experiment:Smoking is smoking & Grilling is Grilling so I

[sluggo]

tried both with the same cut (maybe I should put this under both headers LOL). I aways wanted to do a good 'Baltimore pit beef'. but with my gas grill, it never worked out right. so this is what I tried. I bought a piece of bottom round from the Sam's, maybe 4-5#, put in on the Traeger, not so much for the smoke as the slow cook, at 225 for around 2-3 hrs.

then I put it on the gas grill, set as high as I could get it 500+, just to char the outside a little, left it on there until I thought it looked done enough on the outside. I sliced if for sammy's. Came out pretty good. It does have a little smokey flavor to the beef, but it was very tender, sliced okay even though it was warm. A good horseradish sauce made it great!

final product here, after I eat about half of that SOB!!

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[bigwheel]

Good job Sluggo. Looks delicioso. Now kindly scuse my ignorance on this issue but have heard on fairly good authority them pellet poopers can get hotter than a two dollar pistolo if a person is so inclined. Why not just dance with who brung ya as in smoking it up for a while then flippy da pellet auger over to high speed? Enquiring minds need to know stuff like this. Thanks.

bigwheel

 

[surfinsapo]

JB makes something like that.. He says don't over cook it or it is shoe leather... Slice thin and enjoy... Looks yummy Slugger

 

[sluggo]

Good job Sluggo. Looks delicioso. Now kindly scuse my ignorance on this issue but have heard on fairly good authority them pellet poopers can get hotter than a two dollar pistolo if a person is so inclined. Why not just dance with who brung ya as in smoking it up for a while then flippy da pellet auger over to high speed? Enquiring minds need to know stuff like this. Thanks.

bigwheel

well I thought about that, but the temp on the cooker high says 450, on my grill it says 600 and I know I have pegged it higher then that before. I wanted real hot to put some char on it, fast, so it doesn;t get over cooked. that's why I went with the gas. well that and when I crank up the Traeger it burns off all that other stuff from butts and ribs etc and it smokes like an SOB, so I wanted to be good to my neighbors!! but thanks for the idea, when I get up the nerve I am try!! (do you think I should burn that stuff off anyway??)

 

[bigwheel]

Well yessir on the burning up the crud. That is the only way fat lazy boys do it I think. Now I woulda swore my old chum who cooks on and peddles the Traegers tole me he could get the one he uses up to 700. In fact he says it makes a lot mo betta grill than a smoker. It dont get stuff smokey enough to suit him. Course he is an old offset log burner boy at heart. His strategy is to let it smoke without any heat for a few hours then start turning up the dial. Gets purty close using that strategy seems like.

bigwheel