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I have a Nesco Professional 600 watt dehydrator and it will run at 160 F, jerky only takes it 4 hours.   Of course there’s no smoky flavor. 😉 I’ve been using ground meat lately instead of slicing up whole hunks. Have a “jerky gun” that extrudes the meat into 2 inch wide by 1/4” thick slabs. 

Yes, you shouldn’t “partially cook” chicken. If you plan to eat it later you should still cook it to 165 and then just heat it up later. 

I never crutch ribs. They usually don’t cook long enough for that to be of any use, (unless as you said, you want them tender) I find “tender” to really mean  “mushy”.  Baby backs I cook for about 4-1/2 hours. St Louis ribs closer to 6, but I mop/spray them for the last 2-3 hours. 

Looks like you’ll be in pork heaven for awhile there Fred 😉👍   On a side note since I mentioned it here, we got our hot tub up on the deck today. I rented a five foot tall exterior scaffold, and with the help of some members of the Special Olympics Weightlifting team, we got it up on the...

Well we are talking about Carolina. Which regardless of where it appears on a map of the US, everyone I know still thinks of it as a “southern” state. 😉 North eastern Carolina sauce has no tomato content, and is basically just vinegar. Southern Carolina sauce uses mustard instead of ketchup...

They sell this locally, it’s pretty good: https://lilliesq.com/products/carolina?variant=39484229255338&currency=USD&utm_medium=product_sync&utm_source=google&utm_content=sag_organic&utm_campaign=sag_organic&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIlIm884Ph8gIVmWxvBB1G6QC6EAQYAiABEgJU5_D_BwE   I do make my own, but...

Fat up, fat side down? The question of the ages..😉 In the offset...fat side up. Definitely.  But I’ll flip it if I go to spritz it. (You don’t need to spritz the fat side.)  In the UDS? Fat side down. But still use a water pan for do no other reason than to keep the dripping fat off your...

Ah. 205 seemed odd to me. 😉 They look good and you succeeded in getting me thinking about big butts  .....  I may do a butt (or two) soon on my UDS with my homemade “guru”,  instead of butterflying it for the reverse like I did last time.    I always assumed all temperature controllers were PID...

You must have a huge family 😉 205 for a cooking temp seems a bit lower than what most go with, is there a reason behind this?

Got my new gas grill assembled. Was  pretty straight forward, instructions easy to follow...  So far, grilled up some chicken breasts, some Jalapeño brats, and some hot dogs.   Heats up quickly, controls work great. Burners are closer to the food grate than the other grill, so “HI” will work...

You got some left over motorcycle grips for that T handle? looks good. Now start cooking ...

“Only thing left to do is to shoot some paint on all the bare metal ”   And put some marine grease on all those pivots....     Looks great. Need a TPS  system so your meat doesn’t slide off to one side. 😉

Our deck at the other house caused us to lower the tub in with a 100 ft crane. 😳   Our deck here is just over 9 feet high at it’s  shortest point.  Crane won’t work here because of narrow rock driveway with drop off and power lines.    Problem we’ll hopefully solve when we get back. 

We had the deck reinforced in the section the tub will go with an extra double beam and two more 6X6 posts 3 years ago in anticipation. 😉 The hot tub we are getting is also a small two person model, that’s about 1/2 the weight of your usual square one.      The real problem will be getting the...

Awhile back I mentioned of not being sure about keeping my Jenn-Air gas grill. One of the burners crapped out, the grease trap’s mount broke off, and a wheel fell off. Otherwise, it still worked fine.   Well as we have a hot tub on the way, which will be going on the deck, the wife decided to...

(I had figured the pit weighed much more than just 200 pounds 😉)    The ribs look great, even upside down.  Surprised they took more than 4 hours, (granted I have not done any yet) What temp you pull them at?      You now have me on a hunt to find some. (Beef short ribs right?) would Ike to do...

You know, when I looked at the photos of the Brazos I actually thought to myself, “4ft long, 19” wide, 1/4 inch steel?  Things got to weigh like 200 pounds. Why the rustic metal wheels? Gotta be a pain to roll around” 🤔 Had metal wheels on a wine cart and it only took one tiny almost invisible...

Looks pretty sweet Fred. My reverse has a 33X23” food grate, which gives me about 759 square inches of cooking area, close to what you got there. Have yet to fill it all up, but it’s nice to have that space.    Just about all the reviews I’ve read on your Brazos have been positive. Am sure...

Have a relative with a cabin on the shore in Olympia. Real nice place to visit, couldn’t say what it’s like to live there however.     My daughter lives on the east side of the state In Kennewick.  So, west very pretty. East, not as pretty, but nice wineries.😉 

I like how Triumph climbed up the list near the end. Must be due to me recommending them 😉