Beginner Smoking: Pork Shoulder & Beef Brisket - 2 of 3

Smoking brisket and smoking pork shoulder.

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Howto & Style

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• smoked
• pork
• butt
• Boston
• electric
• smoker
• barbeque
• shoulder
• bbq
• brisket
• slow
• cooking
• gas

[Paloopasaurus]

This video took me way back. Ur obviously a novice smoker. I applaud ur persistence. But my man, u need to USE that smoker. Step 1 Always. Always. Always soak ur wood chips for atleast an hour if u wanna produce a nice heavy smoke. Step 2 STOP opening ur smoker. Step 3 read about "plateau" in bbq!! I learned on this same smoker. Still use it today! One of my favorites! Good luck rook.

[14dollarz]

@Paloopasaurus This was a while ago and i've definitely gone through my set of smokers. No more chips are the ones I've have now are much bigger. Even got into BBQ competitions and have videos on that too.

[mikegnb01]

don't use foil. Dump the wood chips into the smoker, it will smoke that way and leve the door CLOSED. It is not a slow cooker it is smoker.

[unipainter]

if your lookin you aint cookin

i have the same smoker and cut and dry my own woods, never a problem from shoulders to chicken.

[adambaseball3000]

Smoking pork shoulder today as soon as the store opens! On a weber though

[14dollarz]

@Realman333007 It was 30. The 40 would be much bigger. The window gets pretty dirty quick so you really can't see in it after a while, but doesn't really matter. The packers will fit in the 30 but you have to rig something underneath them to make them have an "arch" shape or else it will hit the sides.

[Realman333007]

@14dollarz Was yours the 30 incher? And if so, would a 40 incher be the way to go? You said big packers don't fit well, do they fit or is it just tight? That 40 incher with a window in the door is very interesting.

[14dollarz]

@Realman333007 I got it as a beginner smoker. Very easy to use. It can fit butts, but larger full packer briskets don't fit well. After this one I got the Landmass gas smoker. I have a video on that too.

[Realman333007]

@14dollarz Why did you get rid of this one? Would you recommend the 30 incher to someone who wants to make bigger pieces of meat like butts and briskets? Also what smoker did you replace this one with?

[AnotherAmateur]

@scottgeiger88 It is because the video camera making individual images (about 30 per second) and the LEDs blinking on and off on the smoker oven are at different rates. You can see the same thing on my Cookshack smoker's panel in my videos. If the camera and the LEDs, or a TV monitor, are synchronized then you will not see the twinkling.