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Title: Smoking with your scraps
Post by: KarlB on April 13, 2015, 07:51:31 pm

Well this weekend I was making some beef jerky and while I was waiting I cut out some ornaments for Christmas.   Since the wood was cherry I threw the scrap into the fire to add cherry flavor to the jerky.  (I had also added some chunks of cherry I cut from leftover cherry T&G from work!)

The ornaments (stacked cut) came out fine...
...the jerky came out great!  (Love my jerky!)

Karl

Title: Re: Smoking with your scraps
Post by: pddesertrat on April 13, 2015, 08:10:34 pm

It all looks mighty good!  From the jerky, yummmmmmmmmmmm to the finished ornaments, Awwww!

Title: Re: Smoking with your scraps
Post by: wombatie on April 20, 2015, 02:49:54 am

I have never understood what Jerky is.   :-[  But the ornament look good.

Marg

Title: Re: Smoking with your scraps
Post by: Rover2 on April 20, 2015, 08:12:24 pm

Great work Karl!!  I love jerky and I looks great and it should really be good with the cherry smoke.   I have always liked Cherry wood for my ornaments and yours came out wonderful.
Share some of that jerky in the coffee shop  :) :).

Al

Title: Re: Smoking with your scraps
Post by: thumbs1946 on April 30, 2015, 09:10:01 am

Marg--Jerky is nothing more than dehydrated meat--put different flavorings while smoking--I'm sure they have it down  under. hope that helps--Richard

Title: Re: Smoking with your scraps
Post by: kruzer on May 11, 2015, 04:39:06 am

Where did you get the horse pattern if you don't mind?

Title: Re: Smoking with your scraps
Post by: KarlB on May 11, 2015, 06:25:22 pm

Here's a link to the finished products Kruzer.  It has the description for the ornaments.

http://stevedgood.com/community/index.php?topic=18621.msg169970#msg169970

Karl

Title: Re: Smoking with your scraps
Post by: ChuckD on May 13, 2015, 04:26:33 pm

Tell us a little more about how you made the Jerky.  Was it done on the smoker type or how?  Any spices or other flavors? Love Jerky.:) :) :)

Title: Re: Smoking with your scraps
Post by: KarlB on May 13, 2015, 05:55:15 pm

Well Chuck the jerky is made on a horizontal smoker (Brinkman).  I usually use top round and marinate overnight.  I use soy sauce and water with a couple of Everglades seasonings and garlic etc.  The soy sauce and Everglades seasoning is low sodium.  I will smoke the for around 2-3 hours depending on the heat and quantity of meat.  I use different woods for smoking including apple, cherry, mesquite, hickory, peach, orange.  I've thrown in scraps from my shop of cherry, maple and oak.

That's the gist of it.

Karl

Title: Re: Smoking with your scraps
Post by: BilltheDiver on May 21, 2015, 10:47:09 am

Hey Karl,  I use Everglades a lot around my house.  May well be that people not from Florida aren't familiar with it though.  Another mix I use is Bad Byrons Butt Rub.  Really good and Publix now stocks it in most stores.  I use a lot of cherry in my shop so that is a source for smoking wood.

Title: Re: Smoking with your scraps
Post by: KarlB on May 21, 2015, 07:30:03 pm

Thanks for the tip Bill.  I'll take a look for it at Publix. 

I get a lot of compliments for the Jerky from friends and family, so changing the recipe is not easy.  Although I micro-change it almost weekly depending on what I like.  For instance this past week I put the brown sugar in water and heated it until the sugar was dissolved in the water.  I then mixed all the rest together.  This left a glaze on the jerky when it was done.

Karl

Title: Re: Smoking with your scraps
Post by: Dakota Saw Dust on May 21, 2015, 11:36:11 pm

STOP IT FELLAS  I'm drooling on my keyboard