What’s Steve-Oh-Two cooking today?

[Pullstart 62,831]

@Achto and @WHX?? have been tooting their horns about these Davey Crockett smokers for quite a while, that they can plug in to the cigarette lighter and run an 8 hour smoke and still start a tractor at the end.  Acquiring @stevasaurus’s 702, I have a tractor with a lighter socket.  On the same trip, @WHX?? gave me a smoker he got for free and fixed up a bit.

 

I love my Traeger, but there are times it doesn’t make sense to heat up such a huge cook surface for a little meal.  This little smoker is great, and gives me an excuse to run a Wheel Horse around a bit (to charge the battery up of course)!

 

Earlier this week I did 12 chicken drumsticks.  They ran at 225 for about an hour.  Yum!

 

 

[Pullstart 62,831]

Today, I made a meatloaf, if you will.  I also do this type of mix, make patties and call them “veggie burgers” because my burgers have veggies inside.  I think that counts, right?

 

Two packages of venison burger, 5 or 6 red onions, and about 8 small sweet peppers, along with an entire head of garlic.  I sautéed the onions and peppers in oil and a little mayonnaise, and added the garlic.  I topped the hot pan of veggies with some black pepper grinder and tumeric.  I mixed the veggies in with the meat, added some Sweet Baby Ray’s bbq sauce, more mayo, and about 1/3 cup of sweet relish.  Don’t forget to add the washyersister sauce!  I mixed it well, and added it to a greased foil pan.  It’s running at 200 degrees right now since about 11:30.  About 3, I’ll cover it with foil and bump it up to 250.  At 4:30, I’ll uncover it, add more bbq sauce and crank it up to 350 to finish for supper at 5.

 

 

[stevasaurus 22,713]

I think I can smell that from here Kevin!!  Awesome accesory for the 702!!  

[Achto 27,562]

Looks like a great meal Kevin.

 

Did not take a tractor up Nort camping with us so my Davey Crotch-itch is running off the camper battery. 4 racks of baby back ribs, cooking at 225. Started  at noon, will be ready at 6pm.

 

 

[squonk 41,051]

10 watts isn't much power. It's amazing it works at all! I read that the wattage may get to 60 at start up.  Might want to fuse the lighter feed or :

 

 

 

[Pullstart 62,831]

It’s fused 

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6 hours ago, Pullstart said:

@Achto and @WHX?? have been tooting their horns about these Davey Crockett smokers for quite a while, that they can plug in to the cigarette lighter and run an 8 hour smoke and still start a tractor at the end.  Acquiring @stevasaurus’s 702, I have a tractor with a lighter socket.  On the same trip, @WHX?? gave me a smoker he got for free and fixed up a bit.

               Now there is an excuse for buying a Wheel Horse I've never heard before.            

[Pullstart 62,831]

I smoked a venison hind roast yesterday.  It was seasoned with dry rub when we vacuum packed it.  I took it out and smoked it at 150 for three hours, and foil wrapped it with the juice from the package and a bit of butter.  I cranked it to 200 for two more hours.  I then brought it inside and seared it in bacon grease before resting and slicing.

 

 

[Beap52 809]

You all have made some mighty fine eats on some good looking equipment.  I've got an old Brinkman smoker that the only original parts remaining are handles, water tray, hardware and lid.  It's over 30 years old and the stainless steel used to replace the rusted metal parts one came from wrecked Jeepney in the Philippines where we lived.  Then it was used in Thailand and finally to southwest Missouri.  I have combined and electric Brinkman smoker with charcoal so I can use either.  The bottom section housed my A-maze-n pellet smoke generator. The red section is where the electric heating element is located, and above it, the main body.

 

In the Philippines, me and our maid baked bread in it.  I used a blower from a microwave in order to be able to get enough heat from the charcoal (coconut hulls) to maintain the 350 degrees needed.  We made a few bricks but managed to produce some fine tasting homemade bread.  Sometimes on a Saturday Luz, our cook, would say "Sir, let's make bread today."  We'd bake a couple loaves of bread then throw on a slab of ribs.

 

It always goes with us camping.  We nearly always bake biscuits for breakfast over open fire for breakfast.  A couple weeks ago while trout fishing at a state park, we smoked a fresh pork shoulder all night, a deer roast (I think that what it was called), deer and elk backstrap, biscuits and of course smoked several trout. 

 

The past few years, I have taken to dutch oven cooking.  We also baked a fresh blackberry/peach pie.