The Best Thing You Grill/Smoke

[Tabascocat]

Do you just cook it in the oven per the instructions or smoke it?

Those are already pre-cooked/smoked, just follow instructions for the oven because smoking it will do no good, it won’t hold it. You would need to find one not cooked to smoke.

 

[Crazed Liotta Eyes]

I hate to admit it but I suck at grilling and cooking in general. I had a nice grill at the last house I was in but ended up leaving it for the buyers. I'm thinking about getting a new one to try and learn with. Any recommendations for a grill?

 

[Tabascocat]

I hate to admit it but I suck at grilling and cooking in general. I had a nice grill at the last house I was in but ended up leaving it for the buyers. I'm thinking about getting a new one to try and learn with. Any recommendations for a grill?

Charcoal, gas, pellet or wood....whats your preference and budget?

 

[big dog cowboy]

Do you just cook it in the oven per the instructions or smoke it?

Just put it in the oven. No clean up to speak of. Little prep. Finish slicing it and spread it out on a platter and watch it disappear.

 

[big dog cowboy]

I hate to admit it but I suck at grilling and cooking in general. I had a nice grill at the last house I was in but ended up leaving it for the buyers. I'm thinking about getting a new one to try and learn with. Any recommendations for a grill?

https://www.rectecgrills.com/

 

[Tabascocat]

https://www.rectecgrills.com/

Steering a beginner to a $1200+ grill?

I was going to suggest a Weber Smokey Mountain

 

[aria]

I like Webers myself, I have both gas and charcoal. Don’t worry @Crazed Liotta Eyes I suck as well. I overcook everything, get frustrated and therefore hardly ever use either.

Every now and then I fire up my smoker and get mixed results.

 

[Sammy]

Anyone with experience smoking a ham? I’ve never tried and don’t know the first thing about it. Do just buy a regular store bought sliced spiral ham that is pre cooked and smoke it at a very low temp? How long? What temp?

I don’t jack.

Post back if you try it. Hams just don't taste like they did when I was a kid. Is it the smoking process?

 

[aria]

Post back if you try it. Hams just don't taste like they did when I was a kid. Is it the smoking process?

You got me, I need to try smoking one but want to talk to someone with a little experience first. I’ll definitely post back when/if I get around to it.

 

[big dog cowboy]

Steering a beginner to a $1200+ grill?

No idea where this came from. They sell grills for significantly less than that.

 

[Rockport]

I hate to admit it but I suck at grilling and cooking in general. I had a nice grill at the last house I was in but ended up leaving it for the buyers. I'm thinking about getting a new one to try and learn with. Any recommendations for a grill?

Can’t go wrong with a Big Green Egg. Pricey but the perfect backyard grill.

 

[Tabascocat]

No idea where this came from. They sell grills for significantly less than that.

Kind of but the lowest grill of theirs that is worth consideration is the Trailblazer. You can find them as low as $600 but then you have to get the accessories to go with it. It would still push 1K by the time it is all said and done.

Rectec’s are awesome but it is also pellets, not much to learn on those really aside from pushing a button and walking away.

He wants to learn, so the Weber or even a BGE is perfect for that using lump coal and wood.

 

[CouchCoach]

I hate to admit it but I suck at grilling and cooking in general. I had a nice grill at the last house I was in but ended up leaving it for the buyers. I'm thinking about getting a new one to try and learn with. Any recommendations for a grill?

Depends on if you want convenience, gas, or get in touch with your inner caveman with real fire and hardwood charcoal. Or if you want to smoke?

I've got a Weber gas and charcoal grill and think they're the best for the money and my latest smoker is a Dyna-Glow gas, which is easier than wood and not as much work and it's the wood flavoring the meat anyway. I've had every smoker including one of those offset "damn, I didn't agree to devote my life to this thing" wood smokers. Had a Big Green Egg that I nicknamed Humpty Dumpty because I knocked it over and it became 5 pieces of Humpty and all the king's horses...…..you know the rest.

Crazy, I gotta say that if I were getting back into it, I'd go with a Weber charcoal grill and/or an affordable water smoker like Brinkman, both affordable and a gas grill is nothing more than an outdoor oven. However, there's more control and consistency with gas and reverse searing a steak is a pain in the butt with charcoal.

I have had a brisket and beef ribs off a Traeger pellet grill and didn't care for it. Those pellets are like compressed sawdust and have a funky aftertaste to me. It's like using hardwood charcoal vs briquets, hardwood much mo bettah.

 

[CouchCoach]

Can’t go wrong with a Big Green Egg. Pricey but the perfect backyard grill.

The less expensive ceramic ones work just as well, paying 3-400 for the name.

 

[CouchCoach]

Don't know if y'all catch this program on PBS but Steve Raichlen's Project Fire is a great show for backyard BBQ boys and he has all of the toys. It's more involved than most of us want to get into, for the most part, but I have found he's the best guy as a go to for BBQing and smoking and his cookbooks are great. The man has every outdoor cooking apparatus made. He's has this really cool ceramic Kamado style grill only it's like an egg on it's side, with more space.

The other great cooking show is Rick Bayless' Mexico: One Plate at a Time. Most of that can be cooked out back.

 

[Rockport]

The less expensive ceramic ones work just as well, paying 3-400 for the name.

They pretty much cook the same but the hardware (stand, etc.) are not as well made. Not sure if they seal as well when the lid is closed but to me it looked like they wouldn’t.

 

[Crazed Liotta Eyes]

Charcoal, gas, pellet or wood....whats your preference and budget?

I guess charcoal. I think I spent around $400 on the last one I had and it was gas. I can't remember the brand.

 

[Crazed Liotta Eyes]

https://www.rectecgrills.com/

Wow, those are really cool.

 

[Crazed Liotta Eyes]

Depends on if you want convenience, gas, or get in touch with your inner caveman with real fire and hardwood charcoal. Or if you want to smoke?

I've got a Weber gas and charcoal grill and think they're the best for the money and my latest smoker is a Dyna-Glow gas, which is easier than wood and not as much work and it's the wood flavoring the meat anyway. I've had every smoker including one of those offset "damn, I didn't agree to devote my life to this thing" wood smokers. Had a Big Green Egg that I nicknamed Humpty Dumpty because I knocked it over and it became 5 pieces of Humpty and all the king's horses...…..you know the rest.

Crazy, I gotta say that if I were getting back into it, I'd go with a Weber charcoal grill and/or an affordable water smoker like Brinkman, both affordable and a gas grill is nothing more than an outdoor oven. However, there's more control and consistency with gas and reverse searing a steak is a pain in the butt with charcoal.

I have had a brisket and beef ribs off a Traeger pellet grill and didn't care for it. Those pellets are like compressed sawdust and have a funky aftertaste to me. It's like using hardwood charcoal vs briquets, hardwood much mo bettah.

Thanks for the advice CC and RIP to your Big Green Egg. I'm looking at the Weber and Brinkman models now and they are in my price range. I'm going to have to commit to using these when I pull the trigger or I'll never hear the end of it from my wife.

 

[Tabascocat]

I guess charcoal. I think I spent around $400 on the last one I had and it was gas. I can't remember the brand.

The Weber Smokey Mountain is versatile and multi-functional, highly recommend it but get the 22” if you go that route