breaking in the new smoker

[ughhibye 10+ year member]

Well finally replaced my 30 year old gas grill ive been using as a charcoal grill.

picked up a char-broil silver smoker for 150 from wally world and a 21 pound beef brisket.

First things first lets clean this nasty *** kitchen (this is just from me being away 2 weeks my uncle is a slob)

Before:

After:

Next step the MEAT!!!!!:

Next is some dry rub.(blackening seasoning and alil magic BBQ seasoning most of all the Cajun rub.

Now we need to get a nice coal bed started (only picture i took) but i use nothing but 80/20 mix of hickory chunks and mesquite chips for the first 3 hours of smoking. after three hours of that its a 90/10 mix of charcoal and hickory chips.

WEE BEE SMOKIN!!

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[ughhibye 10+ year member]

Got bored and got some pics of the project:

Up:

Down:

layin rocker

Time to through the meat on the grid:

now were cookin 225 degrees for 20 hours. lid doesn't get opened except every 3 hours to give a good coating of mop

heres the view i got to enjoy for the next 20 hours:

at the halfway mark i snapped a pic for yall:

FINISHED:

 

[ughhibye 10+ year member]

cut and ready to feed me for the next few dayssmall pork loin is also in the pic.

For the most part im pleased. brisket came out perfect (moist tender great flavor). the smoker needs some work which i will start a thread on that tommorow. but s you can see there are alot of leaks which i need to seal. i want to modify the fire box a bit for the minion method for fuel. and i need to add some diffuser plates in the bottom of the grill to spread the heat out. also need to lower the stack to the grid level to better control heat.

 

[ughhibye 10+ year member]

screw 10 images per post

 

[ughhibye 10+ year member]

trashed the pork loin didnt care for the apple burban seasoning

 

[JBGabriel 10+ year member]

Looks good bro

 

[abrhino 10+ year member]

looks tasty... good work

makin me look forward to the weekend, Grandad is smokin a shoulder thurs night.. should be done early saturday

 

[JuicyJeff 10+ year member]

send me some of that meat

 

[ughhibye 10+ year member]

send me some of that meat

i technically could throw it on dry ice and send it your way. i have another brisket here