Grill / Smoker / Other Meat Prep

[JDavisRoby]

Curious what everyone’s preferred methods for preparing meat to pair with your delicious wines.

1. Grill - Weber Kettle (Hasty Bake on my wish list)
2. Smoker - Traeger - I’m a cheater but it’s too easy and darn good
3. Sous Vide - My newest meat prep device. Anyone else experimenting with this technique?

[Gary York]

Wrong forum. Try EE.

[JDavisRoby]

Thanks Gary. Still new around here. Hadn’t made it that far down the board index yet.

[Brian Tuite]

Gary just likes playing board cop.

[Gary York]

Whole thread on SV. Seek and you shall find.

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[ClarkstonMark]

Grill: Weber Kettle and 18 year old Viking propane when i am lazy
Smoker: Bradley Electric puck smoker (I am lazy)
SV: Have the Anova, but have not used it yet. One day I will try it ....

[JDavisRoby]

Clarkston, I have a Bradley as well. But don’t use it anymore. Find Traeger to be far superior. Probably mainly because the pucks can be hard for me to find locally.

[b. c@stner]

Gary just likes playing board cop.

pot calling the kettle....

[Brian Tuite]

Gary just likes playing board cop.

pot calling the kettle....

Not even close but whatever floats your boat pal.

[b. c@stner]

Gary just likes playing board cop.

pot calling the kettle....

Not even close but whatever floats your boat pal.

pal?

[jordan whitehead]

Humphrey Battle Box Smoker

https://www.humphreysbbq.com

[Brian Tuite]

pal?

[Andrew Kotowski]

Grilling, hands down. I have neither the patience nor the equipment to do long smokes.

[ERPark]

I have neither the patience nor the equipment to do long smokes.

[Andrew Kotowski]

I have neither the patience nor the equipment to do long smokes.

So that was a bit dramatic. I have a Vision kamado, which works, but is a pain in the ass to go much longer than a 3 hr spareribs cook with a constant temp at <=275 on.

[JDavisRoby]

I’ve done ribs on my Weber Kettle but don’t have the desire to do more.

That’s what I love the Traeger (or my Bradley before that). It gives a more than adequate final product with much less work.

[jordan whitehead]

I have neither the patience nor the equipment to do long smokes.

So that was a bit dramatic. I have a Vision kamado, which works, but is a pain in the ass to go much longer than a 3 hr spareribs cook with a constant temp at <=275 on.

BBQ Guru. set it and forget it

[A. Mishaan]

Weber Kettle, BGE XL, Joule (used once)

For smoking on the BGE, the FlameBoss is life-changing.

[JDavisRoby]

Weber Kettle, BGE XL, Joule (used once)

For smoking on the BGE, the FlameBoss is life-changing.

Which flame boss do you use?

[Mike Davila]

Gas Lynx grill when I don’t want to fuss around
Stumps Smoker (charcoal) w/ BBQ guru when I want to smoke
Pizza oven (wood fired) when I want, well, pizza of course, but it cooks a great steak on a Tuscan grill
And we have a Joule we recently purchased and are learning to use.
Big believer in having the right tool, though it’s all good.
Before the Stumps I had figured out a way to smoke pork butts in the pizza oven.

[JDavisRoby]

Gas Lynx grill when I don’t want to fuss around
Stumps Smoker (charcoal) w/ BBQ guru when I want to smoke
Pizza oven (wood fired) when I want, well, pizza of course, but it cooks a great steak on a Tuscan grill
And we have a Joule we recently purchased and are learning to use.
Big believer in having the right tool, though it’s all good.
Before the Stumps I had figured out a way to smoke pork butts in the pizza oven.

Never seen a Stumps before. Interesting design. Do you use the ball valve to control the temp?

[Mike Davila]

No, you can but since I use the BBQ guru, you open the valve 100% and the fan screws into the open valve. The microprocessor then pulses the fan to maintain whatever smoker set point temperature you want, works like a charm.
https://bbqguru.com
The stumps is a heavy duty smoker, it weighs a ton, probably a little more than what we need (just the two of us) and I have the “baby” model.
There are two characteristics that I don’t care for; cleaning out the charcoal chute when your done is a bit messy and when your doing a cook and pull out the grate to baste or sauce your food there is nothing to catch the drippings.
Having said that, it does a really good job on the smoke.

[A. Mishaan]

Weber Kettle, BGE XL, Joule (used once)

For smoking on the BGE, the FlameBoss is life-changing.

Which flame boss do you use?

I got the Flame Boss 300 with wi-fi. Works well, generally handy. But the key is to let me sleep peacefully if I'm doing a brisket or something overnight.

[Bill Tex Landreth]

At the house I have a Weber Ranch Kettle that handle the duties of direct and indirect grilling as well as low temp smoking.

At the ranch, I also have a Ranch Kettle and an offset 24 X 48 inch barrel smoker.

[JDavisRoby]

Weber Kettle, BGE XL, Joule (used once)

For smoking on the BGE, the FlameBoss is life-changing.

Which flame boss do you use?

I got the Flame Boss 300 with wi-fi. Works well, generally handy. But the key is to let me sleep peacefully if I'm doing a brisket or something overnight.

That’s why I love the Traeger for smoking. But having something like that would also grill and move to one apparatus would be nice.