Must be a holiday weekend, two Grill Notes in two days..... Hard to believe we've had the Trailblazer almost a year and this is the first time we've done ribs on her......no excuses.... Since this is the first time, and I absolutely hate ribs that are too tough, we're giving the 3-2-1 method...
We really like it too, we moved here as both of my parents are in their mid/late 80s, plus after living in the DC area for 23 years, we were ready to settle down for our retirement years someplace with significantly less pace....this place is definitely that!
First and foremost, thanks to my fellow service men & women who've made the ultimate sacrifice for our country - I have WAY too many friends who we've already laid to rest in Arlington. Our thoughts of them and their families are always on our mind.
THAT SAID, so this evening's Pizza night was...
A NEW variation on an old theme......... this Trailblazer cook is inspired by a Meat Church video and recipe for a rubbed Whole (Spatchcocked) Chicken, smoked, & cooked, THEN basted (immediately after being pulled from the smoker) in an Alabama White Sauce. If it goes well, we see this also...
Pops, thanks for the comments, and I'm glad my notes were consistent and worked for you guys. I think your pics were great! OBTW, the "master chef" picked up another whole chicken today (between rain storms....) and we're planning to try a very similar cook sometime this week (weather...
Pops. we did NOT flip the chicken, so chicken was "on it's back" (as pictured) for the entire cook. Also note, because of the relatively low temp we just kept it on the Grill Matt (if you have one), it isn't required, but we think it makes handling the chicken on/off the grill easier. Let us...
Out of "laziness", usually it's the oven, we've used the trailblazer for veggies before, but on a day to day basis, it's usually the Recteqs for the protein, and the oven for the rest.....
Haven't done a "duel smoker" cook in a while, thought we try a Reverse Sear effort with some Petite Filets this evening. Using the Trailblazer to smoke the steaks for ~30 min (target of 100F), followed by a short hot one on the Bullseye to finish off the cook. Kind of a slow day today, as I'm...
This will be a relatively short set of Grilling Notes as it's just a pizza, HOWEVER for us it was an initial test set for cooking pizza on the Trailblazer (vice the Bullseye). As the summer social calendar "hopefully" picks up, we wanted to make sure we were comfortable with the heat settings...
As far as size, I think an 8-9 lb brisket will feed 3 for a couple of days, but I guess everyone has different consumption rates! Don't worry about it, my first brisket, we just followed the guidelines from the RecTeq recopies from their web site, and it worked just fine.