The Official What's Cooking Thread [Food Porn]

[chalmers]

Looks tasty!

[NASH]

Looks tasty!

That it does!

[jeffsmith]

Looks tasty!

That it does!

Looks awesome Shane!

[NASH]

StupidStore had a few mislabelled birds. They were supposed to be $1.99/lb or $4.18/kg. So I grabbed me one.....

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Filled a pan with veggies.....

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Plowed some grape vines into the kamado.....

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Poured a litre of beer over the veggies, rubbed the bird down with Cajun spice and placed it above the roaster, then hit the go button....

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Results to follow

[Jimmy]

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Got the turkey on the grill. Just rubbed it with some butter, sage, and thyme..filled the cavity with apple & onion.

Drip pan is filled with pumpkin ale, onion, and poultry seasoning.

[NASH]

Looks great Jimmy! How'd it turn out?

The grape vine smoked bird was awesome as were the smoked beer veggies and ensuing onslaught of gravy. Not the purdiest plate but it was epic

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[canuck]

Smoked bacon. One smoked with Applewood and the other smoked with Hickory. The one smoked with Applewood was in a maple cure.........freakin' delicious!

[mr x]

Maple syrup or sugar?

Sent from my Nexus S

[dexter]

Did you say bacon? This too is maple bacon soon to be smoked over apple and maple


Not to hijack the other bacon but I find using maple sugar just doesn't give as much maple flavor

[canuck]

Maple syrup or sugar?

Sent from my Nexus S

Syrup. I cured it with this.

2 ounces Kosher salt
2 teaspoons pink curing salt
1/4 cup packed brown sugar
1/4 cup real maple syrup

[Tony L]

Lean looking bacon, Shane.

[jacinthebox]

A few pics from my summer of meat

Bacon Bomb
12 hour smoked pork shoulder (sweet heat homemade rub)
Whole roasted pig
Deep fried Turkey (injected and rubbed)

missing pics - smoked wings, smoked deer sausage, smoked pork sausage, smoked whole chickens

[erslar00]

Great Pics Jacinthebox... couple questions about the pig... It doesn't look like you used a spit is that correct? I have held off on doing a pig in that exact fashion as i was afraid of burning it. If you have a second can you explain how you did it... just lots of flipping? Was flame ups a big issue. Is that a cover in the back ground? Was it covered most of the time? Very cool.

[LeafMan66_67]

Nice!

Always wanted to do the whole pig ...

[jacinthebox]

Great Pics Jacinthebox... couple questions about the pig... It doesn't look like you used a spit is that correct? I have held off on doing a pig in that exact fashion as i was afraid of burning it. If you have a second can you explain how you did it... just lots of flipping? Was flame ups a big issue. Is that a cover in the back ground? Was it covered most of the time? Very cool.

We butterflied the pig...cooks faster, and I don't have a spit

we use 3 rows of blocks, add a rack, add another row of blocks...start 3 very small fires and add wet maple wood for smoke...The cover is 1/4" steel plate, and we kept it on the whole time (just slide it out of the way to spray the pig.

We only flip once...we start it belly side down, and flip it about 2 hours in...it smokes for about 5-6 hours.
Target temp was 250

the fire box holds a lot of heat, so you don't need a big fire...we spray the pig every 30 min with a mix of apple juice/apple cider vinegar.

[jacinthebox]

My Brew buddy J and I (i'm spraying) the pig

[canuck]

Jacinthebox, awesome looking food!!!!!

I did a whole pig last year, but rented a commercial smoker for it though. IMHO, the cheeks are the tastiest part!

[jacinthebox]

The pit getting up to temp.

We left a space in the block to add wood/Lump coal...or to spray water to cool it down...Pig Fat is like gas lol

[jacinthebox]

Jacinthebox, awesome looking food!!!!!

I did a whole pig last year, but rented a commercial smoker for it though. IMHO, the cheeks are the tastiest part!

I agree...they are

We put on a Community Party every summer...we provide the meat...others bring non meat related stuff lol. We also did 2 turkeys for this event.
Around 75-80 people showed up...
We started the pig around 10am...started the beer around 11am

[jacinthebox]

Dressing and pre-smoking the hog

sorry to the folks from PETA..

[canuck]

^ LMFAO!

[jacinthebox]

Pulled pork shoulder...that's all bark, no burn...homemade memphis dust

[Jimmy]

A few pics from my summer of meat

Bacon Bomb
12 hour smoked pork shoulder (sweet heat homemade rub)
Whole roasted pig
Deep fried Turkey (injected and rubbed)

missing pics - smoked wings, smoked deer sausage, smoked pork sausage, smoked whole chickens

Food looks great! On one of the episodes of BBQ Pitmasters they did a pig on the cinder block pit like that.. looks like fun

[canuck]

Homemade bread using spent beer grains from an Oktoberfest that I brewed today.

[Graham.C]

Looks tasty, how was it?