Let's Talk BBQ
Outdoor Cooking Equipment => Grills & Smokers => Pellet Grills and Smokers => Topic started by: squirtthecat on September 01, 2012, 11:27:57 AM
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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...
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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!!
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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.
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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.
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You are a determined cook, no matter the weather. Good luck with the Isaac blowover. The redneck canopy looks a little vulnerable.
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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.
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I bet all the poochs sleep with one eye open around Squirts place!! ;D
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Guests are arriving... More pics to come later.
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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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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.
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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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Looking real good Squirt!
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I always thought that if you used rib racks you didn't have to move em around.....?
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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..
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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.
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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.
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FINALLY they are done.
Happy (and heavy) Cambro..
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WOW, those look great. This cook is going to have me try that sriracha on at least one of my next racks.