Smoking Hot

My husband is a smoker. Ribs, pulled pork, brisket, you name it! And he’s getting really good at it too!! 

Quite a few years ago he bought a Traeger smoker from a local shop. And he’s put it to good use. But lately it’s been showing it’s age. Sometimes it would drop the temperature and sometimes the pellets would get stuck. It’s tough to babysit a smoker when it takes 19 hours to smoke a brisket. 

So a few days ago he decided to upgrade. He recently bought a Traeger Ironwood 650. And it is so cool!! It has wifi so you can monitor not only the temperature of the smoker but the temperature of the meat as well!! And you can do it all from your phone so he can be at work and still keep an eye on your supper!! It makes smoking something all day a lot easier. It is also programable so if your brisket needs to spend the first few hours at a low temperature but then the next few at a higher temperature, you can set it and not have to worry about changing it. Plus the app has recipes and you can tell it how many people you are feeding and it tells you the proportions to make. It’s pretty cool!!

This brisket was the maiden voyage of the new smoker. He started it at 9:30 last night. We stayed up late spritzing it, making sure it stayed nice and moist. Then we got up at 4:30am to wrap it and then went back to bed. 

My husband also decided to try and make burnt ends as well! You basically take a chunk of the brisket and before it’s all done resting, cut it into one inch chunks and then put it back on the grill smothered with barbecue sauce.  We had it for lunch!! 

Then it was time for the main event! I made some mac and cheese to go along with it. 

The best part of the whole process is... anything he makes, I get to eat!! Win Win!! And I mean there are worse ways for a man to burn through money.