First Time-Fire Up!

oklahomaotter · February 26, 2006, 11:48:26 AM

After what seems like months of research and the sale of my trailer mounted smoker,I am going total electric with my new Bradley this morning!Put a 10# brisket on about 6a.m. and cannot hardly wait!I feel like a kid waiting for Christmas morning.I'll post the results after while if I am not too full!![8D]

owrstrich · February 26, 2006, 12:02:12 PM

otter said trailer mounted smoker...

gotta be from texas... almost texas anyway... you wont win any my smokers bigger than your smoker contest with the bradley... but you will smoke up some dang fine beast with it...

low and slow there almost tex... low and slow...

keep us informed... you gotta eat...

owrstrich

SMOKEHOUSE ROB · February 26, 2006, 01:24:40 PM

oklahomaotter welcome to the forum [:)] you might be eating that brisket at 10 pm, keep us posted,

oklahomaotter · February 26, 2006, 01:47:41 PM

AAhhhh! It smells gooood!! Wanna look bad but haven't yet!

Oldman · February 26, 2006, 07:06:16 PM

oklahomaotter welcome to the forum~~!

Olds

oklahomaotter · February 26, 2006, 08:05:33 PM

Well,time for the verdict:Although I am no BBQ Virgin,I am when it comes to the Electric.I cooked this brisket with Rudy's Dry Rub(www.rudys.com) and cooked it at 210-225 for 6 hours and then wrapprd it loosely in foil and cooked for another two hours at the same temperature.The brisket does not have the same smoke ring I am used to,but IT TURNED OUT GREAT!!!I can see another 10 or 15 lbs added easily!The only regret I have is I waited too long to buy this cooker.I am very proud to own this smoker and also to be a member of this forum.There is ton of information available at your finger tips,IT IS SO COOL!!!

Arcs_n_Sparks · February 26, 2006, 09:36:20 PM

Oklahomaotter,

Welcome to the forum. Tons of great stuff here and advice...

Arcs_n_Sparks

Smokin Joe · March 30, 2006, 01:04:11 PM

It took me some getting used to as well Oklahomaotter...I was a traditional offset smoker user prior to getting my Bradley, so when I did my first few items and saw that the beautiful pink smoke ring was missing, I wondered if I was missing something or doing it wrong.

But as always, the flavors were dead on, and everything cooked to perfection. So after a little research I learned that the smoke ring is due to the chemistry of the charcoal as it burns, but it does nothing to enhance or change the flavor of the final product. As well, many contests tell their judges to not consider the smoke ring in the scoring...

Enjoy your smoker and welcome!

Joe Johnson
Founding Partner
Caroline's Rub - Dry Rubs, Smoked Salt, and Texas Chili Seasoning

Readers of this forum receive a 10% discount on any purchase from Caroline's. Just be sure to enter discount code CUIFORUM106 when you enter your shipping information at checkout.

iceman · March 30, 2006, 02:05:11 PM

Right on the money Joe. Judges are not using the smoke ring for points up here either. There are very few folks using the offset smokers anymore for the contests. The wood cost to much to ship up here to do it. I still have mine and like to use it for summer picnics though.<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by Smokin Joe
 It took me some getting used to as well Oklahomaotter...I was a traditional offset smoker user prior to getting my Bradley, so when I did my first few items and saw that the beautiful pink smoke ring was missing, I wondered if I was missing something or doing it wrong.

But as always, the flavors were dead on, and everything cooked to perfection. So after a little research I learned that the smoke ring is due to the chemistry of the charcoal as it burns, but it does nothing to enhance or change the flavor of the final product. As well, many contests tell their judges to not consider the smoke ring in the scoring...

Enjoy your smoker and welcome!

Joe Johnson
Founding Partner
Caroline's Rub - Dry Rubs, Smoked Salt, and Texas Chili Seasoning

Readers of this forum receive a 10% discount on any purchase from Caroline's. Just be sure to enter discount code CUIFORUM106 when you enter your shipping information at checkout.
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Oldman · March 30, 2006, 05:22:47 PM

Smokin Joe,
I see you are a member and I take it you own or manage Caroline's Rub. If a couple of members use your products and recieve excellent service and post that they did I will be glad to add you to our Approved Vendor's list on our recipe site. [^]

EDIT: Your site has pop-ups and both of my pop-up blockers kicked in. I'm sure the information from them is important to you to get out. However, pop-ups can be hacked and that is why more an more programs are blocking them. In my case the two are Win XP and Ad-Aware SE Plus.

Olds

Smokin Joe · March 30, 2006, 05:54:10 PM

Very much appreciated Oldman...I would love to see Caroline's on your vendors page. Much like Chez Bubba, it is more important to us to have a long term customer than a quick one time sale, so we work really hard to see that our customers are happy and satisfied.

I hope my signature hasn't offended or been seen as an attempt to spam or draw attention away from the purpose of this board or my actual intent for being here, which is to share some great information, a few laughs, and learn a lot from the fine folks in this forum.

Thanks again, and I'll tell you what...drop me an email with the names of 3 members you think would be good judges of the product (and who wouldn't mind participating), along with their mailing information and I will see that they get some samples for testing.

BTW, the pop up is simply a box offering signup for our newsletter. It is not external to another site or for sales...

Joe Johnson
Founding Partner
Caroline's Rub - Dry Rubs, Smoked Salt, and Texas Chili Seasoning

Readers of this forum receive a 10% discount on any purchase from Caroline's. Just be sure to enter discount code CUIFORUM106 when you enter your shipping information at checkout.

Chez Bubba · March 30, 2006, 11:06:15 PM

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by Smokin Joe
 I hope my signature hasn't offended or been seen as an attempt to spam or draw attention away from the purpose of this board or my actual intent for being here, which is to share some great information, a few laughs, and learn a lot from the fine folks in this forum.<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote">
Joe,

With an attitude like that, you'd have to have a porn link in your sig for me to object![8D] That pretty much surmises the reason 99% of us are here.

Glad you're better & back,

Kirk

http://www.chezbubba.com
Ya think next time I check into a hotel & they ask "Smoking or Non?" they would mind?

IKnowWood · March 31, 2006, 12:00:04 AM

smokingJoe, Also on the Mac Platform, with Safari Browser, the built in pop-up blocker easily ignored them for me. I never knew they existed till olds mentioned something about them.

WELCOME oklahomaotter

Oldman · March 31, 2006, 12:10:46 AM

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">I hope my signature hasn't offended or been seen as an attempt to spam or draw attention away from the purpose of this board or my actual intent for being here<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote">Nope not in my option. Nice looking and you have "tag" knowledge to make it work as a link. Many folks don't understand how to nestle tags. Nice job....

Olds

jaeger · March 31, 2006, 02:33:29 AM

Smokin Joe,
Welcome to the forum!
The first thing I noticed on your site was the smoked salt.
If you send out samples to anybody I would like to suggest that you include a sample of the smoked salt. That was a hot topic here for awhile. A lot of members were trying to perfect it.

http://www.carolinesrub.com/smoked_salt.asp

Doug