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first bacon turned out GREAT!

OliverB
OliverB Posts: 22
edited November -0001 in EggHead Forum
well, my first project for my new BGE was to smoke some self cured bacon, and I can't believe how well it went! The egg came up to temp and simply stayed there once I closed the vents to maybe 1/2 or less of an inch! Simple as that! No adding coal, no nothing. Just kept an eye on the temp and on the internal temp of the bacon, increased the heat a bit to 300 since dinner was ready and I was getting tired, but wow am I impressed. Also made a wonderful pizza and a tasty juicy tri-tip and pork tenderloin, more to come this weekend! I think I'll put that leg of lamb in my freezer to use :-)

Let's see if I can get a picture or two in here, otherwise you can find the bacon story with pix on my blog (November 09 archive in case it drops off the home page)
www.diablokitchen.com

hmm, sorry, I don't have time right now to figure out how to get pix here, I guess I need the URL for each photo? Have to make dinner now, so for now feel free to check my blog for a bunch of them!

Can't wait to set some more fire!

Oliver
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  • Pepper Monkey BBQ
    Pepper Monkey BBQ Posts: 652
    Almond wood huh ???? ... interesting ... can't say I've ever had anything smoked in almond wood ... are you out in California????


    Joel
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    mattesoncreations wrote:
    Almond wood huh ???? ... interesting ... can't say I've ever had anything smoked in almond wood ... are you out in California????


    Joel

    Theres a local place that claims to Grill/BBQ over almond (Yes out in the land of fruits/nuts). The BBQ is fake (aka if you put BBQ sauce on something that doesn't make it BBQ) and the grilling doesn't seem to pick up much actual smoke or flavor from the almond wood they claim to use :( . So I too am curious how actual smoking with almond wood works out.
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  • OliverB
    OliverB Posts: 22
    the rancher where the pig came from suggested the Almond wood, that's what they use (as they have the trees). Turned out really nice.
    Yes, I'm in The SF Bay Area, out east at the foot of Mt Diablo.
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  • OliverB
    OliverB Posts: 22
    worked great, like any other hard wood. I got two branch pieces, maybe 10 inch each and about 2 across. Cut some 2 inch or so slices off one and broke those into smaller pieces, soaked them and just put them on the coals. The smoke had a pleasant "camp fire" smell to it and maybe two of the chunks got mostly smoked away. Very nice taste. as far as i know you can use many hard woods, lots of fruit and nut trees are good. Don't know if all are good, might be worth experimenting by just making some smoke with different woods, if it smells pleasant it'll probably be good?

    I'd have to do a side by side to compare with other woods, but then I'd either need to make this a day long operation or get a 2nd egg (hey, there's an idea!) and I don't have either :-)

    Don't know where you live, but if you can find somebody with an Almond tree, it's worth asking for a branch.
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