Saturday, December 13, 2008

two words

I have two words for you tonight. Smoked meat. Yep. We've been enjoying smoked meat around here, thanks to Carl and Alton Brown. You see, Carl watched an episode of Good Eats where Alton makes a meat smoker out of some terra cotta pots and an electric hot plate. It didn't seem too complicated, so Carl got to thinking about how he could do something like that on a smaller budget. He was thinking that smoked turkey sounded awfully good for Thanksgiving.

After some though and experimentation, he found that if he put two of the hot plates in his charcoal grill (after cleaning out any charcoal leftovers) and a small metal pan on each burner for wood chips, that he could smoke meat quite nicely.

The first meat he smoked was a boston butt. He brined it and the made a rub, like Alton had done in the above mentioned episode. It came out fabulous. Then the turkey. Oh my goodness. It rained on Thanksgiving, so the temperature in the smoker was a little lower than the previous time, so we put the turkey in the oven for an hour or so, just to make sure the internal temperature reached the safe zone. I do recommend a probe thermometer for this process. Its good to be safe with your meat. The turkey was very tasty, and moist and tender.

Since then, we've had smoked brisket and just last week Carl smoked some polska kilbasa sausages out there. wow. Today he was busy smoking meat again, this time for Christmas gifts. We made deliveries this evening on the way to gaming.

Smoked meat. yum. I'm just saying...

1 comment:

Fran said...

Okay, now I'm seriously hungry. Man, that sounds great! Good for Carl, and lucky you guys!