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    My first cook…

    I fired up the E6 tonight. While my cook sucked, I am blown away by this cooker. I lit a half chimney of charcoal, and cooked the meat, then a good while after I pulled the meat, I went out to put on the corn pudding and spam. Oh cool! The temp gauge was still at 250! So I opened it up, and there was very little charcoal left. But it was like a Thermos in holding the heat. Wow! So I had to light a few more coals to cook the corn pudding and spam.

    The pork belly was beautiful! The brisket was terrible. I was given a couple tiny 3/4’ to 1” thick slabs of meat the butcher had cut out of my friend’s steer. They thought it looked different than my briskets, but he insisted this was how you cut a brisket. (Typical for butchers around here. Some of these guys can hack and grind meat, but that’s about it.)

    There was no marbling at all. I took it to 208 before I gave up and sliced it and put it in the InstantPot for 25 minutes. It was still tough. Didn’t taste very good either. Not sure what I should have done.

    At least the pork belly was great. Perfection, in fact! I can’t wait to put a real brisket on this thing. As rock steady as it held, it’s gotta be a fantastic brisket smoking machine.

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    Look at the color on those bellies! Yum!
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      #3
      Simply marvelous!

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        #4
        Dang man those bellies!!!!!

        I hear you on the brisket. I cooked one for my pastor that appeared to be a maze of multiple muscles going every which way but loose and weighed a whopping 4 pounds, I think. It likely came off a 500 pound calf.

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          #5
          Spam, if it can cook spam I'm sold.
          Next try Spam burnt ends with a sweet rub.
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            #6
            I’m not listening to any of this…I wish I wasn’t so stubborn!

            That looks simply fantastic! I have cooker envy and I just don’t get that very often
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            • Andrrr
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              Andrrr commented
              January 24, 2023, 10:55 AM
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              A kamado would serve you well in these cold winter months!
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            • Allon
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              Allon commented
              January 27, 2023, 03:28 PM
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              Of coarse you're not listening to this...

              You're reading this!

              😉
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            #7
            +1 on those beautiful pictures!

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              #8
              Nice cook, despite the onery brisket. That pork belly is gorgeous.

              Good to hear you're liking your new toy.

              Kathryn

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              • BBQandLove
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                BBQandLove commented
                January 24, 2023, 06:02 PM
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                Thank you. I don’t know what was going on with that brisket. It didn’t even taste good. I had a bad feeling about it when they handed it to me. I don’t know… It was the weirdest thing.
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              Congrats on your first cook!

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                #10
                That bellie look great!

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                  #11
                  Looks great!

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                    #12
                    Great looking pork belly. I have never cooked one, wife doesn't seem very excited about tasting one. I will have to give it a try.
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                      Love my Weber Summit!
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                        Some chunks of meat are just that way no matter what you do. Of course if I tell my wife it was the meat - not my cook she's likely to roll her eyes and give me one of those "yeah right" looks.
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                        • BBQandLove
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                          BBQandLove commented
                          January 28, 2023, 04:28 PM
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                          It also tasted pretty pathetic. Edible, but just barely . Really weird. If I was a beginner, I would be discouraged. But I’ve cooked many many briskets with success
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