🔥 What's cooking on your SmokeFire/Searwood? 🥩

[RSchiers]

I know the weekend is over but I am starting a pork butt for dinner. I will update as it goes.

7 hrs in and my alarm went off on my stand alone thermometer. Headed out to check on my EX6 and it was froze up and making the buzz sound. Power cycled and tried to start it up and it wouldn't start. I pulled the grills out and the fire pot cover to find that the ignitor was encrusted in like a coked pellet dust. So I won't say that Treager pellets are ok anymore.

 

[RSchiers]

7 hrs in and my alarm went off on my stand alone thermometer. Headed out to check on my EX6 and it was froze up and making the buzz sound. Power cycled and tried to start it up and it wouldn't start. I pulled the grills out and the fire pot cover to find that the ignitor was encrusted in like a coked pellet dust. So I won't say that Treager pellets are ok anymore.

After cleaning that crap out it started right back up and was up to 275 in 10 minutes. Cook is back on.

 

[RSchiers]

After cleaning that crap out it started right back up and was up to 275 in 10 minutes. Cook is back on.

Cooks done. Butt is resting.

 

[RSchiers]

Cooks done. Butt is resting.

Dang all, that was the best pork butt I have ever done. Go smokefire.

 

[bishoman]

I had two successful meals on my SmokeFire over the weekend, see the videos.

 

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[FredSC]

Seared some Tuna steaks last night, sorry no pictures folks. Today smoking some butts and will put on some baby back ribs in a bit.
9am added some baby backs to the pit.
1:30 pm ribs are done, foiled and resting in the oven.
4:30 pm having some ribs, nice smoke ring, and very tasty!
9:00 pm Butts out of the cooler and pulled, Black gold....Carolina Style pulled pork...damn good.

Recipe I used for my Ribs and I've been using this for years and these in my opinion are the best tasting of all the recipe's I've tried. I selected the pellets based on the wood chucks specified in the original recipe. I also add some hickory, that is not used in the original recipe. Best Ribs In the Universe by Mike Scrutchfield

For the Butts I used The Renowned Mr Brown Recipe

 

[DutchieCooks]

Had some ribs tonight end up cranking the heat because I started cooking too late and I was hungry still turned out great.

 

[primeone]

Wow, loving this thread! Thanks for everyone for sharing these photos!!

 

[Captainmike]

Third weekend cooking with my SmokeFire and absolutely loving my EX6. Today was St. Louis ribs and pork belly burnt ends. Went at 250 for first few hours then backed down to 220 for rest of cook until the ribs reached 195 internal temp, took the ribs off, redressed the burnt ends then cranked SmokeFire up to 270 to finish off the ends. Ribes went inside in my cooler, I did not wrap them at any point. Total cook time just over 6 hours. Plenty of pellets in hopper and of course they funnelled on the auger side but I could have easily gone another 5 hours. Some ash and definitely grease in bottom but nothing concerning, grease was working it’s way to the drip pan. It was a really windy/gusty day to add, my grill is set in a spot where the wind blows across the grill right to left. Never noticed a temp drop or fluctuation.

Best. Ribs. Ever. Better than my offset. Great smoke ring. We were literally squeezing out juices as we were eating them. 1 1/2 hours in the cooler, perfect tenderness but not fall off bone and so much flavor. Hickory Weber Pellets.

 

[GriLLMaRksRseXy]

I have to say this is my FAVORITE thread on the whole forum! I am loving all the food and ideas on what to cook next! I just want to run down the entire thread and click Like and Love on everything. I cannot wait to get my SmokeFire back up and cooking!

 

[rock1640]

First time making burgers on a pellet grill, Mac & cheese and some foil potatoes
turned out amazing!!! When the damn grill works it’s badass, did I a breakfast casserole this morning on it and fought with it keeping temp/ dinner worked perfect. CRAZY!!!

 

[Dadhastoomanygrills]

Pizza last night came out great! Though I did have my first “failure to light”. It started fine, but then I noticed it wouldn’t get over 65 degrees and there was just a lot of smoke coming out. I looked inside and confirmed no fire, just a fire pot stuffed full of pellets with no flame. I shut down and re started, and on the second start up it worked flawlessly. Today I just took off a pork butt after the initial 6 hours of 275. I used thin water pans on top of the flavorizer bars and it worked great. Had to refill them once as they evaporated completely. It’s now wrapped and in my Genesis gas grill to finish the cook as I am almost out of pellets, and why burn expensive pellets when I can burn cheap propane at this stage of the cook. I’ll post another update but after the shutdown I looked in the cooker and it was full of ash. I mean a ton of it. So much for all the ash dropping out the bottom. I can see how if I had let the grease drop to the bottom it might have mixed and created a big mess. Or, maybe the grease would have collected the ash and taken it out the bottom. No big deal, I vacuumed it out and ready for the next cook. I also had to keep an eye on the pellets as it probably would have flames out after stopping after they got hung up and stopped feeding the auger.

 

[GriLLMaRksRseXy]

Pizza last night came out great! Though I did have my first “failure to light”. It started fine, but then I noticed it wouldn’t get over 65 degrees and there was just a lot of smoke coming out. I looked inside and confirmed no fire, just a fire pot stuffed full of pellets with no flame. I shut down and re started, and on the second start up it worked flawlessly. Today I just took off a pork butt after the initial 6 hours of 275. I used thin water pans on top of the flavorizer bars and it worked great. Had to refill them once as they evaporated completely. It’s now wrapped and in my Genesis gas grill to finish the cook as I am almost out of pellets, and why burn expensive pellets when I can burn cheap propane at this stage of the cook. I’ll post another update but after the shutdown I looked in the cooker and it was full of ash. I mean a ton of it. So much for all the ash dropping out the bottom. I can see how if I had let the grease drop to the bottom it might have mixed and created a big mess. Or, maybe the grease would have collected the ash and taken it out the bottom. No big deal, I vacuumed it out and ready for the next cook. I also had to keep an eye on the pellets as it probably would have flames out after stopping after they got hung up and stopped feeding the auger.

Thats a nice pie. And and even nicer Booty! Good Color on it. Did you make your own dough? I want to do pizzas like that but never tried. They look so tasty. My EX6 on both of my failures to ignite did the same thing. Did you have ANY pellets burned? Or did you just shut down procedure and fire it back up with the pellets in it?