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Pork and beef oh my

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col klink

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Howdy Folks,

This Sunday and Monday, the 30th and 31st, I'll be smoking up another mess o' meat. Earlier I mentioned smoking up pork shoulders and turkey breasts. Unfortunately all of the breasts have been gobbled up (sorry for the pun) but I am going to open up shoulders to whoever would like them, likewise more corned beef brisket. Responses to the first batch of smoked corned beef brisket were so great that I'd like to do it again. Anyone who places an order before I start smoking Sunday morning will receive whatever they ask for. Well, maybe just slightly less, but if you ask for pork and/or brisket, you'll receive pork and/or brisket.

Last time everyone used the PM system. This time, please, PLEASE email me if you would like to try some smoked meat. The PM system is a really neat feature of eGullet, but it's difficult for me to keep track of everyone. Email is by far easier (see below).

It’s time now for the nitty gritty. From the last batch of corned beef brisket I learned that there will be about a 50% loss of weight after smoking so for those of you who'd like some, tell me how much you'd like and I can get it within 10%; as before, I'll be asking $8/lb. Before I underestimated how much I could provide, but whoever asked for some, received some.

I'll come clean and say that I've never weighed my shoulders after smoking them but I'm expecting about a 25% loss of weight after smoking. I believe there's an error of only 10% here because shoulder doesn't have nearly as much fat as a whole, untrimmed brisket. Why is this important? I’ll know how much to buy now. :biggrin: I'll be asking $6/lb for pieces of smoked shoulder.

If you'd like some shoulder or some brisket or would like some of both, email me via the email button at the bottom of this post and I'll be happy to oblige your request or answer any questions. Before you ask too many questions however, read up on the smoked corned beef thread.

Shipping will be $3.85 per 3lb increment for shipments in the US.

The Colonel

edit: qualified shipping costs.

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Howdy folks, just to let y'all know, 2 of the three corned beef briskets went on today and will come off sometime around midnight. Why so late? Well, I didn't get them on until 6 because I was working on the new cold smoker all day. Here's my buddy Jeff working on the base with his oxy-acetylene torch:

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Here he his with his mig welder laying down the beads:

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I'll be doing a seperate write-up on it later but I thought you guys might be interested.

edit: I don't know how to spell.

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The corned beef briskets came off about a half hour ago. According to their fat trail, it's going to be a good batch.

Xanthippe

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The corned beef briskets came off about a half hour ago. According to their fat trail, it's going to be a good batch.

Be still, my heart!! Mmmmmmm, FAT . . .

pixelchef

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Hot damn, I can't wait. Which one is mine? :) When are you sending these badboys out again, klink? Damn man, you're the king.

pixelchef

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Here is something I posted in the calendar for April Fools Day, but the calendar was beginning to get a little cluttered on that particular day, so the guys cleaned it up. It has been requested that I post this here, for shits and giggles.

The Colonel's Secret Recipe Contains Crack!

Reuters NewMedia - Tuesday April 01, 2003.

SEATTLE (Reuters) - No, not that Colonel. Matt Treiber (street name: "col klink") has been arrested today on narcotics violations. Treiber's home was raided Monday night by local FBI officials on a tip that he was marinating his smoked meat products with crack cocaine. One customer of Treiber's, "pixelchef", first tasted one of the colonel's beef briskets nearly two weeks ago. Since that time, he has been experiencing severe withdrawal. Sources say he was seen running naked through the streets screaming "I've lost my meat!" over the weekend. When officials searched Treiber's home, they were astonished by what they found. Thousands of pounds of smoked pork shoulder were packed "violently" in what appeared to be a secret underground lair. Upon tasting the meat, one agent commented "this shit is so good it should be illegal". That was good enough for them. Treiber faces life in prison. Pixelchef faces indecent exposure charges.

bigbear

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..... Pixelchef faces indecent exposure charges.

Released for insufficient evidence?

-- Jeff

"I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." -- Groucho Marx

=Mark

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Big time lie. Conspiracy time...

=Mark

Give a man a fish, he eats for a Day.

Teach a man to fish, he eats for Life.

Teach a man to sell fish, he eats Steak

col klink

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Just a little update. Today I'm smoking up two more butts and another corned beef brisket. I thought I was going to finish today but I still have more pork and the turkeys left. I'll be shipping everything out on Wednesday as well.

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Ok folks, today is the last of the smoking. I started off with the last four shoulders and two sets of turkey breasts. When the breasts were done I threw on the last corned beef brisket.

Here is one of the shoulders from last night:

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Here is the last of the meat to jump on the smoker:

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And here's my freezer! I mean my lair!

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I begin shipping bright and early tomorrow morning.

col klink

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I'm going to have to drop a big apology because I didn't make it to the Post Office in time to drop off all of the shipments. Between figuring out the "inventory," who gets what and printing out labels I piddled the afternoon away and missed the cut-off time. Never fear though, all I have to do tomorrow morning is bag 'em and drop 'em off and it's a done deal.

Last time I ended up smoking about 70 lbs of fresh brisket, this time I smoked 50 lbs of brisket (which was not enough in the end), 70 lbs pork shoulders and butts and 12 lbs of turkey breasts. That may seem like a lot but there were only 4 breasts. :raz:

So all of that meat smoked down to about 65 lbs and across the board I pretty much had about a 50% loss in weight regardless of the meat being smoked. Oh yeah, and it took 4 days to smoke it all.

juuceman

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Matt-

Thanks so much for taking the time and putting in the effort to do this for all of us poor city folk without the option to smoke on our own..

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Since I met Klink at Salumi for lunch today, I now have my pork butt. Of course it's delish. Not as fatty as the brisket and the grain is a bit tighter. I'd have to say I slightly prefer the beef (it's the fat, of course), but there's no way I'm complaining. Klink's da man!

col klink

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Klink, I saw on one of your pics one of those tiny creme brulee torchs on your grill.  What do you use that for?

I use it to light fires and candles mostly. My fiancee bought for me as part of a crème bruleé kit and it's all right for that, but it really is underpowered but it's great for fires and candles. I love the little guy.

Nightscotsman, did you heat any of that pork up first? That will loosen a lot of the juices from the meat.

Juuceman, you're welcome!

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