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Outdoor Cooking Equipment => Grills & Smokers => Pellet Grills and Smokers => Topic started by: squirtthecat on September 01, 2012, 11:27:57 AM

Title: Having a smoke with Isaac, out on the Lido deck..
Post by: squirtthecat on September 01, 2012, 11:27:57 AM: Remnants of Isaac are moving across the Midwest this weekend, so we are getting some much needed rain. 5.6" reported in a little town just SE of us overnight..

I've got 56 pounds of ribs to smoke, so you gotta do what you gotta do.

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2nd in command is less than impressed. ;D

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Clear at the moment, so I dropped the redneck canopy down and got to work on 4 racks of bbacks. (party this afternoon)

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Bringing the flavor.

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Rubbed and cruising along at 245°.

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Our team magnets and related swag started showing up this week, so I blinged out my freezer.

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Time to start the Buffalo/Starnes Chicken dip. Stay tuned...
Title: Re: Having a smoke with Isaac, out on the Lido deck..
Post by: smokeasaurus on September 01, 2012, 11:34:33 AM: Love the logo!!! Shame to see a beauty of a pit out in the rain but what the heck...we be grillin and we be Que'in no matter the weather!!
Title: Re: Having a smoke with Isaac, out on the Lido deck..
Post by: TentHunteR on September 01, 2012, 01:43:16 PM: Squirt, You're a trooper, and so is that MAK!

Isaac is now heading our way. You can see it rolling in as I type this. I guess we need to get our easy up canopy out if I want to do any smoking this weekend.
Title: Re: Having a smoke with Isaac, out on the Lido deck..
Post by: Tenpoint5 on September 01, 2012, 02:05:44 PM: If figures we need all the rain we can get and it still swerves out and away from us. Some good looking eats there Squirt. The Bling looks PDG as well.
Title: Re: Having a smoke with Isaac, out on the Lido deck..
Post by: Old Hickory on September 01, 2012, 02:06:25 PM: You are a determined cook, no matter the weather. Good luck with the Isaac blowover. The redneck canopy looks a little vulnerable.
Title: Re: Having a smoke with Isaac, out on the Lido deck..
Post by: squirtthecat on September 01, 2012, 02:52:05 PM: Getting some color now. Time to start spritzing.

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Keeping the neighbor's Dachshund in line. :D

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Got the Buffalo/Starnes Smoked Chicken dip in the cooker now while the ribs cruise along.

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Raining like crazy now.
Title: Re: Having a smoke with Isaac, out on the Lido deck..
Post by: smokeasaurus on September 01, 2012, 03:50:40 PM: I bet all the poochs sleep with one eye open around Squirts place!! ;D
Title: Re: Having a smoke with Isaac, out on the Lido deck..
Post by: squirtthecat on September 01, 2012, 04:05:32 PM: Guests are arriving... More pics to come later.
Title: Re: Having a smoke with Isaac, out on the Lido deck..
Post by: squirtthecat on September 02, 2012, 12:23:27 PM: Ribs were a hit. They could have gone an hour longer (or 15° hotter), but the taste was there. Sent a rack home with each couple along with some Buffalo Chicken dip. (also a hit)

Another round of rain..

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Dip is ready. Transferred it to a crock pot inside.

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Ribs after the last spritz, right before I foiled them in pairs and parked in my Samsbro.

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Rested for an hour, and then sliced up the first rack. 2 bones immediately went missing. ;)

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Many hours later... Fired the MAK back up at 350° to burn off the rib residue and enjoyed a..

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Title: Re: Having a smoke with Isaac, out on the Lido deck..
Post by: squirtthecat on September 02, 2012, 12:23:48 PM: Day 2! This was waiting for me in the garage. A 42 pound ribcicle.

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After some prying with my clean screwdriver and a couple bottles of water, we got to work.

First layer in the MAK.

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Squirted and heavily dusted with..

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Top rack.

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Here comes the sun! (and the humidity)

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Traeger is high and dry, so I fired him up and loaded with the last 6 racks.

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I retreated to the air conditioning and left my sentry in charge.

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I'll check back in a few hours.
Title: Re: Having a smoke with Isaac, out on the Lido deck..
Post by: squirtthecat on September 02, 2012, 02:37:30 PM: Getting some color now. I'll probably go out and flip/rotate them all in those racks in an hour or so.

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Title: Re: Having a smoke with Isaac, out on the Lido deck..
Post by: muebe on September 02, 2012, 03:02:17 PM: Looking real good Squirt!
Title: Re: Having a smoke with Isaac, out on the Lido deck..
Post by: smokeasaurus on September 02, 2012, 03:27:08 PM: I always thought that if you used rib racks you didn't have to move em around.....?
Title: Re: Having a smoke with Isaac, out on the Lido deck..
Post by: squirtthecat on September 02, 2012, 03:29:35 PM: Quote from: smokeasaurus on September 02, 2012, 03:27:08 PM
I always thought that if you used rib racks you didn't have to move em around.....?

I've got some hot spots in both of those grills, so I wanted to flip them and rearrange a bit.
A couple were starting to stick, so that was a good time to yank them out and give them a good spritz.

I'll check them again around 3 and see if they need some foil time, or if I should go straight to the cambro..
Title: Re: Having a smoke with Isaac, out on the Lido deck..
Post by: squirtthecat on September 02, 2012, 04:25:40 PM: Most of the Traeger ribs are done, so off they come into the waiting Cambro..

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Spread some of the MAKRibs over to the Traeger so I can get those racks out of the way.

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And some rearranging..

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The ribs on the inside of the 'stacks' didn't get much color, so I'll let them go a while longer.
Title: Re: Having a smoke with Isaac, out on the Lido deck..
Post by: TwoPockets on September 02, 2012, 05:38:51 PM: I have an extra 9ft market umbrella and 20lb umbrella stand I use to when it is raining. I can move it to cover whichever cooker I might be using on the deck. Works good unless it is a driving/blowing rain, then I am not out there cooking anyway.
Title: Re: Having a smoke with Isaac, out on the Lido deck..
Post by: squirtthecat on September 02, 2012, 05:44:06 PM: FINALLY they are done.

Happy (and heavy) Cambro..

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Title: Re: Having a smoke with Isaac, out on the Lido deck..
Post by: Old Hickory on September 03, 2012, 02:52:10 PM: WOW, those look great. This cook is going to have me try that sriracha on at least one of my next racks.