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My wife gave me a Big Green Egg for my birthday.\u00a0 Whenever it comes up in conversation, we just say \u201cBPE\u201d.\u00a0 Best present ever.\u00a0 It was the perfect gift.\u00a0 The kind of thing that you would never purchase for yourself but something you desperately desire.\u00a0 It has been fun to play with.\u00a0 (A side note:\u00a0 my only word of warning to those considering the purchase is that it does require frequent cleaning to cook property.\u00a0 And cleaning it is a bit of a pain).<\/p>\n

I smoked a pork butt in my Egg a few weeks ago using charcoal and hickory.\u00a0 I put the butt on at about 9pm, adjusted the vents\u2026..then went to sleep.\u00a0 The next morning I woke up at about 7pm (I like my beauty sleep) and found it still cooking at about 240, exactly where I had left it the night before.\u00a0 The pork butt was cooked nicely, not as black as I would have liked (gimme that bark!) but very tender.\u00a0\u00a0 Once it cooled down, it tore apart easily and the meat was tender and juicy.<\/p>\n

The problem was the smoke.\u00a0 That may sound like an odd thing for a BBQ guy to say, but there are different types of smoke (as well as different types of wood).\u00a0 Aaron Franklin of Franklin\u2019s BBQ (Austin) had a great line when asked whether he likes to keep the fire door of his smokers open:\u00a0 do you like to look both ways before crossing the street?\u00a0 His point was YES, keep that door open and give that fire lots and lots of air.\u00a0 He likes the mild, sweet flavor of \u201cblue smoke\u201d, smoke that comes from a free-burning fire that is fed plenty of oxygen.\u00a0 \u00a0If you see a smoker cooking with this method, it generates very little cloudy smoke.\u00a0 Instead you see slightly discolored vapors coming out of the chimney.\u00a0 Blue smoke.<\/p>\n

Now think about the fire in that Egg.\u00a0 It is suffocating.\u00a0 It gets very little oxygen and is continuously exhaling lots of white, cloudy smoke.\u00a0 \u00a0On the bright side, it burns wood and charcoal very efficiently.\u00a0 That\u2019s why I never had to get up in the middle of the night and feed the fire more hickory or charcoal.\u00a0 But that efficiency is coupled with some intense, smokey flavor.\u00a0 And in my opinion, if you are using hickory, that flavor is strong, overpowering and unappetizing.<\/p>\n

I actually prefer a middle ground: a mixture of blue smoke and the kind of white puffy smoke that you see coming from an Egg.\u00a0 But to each his (or her) own.\u00a0 My advice to those who are smoking on the Egg is use a mild wood like pecan or apple.\u00a0 Hickory is too strong (and don\u2019t even think about mesquite.)<\/p>\n

Tonight I am moving on to next battle\u2026.porterhouse steaks on the Egg.\u00a0 My wife and I like the \u201cblack & blue\u201d cooking style.\u00a0 Nice and charred on the outside and very, very rare on the inside.\u00a0 Like I said, best birthday present ever!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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