Official 2022 BBQ, Smoking, Grilling, Baking and Beer thread

[thomasandanita]

Found this delicious beer while visiting key west west.

 

[jark87]

If you’re a fan of a blood orange or red beer, give these Texas beers a try, if you haven’t already - Shannon Irish Red and Revolver Blood and Honey. Cheers!

 

[Brentr]

Fell in love today……family always enjoys pork cutlets but they’re a pain to make. Often they take forever to cook enough as we can only fry two at a time and there’s always grease everywhere when we’re done. The weather was nice out today and thought I’d give things a shot. Not sure we’ll make cutlets inside ever again! So much easier this way.
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Funny we had pork chops last nite but I really like them original shake and bake in the oven, but I will have to try them this way

 

[Brentr]

Monster omlette happy Sunday go Jags

 

[jark87]

Grilled up some Oklahoma onion burgers yesterday. Sliced the onions paper thin on the mandolin slicer and then salted them to draw out the water. Let them sit in a strainer over a bowl for a couple of hours and then squeezed out even more water. Getting my them as dry as possible helps to grill them instead of steaming them. Rolled up 3oz balls of ground beef and got the cast iron griddles up to 600° on the gasser. Put the balls of beef on the griddle, topped them with a healthy helping of onions, smashed them flat and seasoned them with salt, pepper and garlic. Cook for a minute or 2 on each side. Top 1 patty with cheese and serve as double patty burgers. Delicious!

 

[koffey]

Made a smoked corn beef brisket yesterday.

Terrible at taking pics before, during and sometimes after.

 

[Brentr]

Grilled up some Oklahoma onion burgers yesterday. Sliced the onions paper thin on the mandolin slicer and then salted them to draw out the water. Let them sit in a strainer over a bowl for a couple of hours and then squeezed out even more water. Getting my them as dry as possible helps to grill them instead of steaming them. Rolled up 3oz balls of ground beef and got the cast iron griddles up to 600° on the gasser. Put the balls of beef on the griddle, topped them with a healthy helping of onions, smashed them flat and seasoned them with salt, pepper and garlic. Cook for a minute or 2 on each side. Top 1 patty with cheese and serve as double patty burgers. Delicious!

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Well done, smash burgers are great and fun to make

 

[Brentr]

Another monster omlette

 

[Berger82]

Smoked Mississippi chuck roast

Smoked for a couple hours and thrown into Dutch oven. 1 stick butter, 2 packs au jus, 1 pack ranch, and a few pepperochins and juice. Bout half a can of beer added after shredded.

 

[jark87]

Got our reverse sear on last night with prime bone-in ribeyes. Turned frozen, oven-baked tater tots into restaurant quality side dish by adding fresh minced garlic to melted butter, tossing tots in the butter, and grating fresh Parmesan cheese on top. Poured remaining garlic butter over the steaks. Yum!

 

[jark87]

So who has a big cook planned for Thanksgiving? Traditional turkey dinner or something else? I love turkey and for whatever reason, Thanksgiving is the only time I cook one, so that’s our plan. I’ll spatchcock and brine it in a buttermilk brine and I’m going to try Chef Tom’s honey butter glaze recipe that also includes injection of the glaze sauce into the breasts. Since it will be spatchcocked, I doubt that I’ll have a pan large enough to cook it like he does, so I’ll just go straight on the grates. I’ll also cook at a slightly lower temp - around 350°.

What are your plans?

 

[DAB942]

So who has a big cook planned for Thanksgiving? Traditional turkey dinner or something else? I love turkey and for whatever reason, Thanksgiving is the only time I cook one, so that’s our plan. I’ll spatchcock and brine it in a buttermilk brine and I’m going to try Chef Tom’s honey butter glaze recipe that also includes injection of the glaze sauce into the breasts. Since it will be spatchcocked, I doubt that I’ll have a pan large enough to cook it like he does, so I’ll just go straight on the grates. I’ll also cook at a slightly lower temp - around 350°.

What are your plans?

I'm going to brine, spatchcock and smoke the turkey next week. It was pretty amazing last year.

