I did my first cook today on my PBC. I have used a cheap offset for years and produced good food. There is something about the PBC that has always interested me, mainly hanging the meat over hot coals and the claims that a PBC is pretty much a no frills set it and forget it cooker. For those of you that cook on offsets lkke me, you know first hand set it and forget it typically doesn't apply to us.
Anyhow, I decided to cook some baby backs since I've read and heard so many people say that the PBC is a rib cooking machine.
All in all, I have to say that the PBC lived up to the hype. The ribs had great flavor. A little less of a wood smoke than what I'm used to on an offset but they had a great tasti g charcoal smoke along with some notes of Hickory and the flavor combi action was great.
My only negative is that I should have let them go another 30-60 minutes longer as I had a little more of a tug then I normally do. It was a colder day here so I don't think the PBC got up near 275 and I should've known better than to assume 6 hours was a long enough cook time... They needed more time. This isn't any fault of the PBC just my inexperience using it.
Anyhow, here are the results of my first cook. I look forward to using the PBC more often from here on out.
I did my first cook today on my PBC. I have used a cheap offset for years and produced good food. There is something about the PBC that has always interested me, mainly hanging the meat over hot coals and the claims that a PBC is pretty much a no frills set it and forget it cooker. For those of you that cook on offsets lkke me, you know first hand set it and forget it typically doesn't apply to us.
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