Hello ladies and gents, just took the plunge after drooling over this machine for over a year. My rational is two-fold, I get to make some great food, and I have a better excuse to spend more time outside than just smoking cigars!
I am excited to draw on many of your experiences and knowledge, good times and bad.
Mike - NW Philly
Welcome, Mike. You'll find what you're looking for here. Your Odyssey is about to begin!
Welcome Mike! There no turning back! You Will become addicted!
Welcome aboard!!
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Thanks for the kind welcomes! I pick my shiny new four rack digital tomorrow. Time to get some bubba pucks and get to making my neighborhood envious.
Hello and welcome to a really great forum....have a granddaughter over at Widner University in her final year as a mechanical engineer...
Welcome fellow PA resident!!!! Buying my Bradley and becoming a member of this forum has been one of the best things I have ever done. There is a wealth of knowledge and experience on here and you will be thoroughly impressed with what you can find on here! Smoke away, we're turning another one......
John
welcome aboard and enjoy
Welcome to the Forum! Lot's of good folks and info here!
Thanks again everyone. Great to see local folks too! Looks like tomorrow evening will be seasoning time and Friday we'll try a beer can chicken. Smoker is here and the bubba pucks, mavirck 73, cover, and bisquettes are all tracking for tomorrow...can't wait!
Don't forget to post pics, we love pics here
Don
welcome, it is addicting! I baught my smoker mainly for more capacity for fall salmon smoking, this site and all the helpful advice and experience now has me getting into curing up bacon, making sausage, smoking nuts and foods I normaly would not have done.
Welcome to the forum...Enjoy!
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Remember we like pic's!!
Just getting done with seasoning right now, gonna leave it on for another hour with maple burning to add some flavor to some rubbed chops to finish on the grill. It's a beautiful day!
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I just picked the same Bradley this weekend, welcome.
And welcome to you sir!
Making a beautiful day of having lunch for the upcoming week
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Beautiful spring day, got a killer rare cigar, some reserve port, and just pulled some spicy chorizo off after two hours of maple at an IT of 175*
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Next is beer can chicken. Picked up a local free range organic bird, brined in water, salt, brown sugar, apple cider vinegar for three hours. Rubbed with evoo, Stubbs, and garlic powder. Going to smoke with apple for two hours with flying dog winter ale for two hours and finish on the weber genesis 330.
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Pics to follow...
Sounds like a perfect day in my book ;)
Where did you get that shiny beer can chicken holder?
Won't be shiny for too much longer :)
Kitchen kapers here across the street from me here in Wayne, PA
It has been the best day on the books so far his year
Now drinking while sitting my bds:
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Getting there, going to finish on the weber. TBE is still in the packaging.
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Nice choice of beer 542. Here are a few that I have on hand currently ;)
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Can't beat a good IPA! I have a couple 175ml bottles of the 120 and 75 that I'm saving for full load smokes. DFH HQ isn't far from here, let me know if you need any DFH brews sent your way.
I smoke meat along with wild HTF cigars of course. It's all about being productive while being OUTSIDE. Love it, the burbs are ok with the right amenities.
Pron of the BCC to follow...
So... I destroyed the "food" probe on my maverick 73 putting the chicken on the weber to finish. Reads HHH now. But the chicken was to die for, and I have a maverick 732 as a backup. Apparently I need a grilling probe to handle the 600* grill.
Money
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Look fantastic!
Don't give up on that probe just yet... Let it cool down, then put it in a 200° oven for a while to dry it out. Some liquid/drippings/grease might have made their way between the mesh and the metal probe. That is it's weak link.
Quote from: squirtthecat on April 14, 2012, 05:57:06 PM
Look fantastic!
Don't give up on that probe just yet... Let it cool down, then put it in a 200° oven for a while to dry it out. Some liquid/drippings/grease might have made their way between the mesh and the metal probe. That is it's weak link.
Will do, thanks brother
That chicken is looking good, looked like a great day
WOW your smoker is really clean! Mine looked like that one day.
Quote from: The542 on April 14, 2012, 03:52:32 PM
Can't beat a good IPA! I have a couple 175ml bottles of the 120 and 75 that I'm saving for full load smokes. DFH HQ isn't far from here, let me know if you need any DFH brews sent your way.
If you have it in your area, pick up Saranac's White IPA. It is a limited production spiced IPA, slightly on the sweet side but the spices and other flavorings quickly balance out the overall flavor.
Quote from: Consooger on April 23, 2012, 09:46:46 PM
WOW your smoker is really clean! Mine looked like that one day.
It won't look like that for to long, at least mine didn't
Don