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Model 2 & 2D - The Middle Kid / Re: Whole Packer in 2D
« Last post by mwjman1 on February 05, 2024, 10:19:37 PM »
Hope you smoked this by now - I?ve gone at an angle and place a small stainless mixing bowl under the brisket to get that extra room.  Learned that from Harry Soo for my WSM.  Works great in the #2.  By the time you wrap, you can remove the bowl if the brisket did not already slide off.

PS - wife may not respond well to use of mixing bowl. 
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Auber PID Tips and Tricks / Re: Auto Tuning - Group Results
« Last post by travis on February 04, 2024, 09:58:33 PM »
Auto tune numbers for my si3 with an auber ws1211.
Outside temp 50f, 2 patio paver bricks for heat sink.
P-68
I-850
D-212
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Jerky / Re: Any vegetarian jerky recipes?
« Last post by old sarge on February 04, 2024, 08:15:42 PM »
Sooner or later you will get it just right. There might be a big learning curve.
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Auber Instructions / Re: Auto tune clarification
« Last post by old sarge on February 04, 2024, 08:01:34 PM »
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Auber Instructions / Auto tune clarification
« Last post by travis on February 04, 2024, 07:53:42 PM »
I have read the smokin-it auber auto tune instructions and have some questions regarding the t settings.
T01-0.5
T02-2
T03-1

Does the 0.5 time mean 30sec or 30min
Does the 2 time mean 2min or 2hrs
Does the 1 time mean 1min or 1hr

If the inputs are based on minutes shouldn't it be
T01-30
T02-120
T03-60

Thanks

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Jerky / Re: Any vegetarian jerky recipes?
« Last post by Jim_MI on February 04, 2024, 07:49:31 PM »
Well, the veggie jerky experiment was pretty much a failure!

This was my first time making any kind of jerky, so I had no foundation upon which to build. I thought I would just do a small batch of beef jerky during the same smoke session. Based on one of the online recipes provided by David, I used Butler's Soy Curls as the meat substitute. An 8oz bag of these were rehydrate with a 20 min hot water soak. The rehydrated soy curls looked & felt like cooked chicken but had no taste. These were "wrung out" in a salad spinner and blotted semi-dry to determine a weight so that I could do an equilibrium brine (mistake #1, since unlike raw meat, the soy base had no salt in them to  begin with).

I did a small batch of beef at the same time, but the combined mass of the beef plus soy was only 720 gm. So when I used one of the equilibrium spreadsheets found in the Jerky Forum here, things fell apart. The calculator started with 1 cup Worcestershire + 2 cups Soy Sauce, to which spices, Curing Salt #1, sugar & salt were added according to the spreadsheet. To this, I was supposed to add water to QS to bring the brine weight up to the "meat" weight. But before adding any additional water, the brine weighed more than the "meat" (mistake #2). So no water added, and the extra salt and sugar that the spreadsheet requested did not even dissolve. I split this brine between the beef & soy according to their relative weights. The beef and soy curls were then separately brined in zip-lock bags for 40 hrs.
After brining, the beef and soy strips were quickly rinsed, blotted dry, & racked for smoking.

Based on recommendations in the Jerky Forum here, I smoked at 140F for 2 hrs (1.5 oz Hickory), then started up the James Jerky Dryer. I didn't open the door until 4 hrs into the run (mistake #3). By then, the soy was WAY crunchy. Taste was pretty bad too. The brine was too salty, the sugar used to cut some of that saltiness never dissolved, and the low temp of the smoke left 2/3 of the hickory intact. The smoky taste was more akin to licking an ashtray - not sure if this was "oversmoking" or just low temp bad tasting volatiles flavoring the soy.  FWIW, the beef turned out pretty bad too.

I'll try to attach before-n-after pics of the soy curls, but due to my inexperience with this forum, they may not be there when I hit Post - apologies in advance.

Bottom line is that I need to get comfortable with beef jerky before trying to do veggie jerky.


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Model 3 & 3D - The Big Brother / Re: New wheels for the model 3
« Last post by old sarge on February 04, 2024, 09:39:41 AM »
Was not aware you had a problem. Rolling sure beats carrying!
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Model 3 & 3D - The Big Brother / New wheels for the model 3
« Last post by travis on February 03, 2024, 07:15:27 PM »
After a slight modification my model 3 is rolling again
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Model 2 & 2D - The Middle Kid / Re: Overnight Boston Butt
« Last post by old sarge on February 03, 2024, 02:11:21 PM »
Sounts like a feast!  Thanks!!
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Model 2 & 2D - The Middle Kid / Re: Overnight Boston Butt
« Last post by Trolly1 on February 03, 2024, 09:08:55 AM »
I should?ve taken pictures of everything else.  We had slaw, baked beans and these very small whole potatoes (red and white) cooked in a butter garlic sauce and banana pudding for dessert.  It was a wonderful meal. 
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