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

[CEd4jets]

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.

Those ribs look great.

 

[abmet]

Smoked some turkey breasts for lunches this week and tried my first reverse sear with some KC strips and smoked vegetables. Steaks hit 110 sooner than expected so finished the veggies on my Genesis while searing the steaks. Had a small flair up on my Genesis but steaks still turned out great.

 

[Dadhastoomanygrills]

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?

There were just a few that were slightly burned, but otherwise they were fresh out of the hopper. I vacuumed out the fire pot as I thought the system might flood the fire pot even more if I didn’t. The grill went through a successful shutdown, so it would expect the fire pot to be empty along with the auger. Both were still full.

 

[Dadhastoomanygrills]

The final pulled pork from today’s cook. Ended up firing the grill up one more time in order to grill some fish for the wife. I did a complete vacuum of the cooking area and fire pot after the pork butt, as there was so much dust in the bottom after the 6 hour cook session. But the grill ran flawlessly, held temp perfectly, the app even alerted me as to when it was time to wrap the butt.

 

[DutchieCooks]

Made some beef short ribs yesterday. Was done in about 10 hours

 

[Vinny-L]

Did these ribs including some of the trimmings and pork belly on my ex4, I used a tray mostly for the pork belly, the ribs by themselves would have been fine. Came out great! This photo is about 2.5 hours in on the ribs and not long after I put the pork belly.

 

[RSchiers]

Made some beef short ribs yesterday. Was done in about 10 hours

Gotta love Dino ribs

 

[DanaM]

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.

 

[bishoman]

Took about 9 hours, 6 of which wrapped in butcher paper.

 

[DanaM]

Even though I returned my EX6, I’m looking forward to buying another one once they put in all the fixes/upgrades;
When mine worked the smoke ring and flavor were amazing! Weber proved that an open belly pellet grill can produce better smoke and sear than any others in the market. This concept is what sets it apart from all others, just a few tweaks to the grease catch design and hopper will have me ordering my next EX6.

 

[SmokeMeister]

Even though I returned my EX6, I’m looking forward to buying another one once they put in all the fixes/upgrades;
When mine worked the smoke ring and flavor were amazing! Weber proved that an open belly pellet grill can produce better smoke and sear than any others in the market. This concept is what sets it apart from all others, just a few tweaks to the grease catch design and hopper will have me ordering my next EX6.

Absolutely! Everything that came off the grill was great whether it was smoking or grilling. Looking forward to v2.

 

[Brad S]

I have to agree so far everything has tasted great on this grill. I just started having my first issue though - 2 failure to lights where I had to do the shutdown procedure, clean out the burn pot and restart. Each time it started the second time but I hate waiting for that shutdown procedure. With that said, I am committed to keeping my grill because I like the way I can use it like a regular grill. I'm waiting for support on that plus I asked about the hopper feed issue and grease fires on long smokes of fatty meats. Lets see if they take care of my issues. If not then I'm bailing. Might go with a Grilla Grills - Grilla. It's different looking but it's kinda growing on me. That fire window with the gorilla looks sweet.

 

[abmet]

Absolutely! Everything that came off the grill was great whether it was smoking or grilling. Looking forward to v2.

Hopefully v2 fixes can be incorporated into the current cookers if possible. I'm hoping most of the issues are faulty parts that are replaceable, beyond issues with grease not draining which fortunately I haven't experienced.

 

[SmokeMeister]

I have to agree so far everything has tasted great on this grill. I just started having my first issue though - 2 failure to lights where I had to do the shutdown procedure, clean out the burn pot and restart. Each time it started the second time but I hate waiting for that shutdown procedure. With that said, I am committed to keeping my grill because I like the way I can use it like a regular grill. I'm waiting for support on that plus I asked about the hopper feed issue and grease fires on long smokes of fatty meats. Lets see if they take care of my issues. If not then I'm bailing. Might go with a Grilla Grills - Grilla. It's different looking but it's kinda growing on me. That fire window with the gorilla looks sweet.

The only knock against Grilla is the lack of wifi connectivity and an app for control/monitoring. If you can live without that, I think it's a good option. Hopefully your failures can be fixed and you won't have to worry about that.

 

[DutchieCooks]

Gotta love Dino ribs

They were sooooo good