Pecan Smoked/Roasted Chicken Leg Quarters
Got a bright idea to use my ½ rack Char-Broil SRG Chicken leg holders with Chicken Leg Quarters. If I may say so myself, it turned out to be a good idea. Once again I used my SRG basket in the Bradley Smoker (OBS) so that after 2 hours of Pecan smoke at 250ºF I could transfer the Leg Quarters right into the SRG. Nothing better than zero Carb Chicken
Here are the chicken leg quarters with a little EVOO rub and Jans Dry Rub ready to go into a preheated 250°F OBS.
Here they are in the OBS after 2 hours of Pecan smoke at 250ºF … Ready to go straight into the SRG
After ~ 35 minutes in the SRG, pulled them when the IT reached 180º
All in all, using the ½ rack SRG Chicken leg holders worked out to perfection
The money $$hot … Staying true to the Atkins lifestyle by having some scrumptious Pecan smoked chicken and some mashed cauliflower. Fortunately, I actually love cauliflower
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Oak Smoked Pulled Beef … Almost
Got me a 4.3lb Chuck Roast from my local butcher, Fagundes Meats. It was about 1.3″ thick.
Slathered it with Mustard and some Fegundes Seasoning. OBS preheated to 225º. 3 hours of Jim Beam smoke. In at 6:45AM. The Ambient temperature was 38º/Foggy/damp. IT at 54º.
9 hours later IT sitting at 163º and not climbing! Planning to have my Son’s Family over for Pulled Beef Sammies but alas no such luck. I probably screwed up big time but I pulled the Chuck Roast and am now 2 hours into FTC. Here’s what it looked like prior to FTC.
The Chuck Roast is done big time cause it sat there at 163º for hours but I doubt that it will turn out to be pulled beef once the FTC is done in another hour!
What did I do wrong? Should I have left it in the OBS till it hit 190º – 200º? I normally have patience but this time I’m not so sure waiting would have helped 
Should have just been patient cause it did turn out be be really good sliced roast beef, just not Pulled Beef … 
There’s always next time …
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Pecan Smoked Turkey Breast
Invited my Son’s family over for a quick and dirty Smoked Pecan Turkey Breast dinner with all the trimmings. Took a 7.18 lb bone-in turkey breast and used some EVOO with Fagundes Seasoning. Set PID to 250ºF and used 7 Pecan bisquettes. 1st use of my new Big Green Egg Vertical Turkey Roaster. Mounted the breast on the Roaster and placed it in my SRG basket so I can transfer it directly to the SRG to finish off the breast after the Pecan smoke.
Here is the magnificent breast after 2 1/3 hours of Pecan smoke in the OBS and finished off in the SRG. I do believe that I will always finish off my poultry in the SRG from now on since they turns out so wonderful …
This will have to serve as the money $$hot cause everyone, including 3 of my Grandchildren, jumped on this like a pack a ravenous hyenas 
Ya gotta love smoked meats!! … Wonder what I can smoke next for them? Had some taters, turkey Stove Top Stuffing (5 minutes, you can’t beat it for simplicity), gravy, and corn to go along with the bird.
You can see how moist the turkey breast turned out by looking at the juice running off on the cutting board.
Here’s my Son auditioning to become a hand model 8->
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SRG Chicken Drumstick Test
Decided to try me some drumsticks in the Char-Broil SRG so I figured why not incorporate a small test that so many others have done. 6 of the drumsticks were rubbed with some Roasted Garlic EVOO and Fagundes Seasoning under and on the skin. The other 6 were rinsed and coated with Mies All Purpose One-Step Breading. Here you can see the difference in appearance. Give ya 3 guesses as to which was which
Using some drumstick ½ racks for the 1st time. Here they are about 40 minutes later. You can see how they’re browning differently.
The finish product. Left them in 1½ hours on High with the Lid Open. Both types look scrumptious!! Very moist and the skin was nice and crisp and quite good.
The money $$hot. 2 EVOO/seasoned drummies surrounding a Mies drummy and a nice salad.
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Hickory Smoked Pork Shoulder Roast
It was time to get off my Butt so I picked up a nice 8.59lb Pork Shoulder Roast from my local butcher, Fagundes Meats, for my 1st Pulled Pork. Using my Bradley® Electric Smoker at 225ºF with 5 hours of Hickory smoke. Figuring on 18-20 hours for some succulent Pulled Pork.
Slathered the Butt with some CT and John Henry’s Pecan Rub Seasoning. Wrapped in plastic food wrap and into the fridge overnight. The Pork Shoulder Roast was well trimmed and had a nice small fat cap on it.
Into the OBS for 5 hours of Hickory with the PID set at 225ºF for 30 hours. 20 minutes later is when the troubles reared their ugly head. First off the Smoke Generator would not advance any bisquettes. After many attempts I unloaded all the Hickory pucks and to make a long story short I loaded a bisquette manually every 20 minutes for 5 hours. Hey, I got my exercise So the bottom line is I need to clean the SG more often
Then I noticed a large pool of water under the OBS. Turns out that the foil which was holding 4+ cups of hot water had a hole in it and the water was all over the bottom of the OBS and leaked out through the front left leg assembly. Long story short – got a new pan, mopped everything up and continued on with my 1st Butt Note to self: Don’t be too frugal (that’s cheap to everyone else but in Ripon the Dutch like to say they’re ‘frugal’)
Here’s the Butt after 22½ hours. Fortunately I’ve read so many posts from everyone that I knew not to panic when the Butt stalled. In the first 6 hours it went from an IT of 48º to 156º. I’m thinking this is gonna be done in no time … Wrong!!!! That’s when I remembered about the STALL. It’s gonna stall – it always stalls – and yup … everything slowed to a crawl. But then I was in no hurry. It took another 15½ hours to go from 156º to 198º. That’s when I pulled it. I will say that I’m really glad my Son installed a 2nd element in my OBS cause with the PID it performed flawlessly. Got me some nice bark on that porker.
Here it is after a 3 hour FTC. I was going to do 4 hours FTC but my appetite got the best of me 
Using the new pitch forks the wife picked up for me I pulled my first Butt. Everything was so moist and tender that I didn’t even need the meat puller. It literally just fell off the bone.
Wife had a nice Sammy but I just grazzed 
So here’s the money $hot with the bark mixed in. All in all, it was a huge success and I just received a call my two granddaughters who just loved the meat. That made it all worth while! I need to do me another one or two real soon. But after my first 24+ hour smoke/FTC I think I’ll just kick back and get some zzzzz’s
