HAHA. I like to tell my wife I'll be hanging out with Manuel Labor (missing the accent mark on the 'o') when I gotta do work around the house.
My smoker doesn't get much rest. In the past couple of weeks I've smoked wings, pastrami, two chickens, and ribs (baby back & st louis). I like to smoke using wood staves from bourbon barrels that I've bought over the years. I love the oak, and the bourbon adds a nice touch. Regarding the apple juice, I like to mix half apple juice and half apple cider vinegar in a spray bottle and spray my ribs every 30-45 minutes, starting about 2hrs in. I also do my ribs at a little higher heat than most, around 265. It gives them a little more bark, which I prefer. On deck for this week is a big Sockeye salmon filet that I plan on dry brining in salt/brown sugar overnight, and then hot smoking for a couple of hours until it turns into a kind of candied salmon. I also plan on smoking some tuna and then making tuna salad out of it. Smoked tuna salad is really fantastic!!! Love the foodie and drink threads. That seems to be all I follow on this forum anymore...
I agree Seldom...some of this sh** is next-level time consuming stuff. I'm impressed. I like slinging plenty of stuff in the kitchen tho, but nothing too too complicated...I can do homemade Thai Food (tom yum soup, curries, satay, etc), anything breakfast, Italian-American basics, homemade pizza, mexican basic gringo stuff (tacos, fajitas, guac, pico, enchiladas, pico), homemade hot sauce, and drinks...lots of drinks. I like mixing up cocktails and watching the drama unfold when people throw back too many...That's fun.
I actually thought about soaking some of the wood chips in whiskey and then using them. I bet your way has a lot better out come! Thanks soul!
Salt, my woman is half Thai. Her mom is teaching how to make some stuff. I can larb gai, moo satay, som tum, thai rice cakes (friggin delicious!)
Anybody ever try cold smoking? Want to rig up something this winter and give it a go. Thai food is awesome. I've got lemon grass, Thai basil, mint cilantro and hot peppers (amongst other herbs) growing in the back yard. Also have a lime, lemon and bay tree that produce. Hope to have oranges soon. It used to be hard to find certain ingredients for Thai food here but no problem now for most items. First time I tried to find tamarind pods I just got blank stares.lol. My kids don't know how well they got it.
I have some Thai peppers and Carolina reapers growing. We just went to NC this past weekend to see her parents and she hooked me up with a huge thing of dried thai peppers already crushed. I think I could eat Thai food everyday!
We used to have a restaurant in town with a world class pad thai...but then they sold out and the new owners are completely clueless also love good chinese stir-fry. I have several recipies I make myself, and do an impressive job, considering...but one of the things that makes great chinese is the oil. Good chinese restaurants season their food with oil that's already had a bunch of seafood, pork, etc fried in it. Very hard to replicate this flavor element at home...so a lot of us rely on sesame, peanut oils and other seasoning tricks to help come even close (it doesn't).
Why are all you "men" cooking?? Shouldn't your women folk be doing that for you?? Real men don't simmer, fry, baste, or bake.......
damn man im getting hungry just reading this lol.I just don't know the correct way to cook it,whether u let it boil in a pot for a few hours,then throw on the grill or in the oven,or just do it on the grill from the start.thats what I try to do,i cook for like an hour and a half,the ribs are good,not great,but its real tough and doesn't fall off the bone like its supposed to.
hour and a half isn't long enough...more like 3 hours or more. Never boil ribs. Introduce moisture to the grill somehow, like leaving a pot of hot water over the coals the duration of the cook. In the last 30 min of cooking, slather with BBQ sauce and caramelize that over the coals. BBQ ribs isn't rocket science and is actually very easy...just time consuming.
