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    Sous vide Chuck weekend project

    I wanted to try sous vide and smoking some beef, I have been reading all the posts about it that I see. I chose smoke-sous vide-smoke approach.
    I started with a 3 lb chuck roast that was about 3 inches thick. Dry brined overnight in the fridge, rubbed with bbbr and put in the stickburner with red oak at 225-250. I planned on about 4 hours. Turned into a 6 hour cook as errands took longer than expected. Returned home to IT of 139deg. Vacuum sealed and put into sous vide bath @ 155 for 22 hours. After a couple hours my wife told me that a bluebird was trying to nest in my smoker. I saw the male bird flying to the chimney of my cooker a couple times and the fire was not completely out yet.
    Since the cook was going to be running until the next day, I built a bluebird house in hopes of attracting them to it instead of my smoker. Within an hour of putting it up they were investigating the new house.
    Day 2 - I watched them carry nesting material from the yard to the bird house.
    Chuck roast came out of bath at noon. Ice bath for a quick cool down. I lit an oak fire again and shot for a pit temp of 300-350 for a quick heat without a stall.
    Worked like a charm-steady IT temp rise to 195. The first time I used a Christmas gift of Webber Igrill with 2 probes. The graph shows a perfect steady climb. Click image for larger version

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    Now for the good stuff-pics of the meal. Click image for larger version

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    thin blue smoke @ 305 deg.
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    Bluebirds new home.
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    Bark on chuck!
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    Sliced on the bacon slicer.
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    Salad that my wife made with homegrown lettuce and out house cured bacon.
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    Plated. Turned out very much like brisket. And lots of leftovers for the lunchbox this week.
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    #2
    Looks great. I can almost smell it!

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    #3
    Nice work! Cool story throwing the bluebird adventures in there. Glad it didn't turn into 'thin bluebird smoke'.

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    • Oakgrovebacon
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      I wasn't able to get a pic of the birds, they stayed a little to far for them to show up in a photo. They just appeared at our place on Sunday.

    #4
    Nice bird house and diner even looks better

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    #5
    That looks like a winner.

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    #6
    Beautiful pictures. Gorgeous stick burner. Great looking food. How can you beat that??? Well done sir!

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    • Oakgrovebacon
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      Thank you! I have a tendency to build things - homemade stick burner.

    #7
    What fun cook! We would call that thing on your fence a cat feeder around here.

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    • Oakgrovebacon
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      My wife's dog keeps the cats far enough away that the birds will be safe there.

    #8
    Had a problem with mud daubers in one of mine. Hadn't used it in a while, they built a nest inside the top of the stack. Man they were pissed when I fired that puppy up. Anyway, glad your birds found a new home. Good job on the chuckie !!!

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    • Oakgrovebacon
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      Thanks Troutman!

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