Inaugural smoke

[colecp]

Baby backs, stuffed Poblano peppers and a mustard oil cabbage. I typically do a 2-2-1 with ribs but it seems as if most folks never open the smoker when it gets started. What about foiling, basting, spritzing, etc?

 

[old sarge]

Hi Chris - I don't spritz with the electric although with my old offset I did.  Regarding foiling, I did it once or twice and found it more trouble than it's worth.  But both spritzing and foiling are purely personal.  Some do and some don't.  What a few have done is foil some and leave the rest naked and choose which one passed the family test.

 

[colecp]

Thanks! Great idea, a taste off! For what it's worth, the first cook was fantastic! I did foil out of habit but will try both methods next time.

 

[basketrunner]

looks great.  did you cook the meat in the poblanos first or did you put in raw?

 

[colecp]

Thanks!

They were stuffed with pre-cooked chorizo just to get some of the grease out, then mixed with cream cheese, cheddar and sour cream I think. My wife concocted these. If it was grind beef it would have gone in raw.