Blogwatch: Jason Perlow Is Smokin'
Jason Perlow, author of Off The Broiler, bought a box smoker for $75 last week that his photos suggest he's been putting to incredibly good use. Seventy-five bucks and meat that looks like that? Great buy, Jason!
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4 Comments:
Looks awesome. Wish I had a backyard!
Raphael at 9:59AM on 07/03/08
I wish I could have some sort of Poltergeitst/Last Action Hero moment right now with my computer to reach out and grab that meat and eat it!
JudgeFudge at 10:15AM on 07/03/08
Actually, I looked over the receipt and I spend $59 on the smoker and $15 on charcoal and lighter fluid.
The smoker is listed online at $59.
http://www.homedepot.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ProductDisplay?storeId=10051&langId=-1&catalogId=10053&productId=100606045
jperlow at 10:57AM on 07/03/08
I do want to add a couple of other comments here. You will notice that on the Home Depot site, the product has a particularly low rating. This is largely because most people think that a smoker is like a toaster, in that you throw meat into it and expect it to come out perfectly cooked and smoked without having to babysit it. Barbecue is not an automatic process -- you need to monitor your meat every 15 minutes or so and make sure you are maintaining temperature. You have to stoke the charcoals every so often and add new charcoals as needed. You will need to add new wood chips every hour if you want a strong smoky flavor. You also need to use more of them than you think you do. For 3 hour smoke, you are going to go thru 5 to 8lbs of charcoal if you are using Kingsfords. You will use less if you are using lump charcoal. Also, the basic Brinkmann has ventilation issues in the charcoal bowl, so you will want to drill a whole bunch of holes in it and get a small baking sheet to catch ashes on the bottom. I also recommend you get yourself a chimney starter, because otherwise you are going to use a lot of lighter fluid.
If you can put up with these issues, the Brinkmann is a great starter smoker. Its definitely on the low end of smokers. For about three or four times the price, you can get a Weber Smoky Mountain (the "bullet") and not have to babysit it so much.
http://www.amazon.com/Weber-2820-Smokey-Mountain-Cooker/dp/B00004U9VA/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=home-garden&qid=1215098878&sr=8-1
But you won't necessarily get better results in terms of the end product.
jperlow at 11:29AM on 07/03/08