Smokin.....Oh Yeah !!!

[scott_vt]

Good Afternoon Guys,
Fathers Day menu, chicken thighs and boneless pork ribs ! Kathleen is making german potato salad, but shouldnt someone else be doing the smokin ???

 

[Bird]

Scotty, that sounds good, but in this part of the country, I'm not sure we'd even have to light the first to smoke stuff today. Ninety-six degrees that last time I looked out.

 

[scott_vt]

Scotty, that sounds good, but in this part of the country, I'm not sure we'd even have to light the first to smoke stuff today. Ninety-six degrees that last time I looked out.

Good Afternoon Bird,
Wow thats smokin hot !!! I gotta show you what the pork ribs and the chicken look like after 5 hours !

Love to talk but its time to eat !

 

[Bird]

Yep, Scotty, that does look like some good eating. And it's now 99F with a heat index of 102F. So for today, my wife just made spaghetti and meat balls, a salad, and Texas Toast, and one our daughters came with a cheesecake. So no smokin' today, but I shore ain't goin' hungry either.

 

[tallyho8]

Scotty,
For those of us who are BBQ-challenged, it's almost torture to have to sit here and look at those photos and drool.

 

[jinman]

Scotty, that sounds good, but in this part of the country, I'm not sure we'd even have to light the first to smoke stuff today. Ninety-six degrees that last time I looked out.

My daughter took me out for a Father's Day dinner yesterday. On the way to the restaurant I noticed my car's thermometer was reading 102 degrees. Whew! Too darn hot!

 

[Bird]

Sounds like it's probably an accurate thermometer, Jim. I see the NWS shows the Denton airport to have only gotten to 99, but DFW was 101.

 

[scott_vt]

Good Afternoon Guys,
Well the chicken literally fell off the bone, and it was moist and very tasty, just ask my 83 yr old Pop ! The pork ribs came out excellent also, so I guess it was a good smoker outing !

My wife wants me to try smokin some salmon ! I have the boards that can be moistened and then lay the fish on that, but Im looking for some possible marinate ideas for that fish or any other suggestions you guysd may have ! I was thinking something along the lines of a soy sauce type marinate.

Any ideas ???

Thanks !

 

[Bird]

Scotty, I have frequently regretted losing the recipe I had that came from a friend in Alaska. I used it on salmon, sheepshead, shark steaks, and even oysters. I know it was a huge amount of salt in a gallon of water, worchestershire sauce, brown sugar, and lemon juice but I can't remember the amounts. I think it was something like 2 cups of salt, one cup of brown sugar, and maybe a half cup of the worchestershire sauce and lemon juice, but I just don't remember for sure. I know we marinated the fish fillets overnight in the refrigerator before smoking them the next day. And I think his recipe said to rinse them, then let them dry before smoking, but I found I liked them without rinsing; just let them dry from the marinate into the smoker.

 

[Wil]

Oh Jim & Bird that was Cool we got up to 113 here in Yuma.

Now that is HOT.

;-)