Just got my first smoker

[*michaelsean*]

(12-18-2020, 01:09 AM)MileHighGrowler Wrote: Awesome! Welcome to a wonderful hobby. I love stick burners because I have every excuse to sit outside and hang around my smoker all day. I used to start briskets late at night and smoke all night. It was really relaxing staying up all night alone, reading, enjoying the quiet hours. But then I got smart and started to smoke all day and into the evening, and then re-heated the next day.

Definitely a lot of great resources on YouTube. I do mostly Texas style smoking and it just never gets old!

I’m 53 and just starting so I think I’m pretty fortunate to have by chance purchased a pellet smoker. In Oct when I bought it I had zero idea how smoking worked. I think I half thought the smoke did the cooking like curing or something, but had I thought about it I’d realize that was stupid. I do like the fact that it’s closer to wood burning in the the heat and the smoke come from the same source.

I think if I smoke enough over the years to where cooking the meat and telling when it’s time to wrap or when it’s finished in conjunction with a thermometer instead of total reliance on a thermometer them maybe I’ll be ready to try a stick burner. Tackling learning how to smoke along with learning how to run a fire at the same time is more than I want.

I did do by brisket For exams style although I did sneak some garlic powder in with the salt and pepper. I bought some peach/pink butcher paper because that seems to be all the hype now, but when that runs out I’ll probably just use foil.