Let's Talk BBQ
Outdoor Cooking Equipment => Grills & Smokers => Pellet Grills and Smokers => Topic started by: muebe on May 12, 2012, 04:36:12 PM
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Started with some chicken legs and bacon :)
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Skin removed and then coated with Jan's Rub...
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Bacon skin applied...
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Then hit with some Secret Weapon rub...
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Pre heated the Memphis to 275F...
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Then into the Memphis on frog mats until a IT of 150F on the largest leg...
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Once the legs reached 150F IT the temp was bumped up to 400F to finish the bacon for 10 minutes then pulled...
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Boy was I impressed by the steady flow of smoke with my new grill. You could hear the fan ramp up and down to create smoke in smoke mode. A constant light stream of blue smoke coming out the vent holes. And it kept a stable temp within a few degrees while doing so :o
Chicken was fantastic. And for those of you who have not tried the skin replacement procedure you should...it is well worth it ;)
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Those look even better than the ones you did a couple of weeks ago!! 8)
Sounds like the Memphis is chooglin out enough smoke...........good thing ya didn't start drilling ;D
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Look great muebe! Tell us about the smoke flavor on the chicken...More than the Treager, I am assuming?
And...should we find a name for these wonderful looking legs of chicken meat w/porcine flesh covering??? ;D How about "Porken" or "Yard Pork" or "Piggin Legs"........? ;D
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I like "Porken Legs" ;)
There was more smoke flavor than I had with the Traeger. I just did not get the smoke output with it that I am with the Memphis. Now to be fair I did have a PID running tight temps on the Traeger so smoke was at a minimum.
The difference here is that the Memphis in smoke mode (180F to 295F) will drop pellets and then the fan will speed up to super high speed for about 10 seconds then turn down real slow creating smoke. It repeats this each time it drops more pellets. And it is able to keep the temps within 5 degrees while doing this.
I used maple bacon with this cook and I can tell you that the maple bacon took on a nice smoke flavor. The smoked bacon actually was too smokey in taste being it is already smoked. The chicken really had a good smoke flavor. I see no need for a smoke daddy with this grill. I was using maple and apple pellets. Not really the strongest smoke flavor woods.
Now keep in mind that they smoked for about 2 1/2 hours so that was almost the entire time. So that is a good application of smoke. I never saw the smoker billowing smoke. It just had a light, constant, thin blue smoke coming fron the vents built into the hood. It never appeared to lose flame.
I am super happy with the way this thing cooks.
Tee doesn't your Yoder do something similar when at lower temps to create smoke?
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It is always nice when a big investment turns out as good or better than you had planned..way to go Muebe!!!!
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TILT!!!
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I saw the thread title, "Bacon Skin Chicken Legs" and came running, because I knew it had to be good.
WOW!!! Those look incredible Muebe!
This just went to the top of my list.
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The Memphis sounds great! I don't know if the Yoder does anything at low tmeps like that or not. I know I am due for a software up-date, maybe that is one of the thing it does?
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Tee if your Yoder controller has programmable software updates then I am sure it has that function or can be programmed to do it. On my Memphis you can hear the fan ramp up and back down in smoke mode. It is very audible and noticeable. Anything over 300F and the fan does not appear to change speed and stays constant.
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It looks yummy love your legs ;) .
looks like you have great fan with the memhpis smoker.
thas it works only with pellets or can you put in wood ?
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It looks yummy love your legs ;) .
looks like you have great fan with the memhpis smoker.
thas it works only with pellets or can you put in wood ?
Ahron it runs strictly on cooking pellets.
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Muebe does it again..Pam .☆´¯`•.¸¸. ི♥ྀ.
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i like it. cool idea. great chicken partner. :)
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OOO EEEEE! yard birds with a different skin. And a better one at that. NICE!!