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Are you saying they were too smokey without any smoking wood. If so, you probably had drippings in the lump and acrid smoke. You need to get a clear smoke off the egg before you put food on.
Steve
Caledon, ON
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Agree with Steven. Did you use a drip pan when you did your pork shoulder? When you light the EGG wait till the smoke clears, to see what the smoke would do to your meat hold your hand in the smoke stream then take a wif of your hand. That will give you a good indication of what your cook is going to taste like.DavidBBQ since 2010 - Oh my, what I was missing.
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If you followed the guidance from BGE then that is the likely source of the heavy smoke taste. I had the same problem the first time I cooked steaks and quickly found different methods-
Check out this link for some good suggestions: http://www.nakedwhiz.com/recipes2.htm#beef
Also the search function will yield other ideas-and if not found here, try www.greeneggers.com .
Louisville; Rolling smoke in the neighbourhood. # 38 for the win. Life is too short for light/lite beer! Seems I'm livin in a transitional period. -
how did you cook the steaks? if you left them in the egg to finish, and you shut down your vents completely, things can taste awfully smokey.greygoose
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it took me a while to really figure it out. let the smoke go clear, and then still wait 10-15 minutes, My wife hated the not-good smokey taste of foof until i figured it out. Now, my chicken, steaks, pork tenderloin is the best. I find the taste from the lump is all i need, I rarely use smoking wood, other than pecan for my pork but or ribs. Chicken and Turky just take on too much of the smoke taste for my family's likes and even mine sometimes.
I use the egg and my outdoor oven. I cooked a chicken last nigth in the Vee roaster, not much different than a Turkey, came out great.
My kids are home from collegge and they are pretty disappointed in the dorm food, every piece of meat is overcooked. and dry.
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I'm not a big fan of real smokey food either. I use a good dry rub and a good thermometer and have great tasting food
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stevesails, your kids got meat? Why, when I was in college.....
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stevesails, your kids got meat? Why, when I was in college.....
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Don't care who ya are ... that there is funny!Thanks for the chuckle
)Never eat anything passed through a window unless you're a seagull ... BGE Lg. -
well it is dried out chicken at best or overdone something else. we called it Mystry meat.
The Breast meat was so moist last night i couldnt believe it. . On a vee rack with celery, apple, onioon and some lemon in the cavity. with some dixxy dust raging river on the outside.
It was good stuff.
XL Walled Lake, MI
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