Media thread - 25 November 2020, 11:31

A photo of a Weber "Smokey Mountain" smoker in its box, along with a bag of barbecue briquettes, pecan wood chunks, and a charcoal chimney.

Yesssss. And even better, Weber were having a Black Friday sale tomorrow which the guy said he'd honour today where you get 10% of the price of the barbecue's worth of accessories, so I got the briquettes, wood chunks, and charcoal chimney for essentially $5! 🎉

Posted on 25 November 2020, 11:31

Hell yeah, the last bit of our smoker setup arrived today!

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Posted on 30 November 2020, 20:58

A photo of a Weber "Smokey Mountain" barbecue smoker.

YISSSSS. (It's never ever going to be this clean again). We're going to christen it on Sunday with a pork shoulder, can't wait!

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Posted on 25 December 2020, 19:16

A photo of unlit charcoal briquettes in the bottom of a Smokey Mountain smoker.

A photo of some unlit charcoal briquettes in a charcoal chimney.

A photo of the base of the charcoal chimney with lit firelighters under it.

A photo of the now-lit charcoals in the base of the smoker with the rest of the unlit charcoals.

IT BEGINS.

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Posted on 27 December 2020, 10:22

A photo of a pork shoulder sitting on the top grill of a Weber Smokey Mountain smoker.

And the meat is on! Now there's nothing to do for the next three or so hours until I start spritzing it with apple cider vinegar.

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Posted on 27 December 2020, 11:01

A screenshot from the ThermoWorks app, showing a graph with the ambient smoker temperature solidly at 135° for the past almost hour.

Man, this thermometer and fan setup I bought is worth its weight in gold. Check out that consistency of temperature! (Green line is ambient smoker temperature, red is the meat).

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Posted on 27 December 2020, 11:48

A photo of a pork shoulder in netting sitting on the grill of a smoker. The fat on top is starting to split and it's looking delicious.

We're at the three hour mark, first spritzing is done, and the meat is at 62°.

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Posted on 27 December 2020, 14:00

A photo of a cooked pork shoulder still in its netting. The fat layer is on top and it's all dark brown and delicious-looking.

A photo of the finished smoked pulled pork. Did I mention it was epic? Because it was epic.

Well, the timing for a normal-time dinner might have been off, but that's something easily taken into account for next time. I took the meat off the smoker when the internal temperature was at 96˚C, left it in the foil for 45 minutes, and HOLY FUCK IT WAS EPIC. Didn't need ANY sort of sauce, it was amazingly delicious and completely moist and tender!

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Posted on 27 December 2020, 18:58

A photo of two round golden brown loaves of bread sitting on a cooling rack.

A photo of two slices of the aforementioned bread sitting on a plate, one of the pieces has a ton of pulled pork on it and dollops of barbecue sauce on top.

And to round off the weekend of amazing home-cooked food, I made bread and had the leftover pulled pork from last night as a sandwich and it was gooooood.

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Posted on 28 December 2020, 12:33