 

[Newdude]

I love turkey and for whatever reason, Thanksgiving is the only time I cook one

It's $1.79 or $1.29 a lb at Bjs all winter. I make one once a month on Sundays just for fun. We get several days out of it with easy leftover meals to start the week and there's enough ways to mix it up the spoils with pot pies, sandwhiches or soup that it never gets old. By the time BJs stops carrying them, I no longer want the oven on all afternoon in the spring.

It's funny because we went with fresh Turkeys a few times, and while they were great, they just didn't have that comfort food mojo after growing up with ButterBalls.

 

[Newdude]

Yall ever make an upside down bird ? The dark meat dripping keeps the white meat good and moist. If you go the whole time the top of the bird gets kinda soggy down below so I cook it upside down until it crisps, flip it back over until that browns and foil it for whatever is left.

The process puts some grooves on the top side from the wire rack, so you lose the perfect presentation on the table, but I cut mine up before serving so nobody sees it anyway.

 

[DAB942]

It's $1.79 or $1.29 a lb at Bjs all winter. I make one once a month on Sundays just for fun. We get several days out of it with easy leftover meals to start the week and there's enough ways to mix it up the spoils with pot pies, sandwhiches or soup that it never gets old. By the time BJs stops carrying them, I no longer want the oven on all afternoon in the spring.

It's funny because we went with fresh Turkeys a few times, and while they were great, they just didn't have that comfort food mojo after growing up with ButterBalls.

I'm not a huge turkey fan. Historically, my family does something in the community and I always work on the day after. So, we don't have the typical feast at the Thanksgiving Day feast with table scapes and all. We will make everything, then you have the option to go in to leftover mode and make turkey sandwiches, which I do love. We've been doing this since the kids were tiny. The first time my parents came over, I thought my mother was going to have a coronary -- on the other hand my dad was in heaven.

Over the years, we have tried several turkeys -- I've ordered heritage turkeys, which as uber expensive and honestly, it was OK -- certainly not for the price. The grocery store brands seem to be just fine. I've never had wild turkey, that didn't come out of a bottle. I hear they're fantastic.

 

[DAB942]

Yall ever make an upside down bird ? The dark meat dripping keeps the white meat good and moist. If you go the whole time the top of the bird gets kinda soggy down below so I cook it upside down until it crisps, flip it back over until that browns and foil it for whatever is left.

The process puts some grooves on the top side from the wire rack, so you lose the perfect presentation on the table, but I cut mine up before serving so nobody sees it anyway.

I have done that a couple times. The meat was great -- the skin bummed me out.

 

[Newdude]

The meat was great -- the skin bummed me out.

I found it works best with big birds well into the 20s. That way it's cooking for so long it has the time to crisp the skin on both sides. A 14 pounder is done too quickly for that.

I tried right-side up flipping it midway a few times but those didn't cook the white meat well for the back half, needing to cook longer drying it all out.

So I start upside down and if I time it right, it rivals any other bird out there with fancier styles.

I've never had wild turkey, that didn't come out of a bottle

We have a local turkey farm that's about as close as you can get to wild. Its free range and freshly processed when they hand it to you. For lack of a better cliché, it's too gamey for us. It's great as its own thing, but like I said it didn't have the right mojo for the big occasions.

 

[jark87]

Yall ever make an upside down bird ? The dark meat dripping keeps the white meat good and moist. If you go the whole time the top of the bird gets kinda soggy down below so I cook it upside down until it crisps, flip it back over until that browns and foil it for whatever is left.

The process puts some grooves on the top side from the wire rack, so you lose the perfect presentation on the table, but I cut mine up before serving so nobody sees it anyway.

I think I did that once, but honestly can’t remember how it turned out, which probably means it was good! I tend to remember the failures. Spatchcocking kind of accomplishes the same thing. The entire bird cooks evenly because it’s flattened out. That way you don’t have the breasts drying out because they take too long to reach temp. You also lose the grandiose whole bird presentation, though, but the skin renders perfectly!

 

[Brentr]

More attempts to create the monster omlet

 

[Brentr]

We hosted a birthday party and I did Bacon wrapped jalapeño peppers. Everyone says this may be my best. Thanks to a large griddle