Well I want to make a batch sometime in the near future and if I’m down your way I’ll bring you some on the house.. AKA swellinfo moderators will pay lol.
LOL how kind of SI! But for real if you do make it down here I'll pay for the jack and cook you some mean Carolina style BBQ.
My fiancée was looking for work near you so maybe we’ll be neighbors sometime soon. I normally don’t make it all the way down your way. I do go to Hatteras on occasion. You do vinegar based or ketchup based BBQ?
Cool! SENC is a great place to live and your money goes a lot further down here (I moved from Maryland 10 years ago). I know the area pretty well if you have any questions. Vinegar based. It took a while to get me off the Sweet Baby Ray's but once I found a good recipe for apple cider vinegar based sauce I never looked back. I have done a few BBQ competitions and won a couple trophys/checks for my 'cue. ...wow, talking competition BBQ in a moonshine thread, how country is that? lol
I actually have mastered 2 recipes with my smoker, 1 is my pork shoulder and the other is smoked salmon. I literally have a couple people that would pay me for my pork. I tried a couple different recipes, injections, etc., but the one I currently use has been the best. 1 thing I haven' tried is a rack of ribs.
Oh man I'm getting hungry. For ribs I like to use some kind of fruity jelly and spice it way up with habanero or chocolate habanero if I happen to have some. I get a little crazy with ribs b/c of the shorter cook time, don't have to worry as much about your sugars burning.
My pops and his ghetto still in the foothills between Temecula and Anza. We had to sell the property, it was going to kill him. We would make that hooch in freaking July!! His mash was made from grapes we grew on the property, he would do between 80 proof and 130 (80 for the ladies, 130 for the crazies). He'd even color it by adding a coffee bean or two. Good stuff, and I would say I'd miss it but he's sitting on about 40 gallons he put away(for my kids wedding he says). It wasn't a pretty still but it did the job.
Nice man good luck. Just make sure to remove the silverskin (really easy, tons of vids of youtube), and look for a recipe that involves wrapping them in foil.
Bought a rack this morning and I've already been checking out the tube and other sites for recipes/techniques. Looks like most people do the 3 step process - smoke, wrap for a bit and then back in with just some heat. Question, I like using the yellow mustard rub prior to dry rub, I feel I get a better bark. Do you use mustard or just straight dry rub?
Yup, smoke then foil then just a couple minutes of direct heat at the end. Mustard is a great "vehicle" to hold the rub on the meat. If i'm going that route I use some coarse ground fancy stuff but that's just my preference. You can't go wrong with mustard and pork.