook, I clean was the mantra. She agreed!!!!
Today, I took delivery of a Horizon 20" Classic Smoker weighing in at 400+ pounds. The unit is 100% American made, 1/4" American steel construction manufactured in Oklahoma. She is a tank, a serious piece of equipment.
This is my new hobby, drinking beer and whiskey while cooking spectacular food filled with fat and flavor!!!! Nobody can top my new hobby.
DAN
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12-15-2018, 12:43 AM #2
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Congrats, Dan! That’s a beast. Do you have an injector? Very helpful to inject herb infused liquid into the meat to keep it moist for the long, slow cook.
NBruce and Nancy
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12-15-2018, 05:55 AM #3
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Looks nice! I believe Horizon took the place of Oklahoma Joe's when they quit making smokers. You will love smoking on it. Very easy to control the temperature with the 1/4 steel. I've had mine for 18 years and still cooks great. Enjoy!!
ChrisChris & Kelly-- Tulsa
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12-15-2018, 06:02 AM #4
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Very nice. I have a similar one. Brisket and pulled pork are my favorite smokes using pecan wood when I have it. Doing a pork shoulder tomorrow. Currently sitting in marinade.
Bill and Kim
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12-15-2018, 08:10 AM #5
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12-15-2018, 08:20 AM #6
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Another gadget I got with my smoker was a Weber IGrill2, man what a great gadget. It is a temperature monitor that can accept up to four probes, I have two meat probes and two ambient probes. It is Bluetooth enabled, so all the temperatures display on your phone. You can set ranges and targets for each probe and the app will alert you when the temperatures fall out of range. It has graphs that show the trends over time. I played with it last night while seasoning my smoker and it was simply awesome, I could see exactly what was going on. I learned a lot about fire management just by watching the trends, first lesson learned was do not put a lot of wood on the fire!! Highly recommended, it is really well built and easy to use. At $66 for the base unit, it makes for a great Christmas gift.
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12-15-2018, 10:28 AM #7
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It’s a popular stainless steel one with two injector needles (one with holes in the shaft, one with just the end opening). Looked at it this morning, but name isn’t on it. I’ll investigate further and get back to you. On those Weber probes-take care to use them on leaner meats. We had an unseen flare-up burn up two of our probes.
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It was dark this morning. Name’s etched right on the darn thing: Grill Beast. Very heavy stainless, and came with extra o-rings. I wash it well, leave it out to dry, then put it away DIS-assembled. When I want to use it, I spray the rings with PAM, otherwise, it’s a bear to get moving.Bruce and Nancy
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12-15-2018, 10:36 AM #8
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12-15-2018, 11:18 AM #9
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Congratulations on the smoker! Looks good and Sounds heavy duty.
I won a small Traeger smoker at the NorCal rally, so that my RV smoker.
My real smoker is a Cookshack FEC100.
You probably already know this stuff, but thought I would through it out there, because I remember when I started....
This is my favorite smoking tool, accurate and fast, it gets used almost daily for all kinds of stuff:https://www.thermoworks.com/Thermapen-Mk4 Used on the pro smoking circuit allot.
I ordered one of these for the RV for Christmas: https://www.thermoworks.com/Smoke Hmmm, they were on sale
If you want my rub recipe for what I use on pork I would be glad to pass it on.
Amazing Ribs is great site learning recipes and is my goto. You should try a Spatchcock Turkey (or Chicken), injected with unsalted butter, with Simon and Garfunkel spices (parsley, sage rosemary and thyme) between the meat and skin. 16 lb. bird in a 1.5 hours and very moist. Cooks pretty evenly. Everything you wanted to know about cooking a turkey but were afraid to ask: https://amazingribs.com/tested-recip...dapted-cooking
Now I'm getting hungry... Have Fun.... PM me if you have any questions, I may be able to help. Note that I use pellet smokers so if its about managing your fire, can't help.
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12-15-2018, 11:25 AM #10
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Dang it! You guys are almost forcing me to take up a new hobby.
Just another way this forum is costing me money.
Dan, that looks like a smoking BEAST!
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