BBQing Reefers - What's on your grill/smoker?

[Reef-junky]

What I’ve been waiting for

 

[TheOne]

What I’ve been waiting for

You can never have enough room to put stuff while grilling. I've got to pick up a table like this for my bge.

 

[Reef-junky]

You can never have enough room to put stuff while grilling. I've got to pick up a table like this for my bge.

Nice

Is that a cutting board or counter top on it? I plan to make a full outdoor kitchen.

 

[TheOne]

Nice

Is that a cutting board or counter top on it? I plan to make a full outdoor kitchen.

That one is granite. I'm going to build one like it for my outdoor kitchen this summer. I've got a Blackstone griddle I'm going build next to it also. Love the griddle for bigger cookouts of 12 or more.

Keep the snow up there. It went from 70 two days ago to 55 today, ha!

 

[Reef-junky]

That one is granite. I'm going to build one like it for my outdoor kitchen this summer. I've got a Blackstone griddle I'm going build next to it also. Love the griddle for bigger cookouts of 12 or more.

Keep the snow up there. It went from 70 two days ago to 55 today, ha!

You make that your self?

 

[TheOne]

You make that your self?

No thats on etsy. Im lucky that my dad has a nice shop and my BIL does woodworking for a living. Should be fairly easy to build.


I built this in my backyard by myself in one weekend.

 

[shred5]

The biggest pro is the convenience. If you get a good pellet smoker you can walk away from it for hours at a time and never have temperature fluctuate more than 10 to 15 degrees. They also make very clean smoke if properly maintained.

The cons? They make very clean smoke if properly maintained. Clean smoke doesn't do very much to add a "smokey" flavor. You still get all of the great chemical reactions to set up the bark. Some people let wood pellets smolder in a smoke box for the first hour or 2 of a cook to add some "dirty" smoke for a smokier flavor. I personally have learned to enjoy the lighter smoke flavor, especially on chicken. The other con is that you need electricity so have a plan if you lose power.

It is less but I have not noticed allot less smoke like some people claim. I have if you use cheap pellets that have filler and are not 100 percent wood yea there is a difference. I think it is way over blown. Smoke is supposed to enhance the flavor not be the flavor.
Personally I like the pellet smoker over anything now. I can go out and work in the garden or on the truck and comeback.
Mine I am going to be changing out the controller to wireless making it even easier.

 

[Brew12]

It is less but I have not noticed allot less smoke like some people claim. I have if you use cheap pellets that have filler and are not 100 percent wood yea there is a difference. I think it is way over blown. Smoke is supposed to enhance the flavor not be the flavor.
Personally I like the pellet smoker over anything now. I can go out and work in the garden or on the truck and comeback.
Mine I am going to be changing out the controller to wireless making it even easier.

I agree with you 100%, but I think some people have come to associate that bitter smoked flavor with how BBQ should taste. I've got a friend whose BBQ I can't eat because it tastes like camp fire ashes to me, but that is what he calls good BBQ. I want the enhancement from the wood, he wants the bitter smoke flavor. That is why I called it a pro and a con.

 

[Reef-junky]

So are the sear boxes the same as propane grills?

 

[Brew12]

So are the sear boxes the same as propane grills?

Its a very high powered propane burner.

 

[exasperatus2002]

Hey guys over the last few weeks I have noticed a lot of the reefing community is into my other love, BBQ. On our local SoCal forum we had a 5 year running thread where people would show off the grills, smokers, and of course, meat! Since that forum is now dead, I thought it would be cool to make one here and lets just keep it going for as long as the embers burn!!! This is your chance to show off your skills since it's a lot easier to take good BBQ pics as opposed to good coral and fish pics.

Striped bass, shrimp, burger, chicken, jalopeno poppers, boston butt, wings, ribs. I miss venison. Im not having a good hunting season this year.

 

[Reef-junky]

Its a very high powered propane burner.

Can a propane grill be used for searing or do they not get hot enough?

 

[Brew12]

Can a propane grill be used for searing or do they not get hot enough?

It depends on the grill. Some get hot enough on their own, some have sear burners built in. Others just can't hit that 600F+.

 

[Reef-junky]

I was looking at table top grills like this. Would this work?

 

[Brew12]

I was looking at table top grills like this. Would this work?

I doubt it. You want over 20,000 BTU in a single burner, this has it spread out between 2 burners. Over 25,000 BTU would be even better.

 

[biecacka]

My dream would be a good stick burner. Gets crazy hot to sear my steak or burger....but can keep that good low and slow burn too.


corey

 

[shred5]

Last year for Christmas I got as a gift a spice/rub of the month club which is actually every other month.
This years they got me in a club where you get different sauce, brine's or injections. Also get one marinade for jerky.
I am stoked for this.

 

[shred5]

I was looking at table top grills like this. Would this work?

This one is made for my pellet smoker but It probably would not take much to get it to maount to any other.

16,000 BTU burner reaches temperatures up to 900 Degrees F

 

[TheOne]

I've gotten my big green egg up to 700°. It works great for pizzas. Here's a couple of homemade pizza's I cooked awhile ago.

If you've never had a pizza over coals you are missing out. The first bite into it and I truly believed I had never tasted a real pizza before.

 

[Reef-junky]

This one is made for my pellet smoker but It probably would not take much to get it to maount to any other.

16,000 BTU burner reaches temperatures up to 900 Degrees F

The holes are in a completely different pattern then what’s on my grill. I suppose a metal plate could be made or something but my shelf is in that spot now. I was thinking to see if one of the guys at work could make some kind a stand or plate for it to mount it.