* - Weber 26.75" OTG
* - Weber 22.5" Premium cloaked in Crimson
* - Slow 'N Sear
* - Smoke E-Z - 26.75" (The Grain Silo)
* - Lodge Sportsman Grill
* - Weber Rapid Fire Chimney Starter
* - Thermoworks ThermoPop
* - Thermoworks Mk4
* - Thermoworks Dot
* - iGrill2 - 4 probes
* - Favorite Beer - the cold one in my hand (craft beers of all flavors; haven't had a blue yummy in over 6 years) my tastes change with the season so it is difficult to name just a couple. However, I will occasionally have a vanilla porter float in the summer (Empyrean Vanilla Porter w/a scoop of homemade vanilla ice cream) as I usually drink stouts & porters in the colder months, pale ales & IPAs in the warmer months. I have to add Not Your Father's Root Beer to beers I use for floats.
* - Booze - I don't really have a favorite, but lean towards single malt Scotch & Irish whiskey
* - Wines - Reds: mainly the heavy stuff mixed in with the occasional pinot noir ( I have yet to meet a malbec I didn't like); Whites: German & Nebraska (hey, I have to support the home team)
* - Favorite Spice outlets - Volcanic Peppers - Bellevue, NE
* - Current butchers: Cure - Ft. Calhoun
Whatever is leftover in the firebox after the last cook. I normally don't go out of my way to add smoke wood when I'm cooking burgers. HOWEVER, the other night when I was cooking up a 3.5 lbs meatloaf I tossed a couple of chunks cherry I had laying around and they gave the meatloaf a nice color.
When I direct grill my burgers over charcoal, there is usually such a cloud of smoke from grease hitting the coals that I don't think a chunk of wood or two would add much to it! I'm lucky to find the burgers to flip them when I cook burgers on the kettle or my offset with the charcoal pan installed!
Lately I tend to cook smash burgers on the flat side of my Grillgrates, on the Genesis.
Yup, briqs with Hickory, Mesquite, or Applewood Hardwood , is what I'm advocatin...even in an SJS, with a 4-6 min burger / brat / chop sear, it imaparts (with th lid on), a very noticeable smoked flavour...give it a whirl, please, an lmk.
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