3-2-1Ribs; inverted chickens; smoked cheese; (indirectly) smoked coffee

Canugghead

OT since all done on Traeger (not all together), easier than BGE in frigid weather...

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3-2-1 back ribs for swmbo's workplace party...




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topsy-turvy chickens inverted/invented by @Little Steven @Little Steven
pepper and pre nuked tater+carrots soaked in chicken fat!





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I've done smoked cheese many times in the egg, using soldering iron and wood chips in soup can.  Usually 1.5 hrs was sufficient and ice cubes would turn quite brown and liquidy. Cheese would smell strong and needed at least 2-3 weeks to mellow.

Pellets in AMAZN tray generates much 'milder' smoke. Went for 2.5 hrs, burned less than 1 row of pellets (created break between burning and unburned pellets to extinguish the fire). The ice cubes barely melted and just the top layer turned brown slightly.  Finished cheese don't smell like ashtray, hope it picked up enough smoke.  



Made a cuppa with the ice cubes, nice hint of smoke, coffee also tasted 'more roasted' if there's such a thing. Saving the whole pan of ice cubes in the freezer!

DMW

That all looks great. I need to try the smoked ice thing.

Hans61

Nice cooks! How’d the chicken taste?

Canugghead

@DMW Thanks, it's interesting indeed, in hind sight I should have stirred the cubes a few times to pick up more smoke.

@Hans61 Thanks, it's very different than chicken from BGE, kind of hard to describe. Also, leftover chicken from BGE tastes way too smoky.  Still prefer pulled pork and brisket from BGE though.  Ribs is a toss up between BGE and Traeger.  Even during the summer I've been using Traeger more frequently.
edit: can't believe I'm loving Traeger as much, if not more, than BGE 

bgebrent

Nice cook brother GWN!  Looks delicious.

Canugghead

@bgebrent Thanks brother, just got our first big snow, over 10cm, looking like GA lol!

bgebrent

Canugghead said:

@bgebrent Thanks brother, just got our first big snow, over 10cm, looking like GA lol!

We got 6"!  Fortunately goes away quickly.  Happy holidays brother.

Canugghead

@bgebrent Wow! Thanks and Happy Holidays to you and yours!

Stormbringer

Oh I like the ice cube smoking trick with the coffee! Going to try that this weekend.

Canugghead

Woohoo, no waiting!
After resting overnight in fridge, we tried the mozz ... wow, taste just fine, not acrid like ashtray!  
Huge difference between wood chips (without lump) and wood pellets cold smoking.  With wood chips the ice cubes turned into muddy brown water in 1.5 hr, vs. pale brown mostly still frozen ice cubes after 2.5 hr with pellets. 
Really like this Vitalgrill pellets http://vitalgrill.com/product/pellets-north-mix/